AED - Automated External Defibrillators

What is your response time? CERT Team Members, EMS, and others know the need to respond immediately to life-threatening situations. Do you? Preparedness begins with You While anyone trained in CPR & AED use knows that the window of lifesaving is mere minutes, it is important that all our readers understand that this can be the case in other emergencies as...

Your workplace should be prepared to care for employees and guests in an emergency, up to and including resources for sheltering in place, rescue operations, and first aid care. Your local EMS and CERT Teams train to assist and care for the community in an emergency. Are you all set? Not nearly. You, and only you can assure your own...

During CPR & AED Awareness Week, we thought we'd share this interesting new concept on heart-health and living longer... shop 'til you don't drop! Walking is a great way to be physically active because it doesn’t require special skills or expensive equipment. Walking is a way to gently raise your heart rate, build endurance, increase respiratory health, and keep healthy...

Can you save a life? Can the person next to you? Share lifesaving information during CPR/AED Awareness Week! Anatomy 101 for CPR CPR Saves 100,000 lives Today Now this is really CPR 101! When to Start and Stop CPR Cough CPR CPR? Choking? Art? Confusion? Older Americans means deeper considerations around CPR & Lifesaving Measures To Save a Life with...

It is the 8th annual CPR & AED Awareness Week. We, and our Partners American CPR Training® recognize the entire Month of June as CPR & AED Awareness Month as such vital lifesaving skills and devices cannot be considered fora mere week. Plan ahead… start now! Keep yourself and others AWARE! You don’t know when or where you will be...

Make a Splash for Pool Safety during Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Does your Community Pool have an AED? AEDs (Automated External Defibrillators) save lives. Many think that AEDs can't be used around water, and that's not true. You simply do not want a victim to be lying in a pool of standing water. But CPR alone rarely resuscitates a...

Safety Managers, CPR & First Aid Instructors, and Organizations are gearing up for CPR & AED Awareness Month in June. Get your plan together now. Are you currently certified? Schedule a CPR & AED Class for your group and your location during CPR & AED Awareness Month. Already Certified? Give your Team CPR Protection - CPR keychain masks from under...

Everyone knows safety training is important. Everyone also knows that there are other things they’d rather be doing. Safety training takes workers off of the job site and that can be costly, as well as a distraction, affecting information retention and reducing the effectiveness of your training sessions. The remedy isn’t longer sessions or more thorough testing. The solution is...

With regard to SCA / Sudden Cardiac Arrest, heredity does play a significant factor. According to international health studies, more than 50% of all deaths worldwide are due to cardiovascular disease. For the most part, this means heart attacks. Cardiac Arrest is the greatest killer of modern times; more people die of heart attacks than die of cancer, AIDS, Ebola, TB...

OK - Today being April Fool's Day. perhaps we exaggerated that headline a bit - nevertheless, even though CPR goes back to the 18th century, not enough people know how to perform CPR. According to the American Heart Association, nearly 383,000 out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrests occur annually, and 88 percent of cardiac arrests occur at home. Many victims appear healthy...