Sister's CPR training helps save brother's life

Arisha Karren, shown here with her brother, Kade, and their parents, Sherrie and Rob, pose for a group photo. Just one week after she earned her CPR certification, the high school sophomore used those skills to help save her brother's life.

Arisha Karren had just received her CPR certification a week earlier. A soft-spoken teen with a life-long interest in the medical profession, completing this training as part of her high school's health occupations class was simply a logical step to enter this field.

It just never dawned on her that these life-saving skills would be needed so quickly.

On what has started out as a typical weekend, the 16-year-old sprang into action to help save the life of her brother, Kade.

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