Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – One hundred students from 11 to 14 are learning how to save a heart today, thanks to a course organized by the International School of Geneva and the Swiss Heart Foundation.
They’ll be working with Mini-Anne, a new lifesaving measures self-teaching doll.
The students are given a hands-on course in the lifesaving measures needed when confronted by someone suffering from heart or circulatory failure.
The course was organized after the school’s application was accepted for Project Help, a cantonal project to educate and involve young people in lifesaving programmes.
Some 8,000 people die every year of heart failure, in Switzerland.
Only 5 percent of those live if the problem occurs outside a hospital setting. Only 1-2 percent of the population knows what steps to take to help the victim.
Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Medtronic, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of cardiac stimulators, including pacemakers, is celebrating production of its three millionth device at its Tolochenaz plant. The research centre and manufacturing plant opened in 1996-97 and the first pacemakers made in Switzerland came out in May 1997. The company added a major global training centre in 2002 at the site. Medtronic’s devices also include neurostimulators.
