Cardiovascular disease and cardiac arrest remove thousands of people from our midst yearly, and most of them do not have advanced heart disease. Everyone that suffers a cardiac arrest requires quick CPR, and quick use of a AED (or defibrillator) to restore a normal heart rhythm. (That’s one of the main reasons we teach people …
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Walter Watts has a great “save” story, from a healthy college kid helping a professor grade papers. The video has a manufacturers slant since Walter has become a spokesman for Zoll since he was shocked back to life. Zoll does make a great AED, the shocking part of the defibrillator is about the same as …
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AEDs save lives. A person that suffers cardiac arrest really needs chest compressions started within 2 minutes, and ideally, an AED used to shock the heart within 5 minutes. Each minute that defivrillation is delayed reduces the CA victim’s chance of survival by 7%-10%. EMS does a great job, but, the fact is they …
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15-year-old student Devon Octave was without heartbeat for 7 minutes, after wrestling practice. The principal at his Hialeah, FL school, Rene Rovirosa, had taken a CPR class 6 days prior to his collapse, and performed CPR until EMT arrived with a defibrillator. Awesome story, and it’s far too common for young, healthy, athletic children …
DEATH IN THE AIR: 16 yr old teen in wheelchair suffers cardiac arrest and dies during Delta flight shortly after takeoff New York Daily News reports a 16-year-old boy who uses a wheelchair died half an hour into his first ever airplane flight Saturday morning in Spokane Wash. The unidentified boy suffered from multiple …
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This is a great true story of a life-saver. A 9-yr old GA boy tells his Mom how to perform CPR, which she does on baby, to save baby’s life. How did the 9-year old know? He memorized an illustrated poster on wall at Elem. School, as a result 2-month old baby lives. http://gawker.com/5990841/9+year+old-boy-saves-babys-life-by-teaching-mother-how-to-perform-cpr …
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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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Continued FREE AED training, today with a unique, fully automatic AED, the PowerHeart G3 Automatic from Cardiac Science. There’s no ON button, so open the case to turn on. The pads are already connected to the unit, but you do have to place pads on a bare chest of victim. After AED analyzes the …
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Tips on EMS from Yuma, AZ Fires Dept. April 2013. Last week the Yuma Fire Department responded to 16 calls for unconscious people and 17 for chest pain/cardiac problems. Would you know what to do if someone went into cardiac arrest? According to the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center, every year more than 160,000 …
The “cardiac chain of survival” – is generally the steps that will determine if you’ll survive a cardiac arrest. There are three slightly different “Chains of Survival” for adults and a fourth for children. They mostlly contain these steps: 1) Early access to the Emergency Response System, 2) early CPR, 3) early defibrillation, and 4) …
Heart attack or cardiac arrest? A heart attack can be considered a circulation problem and occurs when the blood supply to the heart is either reduced or completely cut off. This can occur because of a blood clot or a narrowing of the arteries. When the heart muscle doesn’t receive blood, the lack of oxygen …
The cardiac chain of survival, is a common term in emergency medicine, safety, and health education circles – a term that is comprised of the steps that will determine if someone will survive a cardiac arrest, also the steps to improve your liklihood of survival. Those steps are: Early access to the Emergency Response System, …
For Healthcare Providers – this is a little technical. Want to improve survival rates, for in-hospital CA or out-of-hospital cardiac arrest? High Quality Compressions is the key. Here’s a great into video to “High Quality CPR”, a new emphasis from AHA (American Heart Association), ILCOR, and ECC. Enjoy the video and information. http://vimeo.com/67078631 …
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