AHA BLS for Healthcare Providers Location: Conference Room, 4046 Highway. 154 Newnan (just S of I-85 exit 51 (Storage XXtra) Date: Friday, Nov. 29, 2013 (that is Black Friday – get your shopping done early!). Time: 10:00 am – 1:30 pm Total Spaces: 8 American Heart Association BLS course is designed for healthcare providers (RNs, …
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AHA BLS for Healthcare Providers Location: Univ. of West GA (Newnan Center) Address: 7 Solar Circle Newnan, GA 30263 (that’s in Shenandoah Industrial Park – 1 mile north of Bullsboro on Amlajack) Date: Friday, Oct. 18, 2013 Time: 9:00 am – 12:30 pm Total Spaces: 10 This AHA CPR course is designed for healthcare …
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More FREE AED Training, at least to the extent read-only with pictures and no hands-on-the-AED provides AED training. This AED is a Defibtech Lifeline View. Can you see spot the On/Off button and shock button? The display (and pads) will show you where the pads go, then will switch to EKG. Steps to save a …
Heart Disease Facts from CDC (Centers for Disease Control) About 600,000 people die of heart disease in the United States every year–that’s 1 in every 4 deaths. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. More than half of the deaths due to heart disease in 2009 were in men. …
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Heart Attack Facts Knowing the facts about the leading cause of death in the United States can help empower you to make smarter heart health decisions and could even help save your life or the lives of the ones you love. More info and facts on heart attack in U.S. Cardiovascular disease is the …
What is bystander CPR? (1) Non-medical personnel performing chest compressions (or full CPR) on a cardiac arrest victim, prior to the arrival of EMT/paramedics/nurses. (2) Performed in less than 30% of cardiac arrest events (3) The key to a city/community/state getting their CA survival rates above 10% (4) Can be learned in approximately 30 minutes …
Hands-only CPR, also called Compressions-Only CPR (COCPR), is relatively new concept, just recommended since 2008. Recent studies have shown it is more effective than traditional CPR (compressions and mouth-mouth breaths) for lay responders,, in cases of a witnessed collapse of adult or teen. If you see a teen or adult collapse, that does not respond, …
Cough CPR – as the email goes (yea, I know you got it, too), “it’s 4:17 pm, you’re driving alone, and start experiencing severe chest pain that radiates out into your arm. You’re five miles from the hospital, so take a deep breath and cough every 2 seconds, all the way to the hospital, and …