Telegraph, The (Nashua, NH)

November 21, 2005
Section: Community Features

NASHUA - Daniel Webster College hopes to train at least 75 to 100 individuals from the Nashua area annually on how to respond when a person has a heart attack. That training program was greatly enhanced when the National Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation and the New Hampshire New Car Dealers' Association presented a Resusci-Anne training unit to DWC on Oct. 21.

In presenting the CPR unit, which is essential for cardiopulmonary resuscitation training, John E. "Jack" Tulley, National Automobile Dealers Association Region I vice chairman and New Hampshire's NADA board of directors representative for the state's franchised new car dealers, said:

"If the right kind of treatment can be given to a heart attack victim within seconds after he or she is stricken, the chances are good that the life can be saved."

Added Daniel B. McLeod, president of the New Hampshire Automobile Dealers Association, "CPR training teaches a person how to keep the heart beating while professional help is coming."

Tulley is president of Tulley Buick-Pontiac-GMC-BMW-Mazda-Volkswagon in Nashua and has been an automobile dealer and NADA member since 1986.

Tulley noted that since the massive involvement of Americans who have trained in CPR, there has been an increase in long-term survivors from ventricular fibrillation. Training takes from three to five hours of intensive practice and lecture.

In accepting the CPR training unit, Christopher M. Rousseau, DWC campus safety officer and adjunct faculty instructor, explained the CPR unit gives signals telling when the trainee is applying the correct pressure in the right spot and breathing correctly into the "victim's" mouth. With that type of training, students learn the "feel" of giving quick, lifesaving emergency treatment.

The National Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation is part of the National Automobile Dealers Association, headquartered in McLean, Va. Its membership includes more than 19,000 franchised new car and truck dealers across the nation.

Illustration: Courtesy photo
Daniel Webster College's Emergency Medical Services Club, represented by aviation management sophomore Steve Lanieri and aviation flight operations junior Andrew Mason, accept the donation of a Resusci-Anne and other emergency equipment from the National Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation and the New Hampshire New Car Dealers' Association, presented by John E. "Jack" Tulley, president of Tulley Buick-Pontiac-GMC-BMW-Mazda-Volkswagon. From left are Jamie Provencher, director of campus safety at DWC; Lanieri; Mason; and Tulley.