CPR Training Is For You
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Health and Medical Professionals
• Doctors
• Emergency Medical Technicians
• Nurses
• Dentists & Dental Assistants
• Midwives
• Physical Therapists
• Chiropractors
• Acupuncturists
• Pharmacists
• Massage Therapists
Educators
• Teachers
• Childcare Providers
• Camp Counselors
• Parents
• Babysitters and Nannies
Sports and Fitness
• Lifeguards
• Swim Instructors
• Personal Trainers
• Group Fitness Instructors
• Sports Coaches and Volunteers
Public Safety
• Law Enforcement Agencies
• Fire Safety Personnel
• EMT
• Coast Guard
Community
• Hotel, Spa and Hospitality Organizations
• Restaurant Managers
• Students in public schools grades 9 through 12. According to New Jersey Assembly Bill A 2072, they are actually required to receive instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and use of an automated external defibrillator prior to graduation.
• YOU!
CPR Training Classes (and more!) At Oceanside CPR
Consider taking a CPR training class, BLS or AED training at Oceanside CPR. Our programs are excellent choices for both the community and workplace and teaches skills with research-proven Practice-While-Watching (PWW) technique, which allows instructors to observe the students, provide feedback and guide the students’ learning of skills.
As CPR instructors with over 25 years of experience, we are able to provide a relaxed and comfortable teaching environment, no matter what class you are looking for. Our goal is to prepare people with the confidence so they can perform CPR in any life-threatening emergency – Without Hesitation! Whether you are interested in attending a class, scheduling an on-site training or just have a general question, please don’t hesitate to contact us at (732) 616-2407.
]]>There are many different situations when CPR can potentially save a person’s life or minimize brain damage and other health problems. Though use of CPR is not always enough to guarantee a person’s survival, when used correctly, it can dramatically increase their chances. CPR training in NJ can help you learn how to identify these life-threatening situations and how to immediately respond. With CPR training in NJ, you’ll have to tools to potentially save the life of a friend, coworker, family member, or stranger.
Situations to Use CPR
When you see someone unconscious or collapsed on the ground, they may need CPR and other forms of assistance. CPR, also known as cardio pulmonary resuscitation, can help restore breathing and beating of the person’s heart and save their life. Individuals who complete AED and CPR training in NJ are better prepared to identify people who might need this type of help.
Some situations that may require CPR include drowning, suffocation, heart attack, allergic reaction, choking, and electric shock. One of the most common situations when CPR is needed is during sudden cardiac arrest. This occurs when a person’s heart suddenly stops beating. This is why it’s so important to check breathing and heartbeat when you encounter someone who looks unconscious.
Cardiac arrest typically happens after a person experiences an especially long or severe type of heart arrhythmia, which is when the heart beats in an irregular rhythm or too slowly or quickly. Anyone could have minor cases of arrhythmia, but some people experience arrhythmia more often or have more serious cases of arrhythmia, and this makes sudden cardiac arrest more likely. Some common causes of arrhythmia include:
Coronary Heart Disease
If you have coronary heart disease, your arteries slowly clog with cholesterol and other deposits. This reduces the amount of blood that can flow to your heart and affects the ability of your heart to beat at a proper rhythm.
Heart Attack
During a heart attack, a person may experience ventricular fibrillation, which is when the lower chambers of the heart wither but do not contract effectively. This is one of the most common causes of heart attacks and one of the most common reasons why people need CPR or AED. CPR training in NJ can teach you how to recognize when this is happening and help you provide treatment quickly and correctly.
Congenital Heart Disease
Some people are born with abnormalities in their heart, and this can make the risk of heart attack and arrhythmia higher. This can even affect adolescents and children and cause them to experience sudden cardiac arrest. When providing CPR to younger victims, it’s very important that the person understand what they are doing. Courses that provide CPR training in NJ teach participants how to provide CPR to different ages, so that you are always prepared during an emergency.
Problems With the Electrical System
Every person’s heart is controlled by electrical signals. These electrical signals tell the heart when to contract, how fast to contract, and how much to contract. When the electrical system is working correctly, the heart beats a normal rhythm, but sometimes the electrical systems stops working the way it’s supposed to. These types of problems are known as primary heart abnormalities. Though rare, there are some conditions that can cause these types of abnormalities such as long QT syndrome and Brugada’s syndrome.
These are only a few of the possible causes of arrhythmia and sudden cardiac arrest. There are many different reasons why a person may suddenly require medical attention, and that’s why CPR training in NJ is so important. Contact us to learn more about our programs and services.
