Volunteers and participants gathered outside the Melville Library’s Starbucks on October 18 to participate in a Hands-Only CPR (HOCPR) training session.

By the end of the event, 263 people on Stony Brook University’s campus were trained.

Hundreds from the campus community participated in the Hands-Only CPR training.

Coffee for Compressions, a new community engagement program, provides an opportunity for those nearby to learn about HOCPR training and test their chest compressions on a feedback manikin to earn a Starbucks gift card.

Participants were required to do two minutes of two-inch-deep compressions to receive a two-dollar gift card.

Colby Rowe, Trauma Center Education and Prehospital Outreach Coordinator, developed the idea for this incentive-based program. The Stony Brook Trauma Center was the lead team for the management of the event. Approximately 25 volunteers came from the Stony Brook Volunteer Ambulance Corps.

Learn more: http://www.stonybrook.edu/happenings/oncampus/coffee-for-compressions-increases-hands-only-cpr-training-at-stony-brook/