PHOTOS: Students get hands-on with life-saving machine
Students at Riverside Community School in Prince Albert learned a valuable and possibly life-saving skill.
On Thursday, Lyle Karasiuk with Parkland Ambulance visited the school to demonstrate and install an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) machine. The machine was donated by Mike Horn on behalf of the Rock and Roads Cycling Club and the 2013 Pine Needles Mountain Bike Festival.
“We learned how to use an AED,” said Grade 8 student Regan Carriere-Robillard. “If somebody passes out and they’re not breathing then we can use the AED.”
Her classmate Zach Sewap took part in one of the demonstrations and said he now feels confident to use an AED in an emergency.