Lee Anna Duplechain, RN, BSN

Keeping Our Youth Heart Healthy and Mentally Sound

About 310,000 coronary heart disease deaths occur out-of-hospital or in emergency departments each year in the United States. Of those deaths, about 166,200 are due to sudden cardiac arrest – nearly 450 per day.* Without immediate, effective CPR from a bystander, a person’s chance of surviving sudden cardiac arrest decreases 7 percent to 10 percent per minute. Unfortunately, on average, less than one-third of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims receive bystander CPR, which can double or triple a person’s chance of surviving cardiac arrest. Lee Anna Duplechain, RN, BSN, an in-service educator at Memorial, discusses bystander CPR and the use of AEDs (Automated External Defibulators).

For more information about Basic Life Support or Advanced Cardiac Life Support training, call Memorial’s Education Department at (337) 494-3218

A graduate of McNeese State University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Lee Anna Duplechain, RN, BSN, began her career in the Critical Care Unit at Memorial in 1985. Since 1988, she has been teaching Basic Life Support and Advanced Cardiac Life Support, most recently as in-service educator at Memorial. She has served on the local American Heart Association Board of Directors, the Automatic External Defibulator taskforce, and as a member of the Mass CPR training committees.

Frances Yeager

4 / 28 / 2010