The American Heart Association has moved the state’s first mobile CPR training kiosk to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). The life-saving skills gained by hands-only education available at the kiosk will help users understand how they can immediately help a person that experiences a cardiac arrest outside of a hospital. Sponsored by Genworth and its subsidiary CareScout, it will be located in the VCU student commons.

The kiosk features a touch screen with a video program that provides a brief introduction and overview of hands-only CPR, followed by a practice session and a 30-second test session. With the help of a practice mannequin or a rubber torso, the kiosk gives feedback about the depth and rate of compressions and proper hand placement, all factors that influence the effectiveness of CPR. The entire training takes five minutes or less.

Aaron J. Hart, Ed.D., vice president of student affairs at VCU, says, “We look forward to creating a campus of lifesavers like Nyla Harris, a VCU pre-med student who saved a life in a Midlothian restaurant earlier this year.”

For more information, visit Heart.org/nation.