Sources:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sudden-cardiac-arrest/basics/causes/con-20042982
]]>Today CPR is one of the most accepted and standardized techniques used by emergency responders, and corporate onsite CPR training is offered in almost every major company and business in the United States. Though this has been the case for decades, there was a time when the technique was less accepted by the public and the medical community.
Like other medical breakthroughs, CPR was not discovered all at once. Instead it was slowly studied and refined until it became the standardized life-saving procedure that it is today. From its beginnings in the 1700s, cardiopulmonary resuscitation has continued to evolve as doctors have learned more about the human body, and now it is an extremely effective way to provide emergency medical response to a person suffering from sudden cardiac arrest.
The Beginning
The first mentions of the procedures that would one day become CPR appeared in the middle of 18th century. The Paris Academy of Science began to endorse mouth-to-mouth resuscitation for drowning victims in 1740.
Around the same time, the Society for the Recovery of Drowned Persons was organized. This organizations was founded in Amsterdam in response to the hundreds of citizens who died by drowning in the canals every year. Though not all of the society’s ideas were medically accurate or effective, some of their practices were very similar to how CPR is performed today. These practices would spread to other organizations that provided medical assistance to drowning victims, but it would still be some time before doctors and others studied these techniques in detail.
In the next 150 years, the medical community learned more about the human body and began to study resuscitation. Finally at the end of the nineteenth century two doctors, Dr. Friedrich Maass and Dr. George Crile, independently documented the medical use of chest compressions to resuscitate someone who had drowned. Dr. Maass performed and documented chest compressions, and Dr. Crile had similar success in 1903. From then on, medical organizations adopted chest compressions as a way to revive those who had drowned.
Mouth-to-Mouth CPR
Then in the 1950s, there was another breakthrough in cardiopulmonary resuscitation research. Dr. Peter Safar, Dr. James Elam, and Dr. Archer Gordon were able to prove that mouth-to-mouth resuscitation could provide adequate oxygen to the body and increase the chance of survival of a drowning victim. In 1956, they developed techniques that made mouth-to-mouth CPR more effective, and soon these practices were adopted by the U.S. military and emergency medical services.
In 1960, the American Heart Association started to teach physicians how to perform CPR. In the next decades, the practice became more and more accepted. The first large scale CPR training occurred in Seattle, Washington in 1972. Leonard Cobb led the training program called “Medic 2” which trained more than 100,000 people in the program’s first two years.
CPR in Businesses
Businesses also started providing corporate onsite CPR training, so employees could perform the technique during an emergency, and this became more and more common. Corporate onsite CPR training is now found in many of the world’s largest corporations and businesses. Not only does it help make offices safer, but it’s also a great team-building and leadership opportunity for organizations.
If you are interested in corporate onsite CPR training, there are many ways that you can provide training on a flexible schedule and give participants the chance to get certified in CPR. Our corporate onsite CPR training programs are designed to make CPR approachable and easy to learn, so that your staff will be able to use these techniques to save the lives of coworkers, family members, and anyone else who needs help.
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]]>CPR training in NJ will prepare you for many types of emergencies, but with any luck you’ll never find yourself in a situation where someone’s life is in danger. However, if that type of situation ever occurs, you’ll be prepared to quickly act, providing CPR and other emergency care to increase the victim’s chance of survival. After suffering sudden cardiac arrest, a person only has about an 8% chance of surviving before they make it to the hospital; however, immediate CPR can double the chance of survival and saves over 90,000 lives every year in the United States.
Though learning CPR is often a thankless task, those who are able to use it to save someone else’s life usually receive the gratitude of the person’s family and community. That gratitude is more than enough of a reward, but in New Jersey the American Heart Association actually gives an award to people who’ve used CPR to make the state a safer place. The New Jersey American Heartsaver Awards were given out on June 3rd and were awarded to 29 residents of New Jersey for their efforts to save people’s lives. Some of these individuals were recognized for individual acts of CPR and others were recognized for other efforts that advance CPR training in NJ.
Applying CPR Training and Other Knowledge to Save Lives
In addition to learning how to perform CPR specifically, CPR training in NJ also teaches individuals how to identify when someone needs emergency medical care and how to use an AED device to help people suffering from sudden cardiac arrest. These training programs provide participants with a lot of knowledge and skills that they can use in a number of different situations such as when someone has a heart attack, suffers an allergic reaction, almost drowns, is shocked with electricity, chokes, or suffocates.
