Campaign launched to teach all school children CPR

The British Heart Foundation have launched a campaign to get all children to learn CPR so if they have to, they can save somebody's life.

In March, Bolton football player Fabrice Muamba had a cardiac arrest on the pitch. He was given CPR to survive. A cardiac arrest is when your heart stops pumping blood around your body.
Each year, about 27,000 people in the UK die from a cardiac arrest outside hospital and the British Heart Foundation thinks this could be cut if more people knew CPR.

CPR (short for cardiopulmonary resuscitation) isn't currently compulory in the school curriculum (at the moment) but some schools still do teach it. It is when you press down on someone's chest rythmically and you have to be trained in order tob do it safely.
The Department for Education says it's down to head teachers to decide if they want to teach CPR in their schools. If your school doesn't teach CPR, you can still learn it outside school, through organisations such as the Scouts and St John Ambulance.