“I Don’t Want You to Die of Doubt”
Minnesotan Jerry Chiaverini was out riding his bike this summer when he started feeling what he thought was indigestion. Fortunately, however, his wife, Lora Lee, a registered nurse with St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth, had recently seen the American Heart Association’s new campaign, Don’t Die of Doubt . Lora Lee convinced Jerry that he needed to go to the emergency department. A week later he was having triple bypass surgery. [...]
Top 5 Reasons to Get CPR Training Now
1. CPR saves lives. More than 300,000 people have cardiac arrests in the United States every year. 2. CPR is not performed enough. Bystander CPR is done is less than half of all out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. 3. You don’t have to do mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Another reason people say they do not perform CPR is because they don't want to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. 4. Hands-only CPR is easy to learn. Place the heel of your hand [...]
Learn CPR
Cardiac arrests are more common than you think, and they can happen to anyone at any time. Nearly 424,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur annually in the United States and only about 10.4% survive.
In a HURRY, don’t have time to sit through a class? Take the on Line (E-Learn) CPR Course, Followed by the skills session with a Health First instructor.
A skills session is the hands-on portion of an AHA eLearning course and includes Parts 2 and 3 - skills practice and testing. It is conducted in-person after a student completes Part 1 online. Skills sessions are conducted by AHA BLS Instructors. Go to http://www.onlineaha.org Sign up for the course you are looking for. Complete the On Line course and print the certificate of completion. Make an appointment with Health [...]
FAST ACTION CAN SAVE A LIFE
Fast action can save lives. It’s a good idea to know what to do if someone experiences a heart attack or cardiac arrest. You can learn how to help save a life at sign up for a class today...
HANDS-ONLY™ CPR CAN SAVE LIVES
HOW TO GIVE HANDS-ONLY CPR. If you see a teen or adult suddenly collapse, call 9-1-1 and push hard and fast in the center of the chest to the beat of the classic disco song "Stayin' Alive." CPR can more than double a person's chances of survival, and "Stayin' Alive" has the right beat for Hands-Only CPR.
In a Hurry? take the on Line CPR Course, Followed by the skills session with a Health First instructor.
A skills session is the hands-on portion of an AHA eLearning course and includes Parts 2 and 3 — skills practice and testing. It is conducted in-person after a student completes Part 1 online. Skills sessions are conducted by AHA BLS Instructors. GO to http://www.onlineaha.org Sign up for the course you are looking for. Complete the On Line course and print the certificate of completion. Make an appointment with Health [...]
In a Hurry? take the on Line CPR Course, Followed by the skills session with a Health First instructor.
A skills session is the hands-on portion of an AHA eLearning course and includes Parts 2 and 3 — skills practice and testing. It is conducted in-person after a student completes Part 1 online. Skills sessions are conducted by AHA BLS Instructors. GO to http://www.onlineaha.org Sign up for the course you are looking for. Complete the On Line course and print the certificate of completion. Make an appointment with Health [...]
Bystanders CPR
Less than one-third of sudden cardiac arrest victims are administered immediate CPR from bystanders. Through a variety of programs, the American Heart Association is equipping people and communities to act in emergencies and ultimately save lives.
88 Percent of cardiac arrests occur at home
Anyone can learn CPR – and everyone should! Sadly, 70 percent of Americans may feel helpless to act during a cardiac emergency because they either do not know how to administer CPR or their training has significantly lapsed. This alarming statistic could hit close to home, because home is exactly where 88 percent of cardiac arrests occur. Put very simply: The life you save with CPR is mostly likely to [...]
Women and Heart Disease
'I thought I had the flu'. Even though heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women, women often chalk up the symptoms to less life-threatening conditions like acid reflux, the flu or normal aging. “They do this because they are scared and because they put their families first,” Goldberg said. “There are still many women who are shocked that they could be having a heart attack.” A heart attack [...]