One of the recipients of the award this year was Melanie Mercado, a resident of Union County who works as a registered nurse at RWJ University Hospital in Rahway. When she was going home from work one day, she saw someone lying in the middle of the street and realized they were the victim of a hit-and-run. Using her CPR training, Mercado told someone else to call 911 while she began performing CPR. She continued to provide CPR until the paramedics arrived and the woman would not have survived without her help and immediate action.
Providing CPR Skills and Training to More NJ Residents
Though the American Heart Association honors a lot of people who directly perform CPR to save another’s life, it also uses its awards to bring attention to people and organizations that provide CPR training in NJ and increase the number of trained and prepared citizens who can perform CPR. This year Joseph Przytula also received an award for his efforts to do just that.
After the state government passed legislation to provide CPR training in NJ public schools, Pryztula helped implement the program in Elizabeth Public Schools. As the supervisor of health, safety, and physical education, he makes sure that every student receives CPR and AED training before they graduate—more than 700 students every year. His fantastic efforts to expand CPR training have made his school, community, and state a much safer place for everyone who lives and works here.
For those interested in CPR training in NJ, there are many places across the state where this type of training is available. The more people that learn how to respond in emergencies, the safer everyone will be when emergencies happen. When a person performs immediate CPR and AED, they can triple the chance of the victim surviving the ordeal. If you are looking for CPR training in NJ, contact us today.
Sources:
http://www.nj.com/suburbannews/index.ssf/2015/06/two_union_county_residents_hon.html
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Counte Cooley survives heart attack thanks to strangers
“I didn’t have a pulse and I wasn’t breathing. But I was by the time they got through with me,” Counte Cooley said of surviving a recent cardiac arrest.
Just four days before, Cooley, owner of Electronic Sales Co. in Gainesville, had returned from Fullerton, Calif. He had won first in his division in the National Racquetball Championship.
After his victory, the 69-year-old got back into the swing of routine and went to play with his regular league Monday night at LA Fitness in Buford. After telling the other players about his experience at the championship, Cooley and another player decided to play a game.
“He’d beat me a couple of times before, a few weeks ago, so I was really focused on the game,” Cooley said. “I beat him. Then I came out and we were high-fiving and bantering back and forth about the game. I went up to the front desk … halfway there I hit the ground. I have no recollection. I went from walking to nothing to people bouncing on my chest.”
Cooley said his cardiologist at Northeast Georgia Medical Center later told him it was likely he suffered cardiac arrest because of ventricular tachycardia, a rapid heart rate.
According to the American Heart Association, nearly 360,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur in the United States and fewer than 8 percent of people survive. Fortunately, effective CPR can double or triple the odds of survival.
Cooley experienced the fortunate fate of having a heart attack in a place where three people knew and performed CPR. They increased his odds of survival, ultimately saving his life.
Cooley has a very hazy memory of the event, but has pieced together the steps people took to save his life.
The Gainesville man lost consciousness and fell into a column, leaving a 2«-inch gash in the back of his head. Two personal trainers and a bystander at the gym who are CPR certified immediately ran to Cooley’s aid.
Marvin Elam, a personal trainer at LA Fitness, said he was working with a client about 50 feet away from where Cooley collapsed.
“I heard a commotion,” Elam said. “I looked over and saw a lot of people gather around. People do faint at times at the gym. It’s something you see occasionally and you don’t get to alarmed when someone faints. But I wanted to make sure someone from LA Fitness was there to assist. So I excused myself and started walking over. Then I heard someone scream ‘Help, Help.’ So I knew it was probably more serious than that.”
Elam said he could see Cooley wasn’t breathing.
Melissa Hazen, another personal trainer at the gym, ran to retrieve the gym’s automated external defibrillator. Tracey Tuggle , a gym patron who could not be reached for comment, checked for a pulse and didn’t find one.
The AED confirmed Cooley’s heart had stopped and delivered a jolt of electricity to kick-start it. Elam gave chest compressions until the paramedics arrived a few moments later.
Cooley said the paramedics later told him they were at the intersection across from the gym when they got the call. The ambulance only had to turn on its lights and pull into the parking lot.
The ambulance took Cooley to the nearby emergency room at Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville.
The American Heart Association and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention point out seconds are critical in survival and prevention of long-term damage in a cardiac arrest event.
“The paramedics and the emergency room doctors told me I should find those three people and give them a big gratitude of my thanks,” Cooley said. “My wife and I went to see them. I took them a dinner and some flowers and balloons and told them they were my heroes and my angels.”
Elam said “it felt great” to see Cooley walk into the gym.
“It was pretty traumatic,” Elam said. “You’re watching life leave somebody. I’ve had training in CPR but training on dummies and a living person are totally different. Somehow you have to be focused on what you have to do.”
