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• Remember 2 Things: Pit crew techniques – defibrillator pads

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  In this episode of Remember 2 Things, Steve Whitehead stresses the importance of learning how to run a cardiac arrest with maximum efficiency. In this video, he describes two ways of getting defibrilator pads on the patient's chest faster and more accurately. 

• Remember 2 Things: Become a better compressor

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  In this episode of Remember 2 Things, Steve Whitehead discusses the importance of high-quality, uninterrupted chest compressions, and two things providers should remember when administering them to cardiac arrest patients. 

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• Off-duty Wis. fire chief helps save man in cardiac arrest

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  Chief Steven Davis said a woman in his neighborhood knocked on his door and said her son-in-law was not breathing

• Bolstering the EMS role in the community through mobile integrated healthcare

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  A closed-loop, full-spectrum and comprehensive health information exchange validates the difference EMS makes for patient outcomes

• EMS World Expo Quick Take: How to care for lay responders who perform CPR

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  Diffusing and debriefing lay responders can mitigate traumatic stress and reduce the risk of post-traumatic injury from the experience of performing CPR

• App alerted good Samaritan to man in cardiac arrest

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  The app, PulsePoint, allows users to view and receive alerts on calls being responded to by fire departments and emergency medical services

• Citizen CPR Foundation aims to improve SCA survival rates

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  Citizen CPR Foundation officials announced new strategies to increase the survival rate of sudden cardiac arrest victims

• Article Bites: To tube or not to tube in cardiac arrest?

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  Investigators studied favorable neurological outcomes in cases where paramedics were randomized to use endotracheal intubation or supraglottic airways

• Fla. EMS chief hospitalized after cardiac arrest

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  Lake County Fire Rescue EMS Chief Dan Miller is in critical condition after experiencing cardiac arrest

• First responders witness fatal stabbing while performing CPR

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  Emergency crews heard a struggle in an adjacent room while they were performing CPR on a man who had suffered a heart attack and called the police for assistance

• Crowdsourcing the AHA Chain of Survival with Amazon’s Alexa

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  Researchers have taught Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri to recognize the unique auditory signature of agonal breathing that heralds early cardiac arrest

• New tech in ambulances gives real-time monitoring capabilities to Ark. first responders

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  The Bella Vista Fire and EMS Department among first in the nation to launch cerebral oximetry machines in two of its ambulances

• 1 dead, 8 children injured in Miss. school bus crash

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  Authorities believe the bus driver suffered a medical emergency before the bus crashed and ended up on its side in a ditch

• EMTs, ED staff shock Ohio man's heart 34 times

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  Dr. Gregory Stefano credited the Hiram EMS crew for playing a large role in saving the life of Frank Briggs

• Ambulance response time a factor in Miss. wrongful death suit

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  In 2018, Elizabeth Neal experienced congestive heart failure and an ambulance did not arrive on the scene until an hour after the call went out

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