CPR, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, is a procedure that will save an individual’s life if they have stopped breathing or their heart has stopped beating. This is usually the result of choking, drowning, suffocation, or other medical issues such as cardiac arrest. CPR is a combo of providing oxygen to the lungs through rescue breathing and keeping the blood flowing by providing chest compressions.
If blood flow does stop, permanent brain damage or even death can happen within just a few minutes. Therefore, response time is critical. An individual can be easily trained in proper CPR procedures through a corporate onsite CPR training course.
Things to Consider
While it’s true that CPR is a lifesaving procedure, it’s best if performed by someone who has been trained. If you have not been trained, consider trying to find a corporate onsite CPR training course to help you learn, especially if you are a parent or someone who cares for children and infants on a regular basis.
The American Heart Association is currently teaching the new technique of emphasizing the importance of chest compressions over rescue breathing. You can still learn the traditional technique if you wish in a corporate onsite CPR training course.
What Causes an Infant’s Heart to Stop?
There are many different things that can cause an infant’s breathing and heartbeat to stop. These include: head trauma, poisoning, choking, electrical shock, suffocation, drowning, and more.
When Should CPR be Performed on an Infant?
If an infant is not breathing, has no pulse, and is unconscious, then CPR should be performed.
Things to Avoid
There are certain things that you should do and certain things you should not. These would be covered in depth in a corporate onsite CPR training program.
If an infant is unconscious, you should never shake them to try to get a response. Pinching them is the best way to try to see if they are okay.
When performing CPR on an infant, you should never lift their chin while tilting the head back to move the tongue from the airway. If you suspect a spinal injury, you should simply pull the jaw forward without disturbing the neck or head. Never allow the mouth to close.
If the infant is breathing normally, moving, or coughing, you should not begin chest compressions because that could result in the heart stopping.
When to Call for Emergency Medical Help
If there is someone else there with you, one of you should call for emergency medical help while the other one begins CPR procedures. However, if you’re alone, loudly call for help and then begin lifesaving procedures. After two minutes, if no help has arrived, you should call for emergency medical response.
As long as you don’t suspect a spinal injury, you can carry the infant with you to a phone if you need to.
Preventing Accidents
In most cases, the incident causing the need for infant CPR is a preventable one. Following are some tips that can help prevent you from needing infant or child CPR.
- Assume an infant is more capable than you think. They can move around much more than you may want to give them credit for.
- You should never leave infants unattended on a surface that they could roll or fall off of.
- When putting a child in a high chair or stroller, always strap them in. You should never leave a child in a playpen with one of the sides down, and always follow precautions when using a car seat.
- You should teach your baby early on the meaning of “no” and “don’t touch.”
- Store toxic cleaning solutions and other chemicals in a childproof cabinet so that children can’t get their hands on them.
- Make sure that the environment is safe for children and infants.
- Always sit with an infant when they are eating – never allow them to move around while eating or drinking.
- Never tie anything around an infant’s wrists or neck.
Sources:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000011.htm
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Though CPR, which stands for cardio pulmonary resuscitation, has been around for a long time, many people don’t know exactly how it works, the science behind it, or how effective it is. This is too bad, because if the public better understood how important CPR is, more people would enroll in CPR training in NJ. Fortunately, more and more public schools are providing CPR training in NJ, and this is making all communities in the state safer. The number of corporations offering this training to employees is also increasing around New Jersey.
Though some people are turned off by the idea of having to perform CPR on total strangers, the truth is that most medical emergencies occur at home and at work. In addition to potentially saving the lives of strangers, CPR training in NJ can also help you save the lives of your family, friends, and others you care about. CPR training is most likely to save the life of someone you know and care about, and that’s why so many people are interested in learning how to safely perform it. Additionally, there are hands-only CPR techniques that can be learned that avoid mouth-to-mouth resuscitation for those who are squeamish about that type of technique.
CPR Saves Lives
Research conducted on CPR continues to show that CPR can potentially save a person’s life — about 92,000 lives every year. CPR can be an effective way to restore breathing and normal heart function, and it can increase a person’s chance of survival after
- sudden cardiac arrest
- heart attack
- choking
- suffocating
- almost drowning
- suffering an allergic reaction
- getting shocked with electricity
- overdosing on drugs
This isn’t to say that CPR will always save a person’s life. When a person requires CPR, their body is already under an extreme amount of stress, and the problems that caused their heart to stop may be too serious to repair with CPR. About 92% of people who experience sudden cardiac arrest do not survive before they arrive at the hospital; however, performing CPR immediately can double or triple that person’s chances to survive.
