Archive for July, 2015
Keep the Beat, Learn Hands-Only CPR
Learn the two simple steps of Hands-Only CPR if you witness a teen or adult suddenly collapse: Call 9-1-1 and Push Hard and Fast in the Center of the Chest until Help Arrives. Please share our video of this family dinner scene turned disco party as they dance to Street Corner Symphony’s a cappella version […]
With help from bystanders, cardiac arrest outcomes improving.
FOX News Article. More people are stepping up to the plate when they see others suffer cardiac arrest, according to two new studies. And the increase in the number of bystanders providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has been tied to better outcomes of the usually fatal condition, researchers report in JAMA. “In terms of outcomes we […]
AHA, Laerdal Medical to continue 45-year relationship.
By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS The American Heart Association and Laerdal Medical have agreed to a five-year extension of a strategic alliance between the two organizations. The AHA board of directors approved the extension on Thursday. The extension is to the decade-long formal strategic alliance between AHA and Laerdal signed in 2005. However, the organizations […]