CPR
From dangerous active shooter events, to ET3, Ebola, opioids and community paramedicine, EMS providers faced many significant incidents and evolving trends in the 2010s
Our co-hosts discuss a news story out of Tennessee that could have implications for EMS providers who administer medication
After losing her daughter, 14, to cardiac arrest during soccer practice she hopes the event raised awareness of hands-only CPR and promoted a bill to teach the technique to middle and high school students.
Firefighters and medics attempted to revive the infant, but were not successful
The 13-year-old rushed to start a CPR technique that he’d learned in school, after his father suffered a sudden heart-attack
Thirteen devices will be available for youth sports teams, churches and anyone CPR-certified after a Ga. couple’s son died while an AED was locked up inside a nearby school
After administrating CPR during the incident a fellow educator is using her EMT certification to spread awareness among students
Sheri Sklar teaches CPR at a medical center, and said learning an early response saved her father’s life makes it that much more important
Two exercise physiologists on the plane had been at a heart-health conference; they noticed the man had no pulse and grabbed an AED to shock his heart
He was “pretty rattled” after trying to save a man lying in an intersection as he was driving home from a dentist appointment
She heard yelling and performed CPR on a 3-year-old in the water; the 20-year-veteran was at the beach at the right time thanks to her son
They sprang to action when he went into cardiac arrest on the Virginia Beach boardwalk
Studies also explore alternatives to trauma center transports, and the use of nasal fentanyl by EMS
Compression depth increased from 1.78 to 2.15 inches; pre-shock pause decreased from 27 to 16 seconds; and mean ventilation rate fell from nearly 12 to 9.5 per minute
The research counters assumptions that CPR beyond 20 minutes is “futile”
EMS providers taught nearly 100 people CPR in a flash mob-style training in Santa Barbara
Grant funded program aims to improve bystander CPR and cardiac arrest survival in Bozeman, Mont.
Sudden cardiac arrest researchers from 10 North American communities investigate prehospital interventions for sudden cardiac arrest
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A man died of a heart attack on a Southwest flight; his wife said there was a defibrillator on board but it wasn’t used because her husband’s chest was too hairy
People tried to dig her out but the sand kept collapsing; police and then medics performed CPR once she was pulled free
Officials are encouraging CPR and AED training after a county treasurer went into cardiac arrest at her office
Learn hands-only CPR to deliver chest compressions to a person who is unresponsive
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