Do you provide corporate onsite CPR training for your employees and coworkers? If not, you should think about looking into CPR training programs and seeing if it’s something that your employees would be interested in. CPR training is important and useful for everyone, no matter their age or profession. The skills were once limited to lifeguards and medical professionals, but now more and more people are learning how to perform CPR because of the great benefits that the training can provide. Here are some of the biggest benefits of corporate onsite CPR training. If you’re interested in providing training to your employees, contact us today.
- Giving Your Employees Confidence
The idea of being thrust in a situation where you have to save someone’s life is very intimidating for most people. Without an understanding of CPR and training, many people feel helpless in these situations, and even if these situations never occur, the fact that they don’t know how to act can make them less confident. After completing CPR training, your employees will feel more confident because they know that they could potentially save someone’s life during an emergency.
- Team-Building and Leadership
Whenever your team has to work together, learn something new, and take on a new task, it’s a great opportunity for team-building in the office. Office safety is a fantastic project that can bring together employees from different departments and parts of an office, allowing them to collaborate and work together. Corporate onsite CPR training and first aid training can be part of these types of projects, or can be a great way to kick off an office safety program.
- AED and First Aid Training
CPR programs do not focus solely on how to provide CPR. These programs can also teach your employees how to provide first aid and how to use an automated external defibrillator. This type of training will give your employees the skills to respond in any type of emergency situation in the workplace.
- Saving Lives at Work
Ultimately, you provide corporate onsite CPR training so that your employees can use it if there is ever an emergency. Immediate CPR and defibrillation can be the difference between someone living or dying, so it’s extremely important that someone nearby is trained and ready to help. Only about 10% of people who suffer sudden cardiac arrest are able to survive by the time they reach the hospital. Providing CPR and defibrillation correctly and right away can double or even triple a person’s chance of surviving.
- CPR for Families and Children
Not only will CPR training make the office safer, it will also make your employees’ homes much safer in the event of an emergency. Almost 90% of sudden cardiac arrests occur in the home, and with the proper training, your employees will be able to perform CPR on loved ones and family members. This type of training is especially important if family members have heart problems or if there are young children in the household. If a child has an issue, someone trained in CPR will know how to adjust the technique to make it more effective on a child.
These are just a few of the many benefits of corporate onsite CPR training. Your employees will be very grateful to you for providing corporate onsite CPR training, and the program will be very beneficial for your organization as well. Corporate onsite CPR training programs can be customized to include AED and first aid training, and they can be scheduled to be more convenient for a busy office with lots of deadlines. Contact us for more information.
Sources:
http://www.cprcpr.com/5-benefits-of-learning-cpr-in-san-jose/
]]>First things first, can you tell the difference between cardiac arrest and a heart attack?
Cardiac arrest is a disturbance in the firing of electrical nodes within the heart which catalyze the heartbeat. This results in arrhythmia or an irregular heartbeat. Within seconds of the heart ceasing to function, a person will become unresponsive and barely able to breathe.
Death will occur within minutes if treatment is not administered immediately.
CPR, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, forces oxygen into the lungs that is then circulated by simulating a “pumping” action on the chest. This process must continue until the patient is able to breathe on his or her own, or until first responders arrive on the scene. If an AED, or Automated External Defibrillator, is available, this is a life-saving tool that provides direct electrical shock to the heart.
The AHA recommends early defibrillation within the first three minutes of a cardiac arrest.
A heart attack, on the other hand, may begin with a feeling of weakness, nausea or numbness from decreased circulation due to a blocked artery. Although the patient may collapse from pain or weakness, or appear unresponsive, it is not appropriate to begin CPR as the heart is still beating (although faintly) and the person may still be able to breathe on his or her own.
CPR training is indispensable for your family and your workplace. These lifesaving techniques can only be applied if you are there – ready and willing – to identify the problem and to take action. Contact us to design a training session for you and your family that will give you the tools and the confidence you will need at a moments notice.
(1) http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/General/Cardiac-Arrest-versus-Heart-Attack-Infographic_UCM_450698_SubHomePage.jsp
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English: CPR training with Welch Allyn AED 20 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
While you’re at home, something happened and someone you care about suddenly went into cardiac arrest. You call 911, of course, but you are concerned that professional help just may not arrive in time. You know that when blood circulation or breathing stops, every passing second counts. You know that oxygen deprivation of the brain, if allowed to last from four to seven minutes, usually lead to permanent, irreversible brain damage and even death. You haven’t undergone any CPR training yet, so what do you do in this kind of emergency situation? According to the American Heart Association (AHA), you should perform hands-only or external cardiac compression CPR immediately. In fact, since you are untrained, this may be the only CPR technique that you can safely do on your own while waiting for the professional rescuers to get there and take over.
Here is how you can properly administer chest compression CPR:
1. Make sure the cardiac arrest victim is positioned on his or her back on a hard, flat and even surface, then kneel near his or her neck and shoulders.
2. Place the heel of one hand over the victim’s sternum or breastbone. Place the other hand on top of the first hand and interlace your fingers. If the victim is a baby or a toddler, use two fingers in place of your hands. Make sure that your shoulders are directly over your hands to give you sufficient leverage when you push.
3. Extend your elbows and use your weight to press down hard on the victim’s chest. Your aim is to compress the victim’s chest at least two inches inward. Release and allow the chest to recoil. Repeat the press-and-release cycle.
4. Press hard and fast non-stop at a rate of 100 compressions per minute. To help you stay in pace with the required compression rate per minute, the AHA recommends that you play the “Stayin’ Alive” Bee Gees song in our head so that you can push in sync with that song’s tempo of 103 beats per minute. If there is somebody else with you, try to change places every 2 to 3 minutes to prevent fatigue due to the fast pace of the chest compression CPR until medical help finally arrives, or until you see clear signs that the victim has recovered from the cardiac arrest.
When you administer chest compression CPR, you are from the outside basically just manually pumping oxygenated blood inside the victim’s chest from the heart to the aorta and from there to the brain and other vital organs. The aim is only to delay the onslaught of tissue damage until more advance first aid procedures can be administered by a trained professional rescue worker. By itself, there is no assurance that a timely hand-only CPR will save a victim from death or permanent brain damage. In cases where the cardiac arrest is caused by arrhythmia or rapid and irregular heart beats, chest compression CPR will only give a narrow window of opportunity until electric shock from an automated external defibrillator (AED) can be made applied by the 911 call responder to induce the heart to re-establish its normal beat.
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