CPR
Our co-hosts discuss a news story out of Tennessee that could have implications for EMS providers who administer medication
In the coming years, EMS will be engaged in even more efforts to triage patients in the field to route them to the most appropriate hospitals
Test your knowledge of different types of airway adjuncts, contraindications, monitoring techniques and more
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.
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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
The garbage collector wants to find and thank the mystery medic who saw him collapse from a heart attack and began CPR
The boy was taken to a hospital in serious condition but is expected to survive
He received an EMS Hero Award after a hysterical mother knocked on his door with her 2-month-old baby who wasn’t breathing
‘Hangover’ actor Ken Jeong stars in a CPR clip, and footage of a collision shows neither an ambulance nor a woman at a stop sign slowing down
He was working out when the app PulsePoint alerted him on his phone that someone in the parking oh his health club had suffered sudden cardiac arrest
A councilman proposed using a $450K grant over three years to buy 60 defibrillators and place them in public buildings across the county
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