Tiffany Greene, Your Kids

Technique is everything when doing CPR. It is the very thing that could save someone's life.

"The most important part of CPR is good, hard, fast chest compressions, and that's pushing down about 2 1/2 inches at a rate of about 100 per minute," said EMS community relations director Mike Willingham.

Willingham pumped this valuable information to students across Central Florida.

"A lot of people have been dying, because they don't have immediate care, and they're putting these heart defribrilators around, and it's been saving a lot of lives," said Cyndra Kohlfeldt, a student at West Shore Junior/Senior High School.

"I think I could do it now," said Karl Krehbiel, a West Shore student, when asked if students would be prepared to save "real" lives. "If someone were to 'keel over' as they say, I could properly get down and provide them with CPR until the emergency workers arrived."

Willingham said while technique is important, the key to CPR is maintaining composure in the face of a real life situation.

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