Hazen, who served in the Marine Corps for 11 years, was trained to handle emergency situations like the one Cooley was in. She called the shots and applied the AED while Tuggle gave breaths and Elam gave chest compressions.
“If you want to freak out, you freak out later,” Hazen said.
Cooley said the experience has “restored his faith” and has shown him how willing people are to help.
“I just feel overwhelmingly blessed,” Cooley said. “The further I get away from the incident, the more I am realizing the impact of the whole thing and how fortunate I was to be where I was when it happened.”
Cooley is recovering and still has to have a number of medical tests. He also has to take time away from playing racquetball.
Cooley said he has become an “AED advocate” and intends to keep one in his business and encourage other business owners to have the devices as well. He said he’s also an advocate for CPR training.
Elam said being trained in CPR gave him the confidence to step in and help and that he believes others should also receive the training.
“I think any person would be in shock and be too afraid to help. They’d be afraid of doing something worse,” Elam said. “Those people that are certified in CPR, if you do see a situation, don’t hesitate to help. The second you waste could be the second between someone living and dying.”
]]>61-year-old Leeroy Henderson credits his son for a second chance at life. He would not be here today if it were not for the 23-year old’s quick thinking.
23-year-old Josh says his father Leeroy Henderson has always been his hero.
“I’m extremely close to him. I’ve always been close to him,” Josh Henderson said.
On January 22nd, Josh almost lost his father. The two were having a conversation at Leeroy’s home when something changed.
“I remember my mouth was moving but no words was coming out of it,” said Leeroy Henderson.
“He turned blue and purple and just every bit of color went out. I thought for sure he was gone,” said Josh Henderson.
Josh realized his hero, his father was having a heart attack. He started CPR, something he only knew because he had to learn when he got his miner card.
“I’m not going to sit here and let him die. I’m going to at least do something. I can at least try,” Josh said.
Josh’s girlfriend’s step-father also helped with CPR until paramedics arrived. The paramedics shocked Leeroy several times. He spent six days in a coma at UK Medical Center but came through. He is now back at home in Middlesboro. Doctors say he is alive thanks to Josh’s CPR.
“I call him my hero. I was telling everybody that he was my hero. I was telling everybody that if it weren’t for him, they’d be going to a funeral,” Leeroy said.
The father and son say this shows the importance of knowing CPR.
“I never in a million years thought I would’ve had to use it when I learned it, but I can’t express how important it is to know it. If I didn’t know it, he would’ve died,” Josh said.
“I get another chance at life. I get to see my kids grow, my grandkids grow. I thank god for that,” said Leeroy.
Now this father and son are each other’s heroes.
Leeroy Henderson says he is also making some lifestyle changes. He says he quit smoking and is eating better.
http://www.911ready.com/blog/bid/381736/Automatic-External-Defibrillators-It-s-All-About-The-Marketing?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=4849662
Ever notice how many fire extinguishers there are? Ever notice how you know where those fire extinguishers are? Now, where is the closest automatic external defibrillator (“AEDs”) located? See a pattern here?
I suspect the difference is because of marketing. What does a fire extinguisher do? Extinguisher fires, right? Fires are bad, right? Happen all the time, right? We need those fire extinguishers.
Now about those AEDs? What exactly do they do? Peoples’ hearts just stop? Never heard of such a thing. When you “drop dead” don’t you do just that? How can some gizmo restart a heart beat….at church, in the mall, on the playing field, or any public place? Keep your voodoo science to yourself.
It’s all about marketing. If you’re reading this blog post you probably know that Sudden Cardiac Arrest is a significant problem and an AED is the definitive solution when the public is faced with this problem. So why doesn’t the concept of having an AED and/or knowing the location of the closest AED seem important to the public.
Here’s my idea. Our offices are near one of the great research parks in the United States. Thousands of years of higher educated professionals sitting at desks, sedentary, and working long hours with bad food. A set-up for SCA’s. How many there know CPR or have access to an AED? Probably very view.
So here’s the plan. We aren’t talking about AED any more. No, we have relabeled AED’s to “Knowledge Worker Preservations Devices” (“KWPD’s”). AED’s are for the general public, but KWPD, ah, those are reserved for a select few. Think it will work?
It could be worse. Is it possible that we don’t know where either the closest fire extinguisher or AED is located? Not to worry, it’s just survival of the fittest at work.
(Next: Hands-only CPR isn’t CPR at all. It’s the “squash the chest to save the brain” protocol. How do you think that will “sell.”)
