Be the Beat, the American Heart Association's new online cardiac arrest awareness campaign, teaches teens fun ways to learn the basics of CPR and how to use an automated external defibrillator or AED. Through the use of video games,interactive quizzes and songs, teens and tweens learn what to do if someone collapses in sudden cardiac arrest.
The Be the Beat website teaches teens through:

“Be the Beat is helping to create the next generation of lifesavers by empowering teens and tweens to act when they see someone suddenly collapse,” said Michael Sayre, M.D., chair of the American Heart Association’s Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee. “Sadly, far too many people are dying from cardiac arrest – we want this campaign to inspire people to help save lives.”
The Be the Beat website teaches teens through:
- Instructional videos that demonstrate conventional CPR with breaths, Hands-Only CPR and how to use an AED.
- Virtual tour through a 3-D animated version of the heart. Teens earn points by playing video games and taking quizzes.
- Teens create avatars, track and compare their scores in the Heart Track Experience and veiw profiles of other participants.
- A downloadable playlist of 100 beat-per-minute songs
- Free printable stickers, T-shirt decals, stationary, downloadable widgets and wallpapers.

















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