Effort to train 1 million in bystander CPR crosses 100,000 mark

High school students practiced hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation in downtown San Diego Thursday, their efforts literally pushing toward the goal of training 1 million people across San Diego County in lifesaving techniques that new findings from UC San Diego estimate could save nearly 500 local lives over five years. Run by San Diego Project Heart Beat, the training session for 35 students at E3 High School is among many existing efforts across the county recently pulled together under the banner of Revive & Survive, a new collaborative effort to increase CPR...