We are excited to be partnering with Arkansas Children's Hospital to help Folsom Elementary become a Project ADAM-trained facility. Project ADAM® - Arkansas Heart Safe Schools aims to save lives by preventing sudden cardiac death (SCD) through education and implementation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillator (AED) programs in schools and community settings.
Project ADAM began in 1999 after a series of sudden deaths among high school athletes in Wisconsin and Georgia. Many of these deaths appeared to be due to ventricular fibrillation – heart arrest caused by abnormal, sustained electrical stimulation of the heart muscle. Project ADAM began after Adam Lemel, a 17-year-old Whitefish Bay, WI, high school student, collapsed and died while playing basketball. Adam's parents, Patty Lemel-Clanton and Joe Lemel collaborated with Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and the Herma Heart Center to create this program in Adam's memory.
We wanted to make everyone aware that this Friday, September 1st, we will be participating in a Project ADAM drill with our Cardiac Emergency Response Team. As a part of this drill, all our local emergency services- Fire, ambulance, and police will be present on our campus. #Cardstudentsareworthit