With a sharp inward and upward thrust – just like I have been teaching for nearly ten-years, but have never actually done – the foreign body ejected from the “airway” and flew about five feet across the room. I had just relieved the obstruction – a small foam plug – from the Act+Fast Anti-Choking Trainer […]
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Fifty years ago CPR was invented by combining mouth-to-mouth resuscitation with chest compressions to create cardiopulmonary resuscitation. While a lot has changed in the last fifty years the underlying concepts of applying external mechanical force to assist circulation with the goal of coronary and cerebral perfusion remains the same. Information from the AHA on 50 […]
In a three episode series the EMSEduCast podcast focused on sudden cardiac arrest. Episode 43 – journal club focus on sudden cardiac arrest research. Discussion about a set of articles related to sudden cardiac arrest resuscitation, implementation of the American Heart Association 2005 Emergency Cardiac Care Guidelines, and the concept of a Resuscitation specialty centers. […]
This is a guest post by Steve Lichtenberg. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. Can you teach children CPR? The short answer is yes. There are a few differences when teaching children as opposed to adults. Children will take the whole process very seriously and are more […]
Dr. Mickey Eisenberg is the guest for the January 20 episode of the EMSEduCast. We are looking forward to Dr. Eisenberg’s second visit on the EMSEduCast to discuss factors associated with survival from sudden cardiac arrest. To get ready for this newest episode of the EMSEduCast follow these Everyday EMS Tips: 1. Listen to EMSEduCast […]
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Video: Zoll E-Series Monitor
My friends at the ChroniclesofEMS.com produced this excellent video of the features in the Zoll E-Series Monitor. Mark and Justin show off good CPR technique and just a bit of breathlessness – as they should – after doing CPR. It is a lot of work and a new rescuer should rotate in every 2 minutes. […]
A common question from students in classroom training programs, especially when I teach CPR, goes something like this: “My last instructor told me that sometimes they go through the motions of doing CPR, even when they know it is futile, for the benefit of the family. Do you ever go through the motions?” Many times […]
Everyday EMS Tips reader Marty from Connecticut sent me this article about a Brooklyn NY man who arrested at the hospital and was successfully resuscitated and discharged neurologically intact. The patient and his doctor’s call this a miracle. Certainly it is a noteworthy event because of the time length and interventions involve but I wonder […]
This is a guest post by Jeanette Kozlowski. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. While iPhones have been known to save a social life or two, who’d a thought you could use the decade’s trendiest gadget to save real lives, too? Inspired by Mashable’s list of “7 […]
This is a guest post by Steve Lichtenberg. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. After I wrote a set of tips becoming a better CPR instructor reader Steve Lichtenberg asked to contribute a post of teaching tips to help instructors take the next level. Steve writes: If […]