Tennessee latest state to mandate automatic defibrillators at high schools
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell joined Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday to celebrate Tennessee’s new law requiring all high schools to keep an automated external defibrillator available during classes, athletic practices and games.
Lee signed the legislation earlier this year, but held a formal ceremony Tuesday marking the “Smart Heart Act” at Nashville’s Pearl-Cohn High School. Goodell is in Nashville for the NFL’s spring meetings.
According to the statute, any public school with grades nine through 12 must set, review and rehearse an emergency plan to be ready when students have a cardiac arrest or other life-threatening injury. The law also requires school personnel both on and off the field to have training in both CPR and in using AEDs.
Those are the three requirements the Smart Heart Sports Coalition wants adopted adopted in all 50 states since launching in March 2023. The coalition includes the NFL and other major sports leagues and health advocacy groups trying to prevent high school students from dying of sudden cardiac arrests.
Related articles
Elvis' granddaughter Riley Keough fights Graceland estate auction
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The granddaughter of Elvis Presley is fighting an attempt to publicly auction2024-05-22Judge clears former Kentucky secretary of state Alison Lundergan Grimes of ethics charges
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Former Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes has been cleared of2024-05-222 men are charged with cutting down famous 150
LONDON (AP) — Two men have been charged with cutting down the popular 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree2024-05-22Ahead of the Paris Olympics, police clear a migrant camp near City Hall
PARIS (AP) — French police evicted migrants from a makeshift tent-camp next to Paris City Hall early2024-05-22Ecuador: Fire department honors five rescue dogs during retirement
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Five rescue dogs were honored by Ecuador’s Fire Department on Monday at a cere2024-05-22‘Kraven the Hunter’ release delayed until December
The summer movie season may kick off next weekend, but the release calendar is still a work in progr2024-05-22
atest comment