When a person stops breathing, every second counts. That’s why it’s so important that one of the first people who reach the victim can perform CPR without any hesitation. CPR training in NJ doesn’t just teach people how to perform CPR, which is relatively simple; it also provides each participant with the confidence they need to act decisively in an emergency situation.
Who Can Use CPR Training?
Everyone can benefit from learning how to perform CPR. It is not just something for lifeguards and medical professionals. Many businesses offer corporate onsite CPR training to their employees because it’s a great team-building exercise and increases the safety of every employee in the office. Most offices now have AED devices, which use electricity to restart the heart. During CPR training, employees can also learn how to use these devices which can save someone who’s in sudden cardiac arrest.
CPR training in NJ is also popular among private citizens who want to be able to perform CPR for their family members and friends. When there is an emergency, it is very important that someone nearby can perform CPR immediately before the medical professionals arrive.
If you have family members with heart problems, children with congenital defects, or just want to be prepared for an emergency, CPR training is right for you. We provide different types of training and certification to give you the tools you need to save someone’s life. Contact us for more information about our next session of CPR training in NJ.
Sources:
http://lasvegassun.com/news/2015/jul/13/how-perform-adult-cpr/
]]>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/
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Whether you need your CPR/AED course completion card to meet a specific job requirement or you’re a healthcare professional who needs to know how to perform CPR in a hospital setting, our courses are designed to give you the confidence to recognize and act on several life threatening emergencies in a safe, timely and effective manner. It’s difficult to predict where and when a sudden cardiac arrest will occur; however, studies have identified other out-of-hospital high-incident locations including airports, community centers, sports complexes, schools, doctors’ offices, public transportation terminals, gyms, jails, and malls. So, no matter where you are or where you work, having CPR knowledge and skills can literally be a lifesaver.
You Choose the Class
Choose the classes that fit your company’s needs most including: CPR and AED training, AHA BLS for healthcare professionals, pediatric CPR and first aid, basic first aid, and/or babysitting safety. We’ll provide everything needed for the on-site CPR class including CPR manikins, AED trainers and face shields. All of our CPR instructors are on-time, professional, friendly and efficient (plus we offer more than 25 years of certified experience).
Don’t Hesitate- Recertify
The American Heart Association recommends a bi-annual CPR class with an actual CPR recertification every 2 years. The practice behind the best way to administer CPR is always being researched and improved, so while the basics of CPR will remain the same, you’ll gain new knowledge with a CPR recertification.
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Studies show that starting CPR and using an AED saves lives. Once the heart stops beating, every moment is critical. Find out more about scheduling a private group CPR training class for your company or organization today.
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It’s so hard to think about going back to school when we’re lounging by the pool and the days are still long. The summer moves too fast! But the time is quickly approaching when the little ones will be heading back out to school and to all of their after-school activities as well. And for those of us who teach, coach, and care for children, it’s time for us to begin to prepare for another year.
Walk down the halls of any place where children are together and you will see smiling, laughing children excited about whatever happens to capture their attention at the moment. We all love to see them happy and engaged, don’t we? Most of the time facilities filled with children are happy, colorful, lively places. We all want to think about our own children, as well as those children in our care, being safe and healthy at all times but no matter how careful we are, sometimes accidents happen. Occasionally a hidden health issue will appear out of nowhere. This is why we need to be prepared to take swift and skillful action.
Do you work with children? Are you in charge of running a preschool, daycare center, after-school program, church youth program, dance studio, youth sports, or any other kind of program where there are many children present? Are your staff or volunteers CPR certified?
Honestly, it’s really fairly rare that you would encounter a situation where you would have to perform CPR on a child. But consider how many adults visit your center or program on a daily basis: your staff, parents and grandparents dropping off and picking up children, truck drivers delivering food and supplies and any other special visitors that you may encounter. CPR classes will help you and your staff to be prepared should anyone at your facility need emergency care.
Having your staff certified in CPR is just one more way that you can assure parents that you are well equipped to take care of the precious children entrusted to your care. We are an American Heart Association training facility. We bring the CPR training in NJ to your facility at your convenience. We will tailor training to your specific needs.
Contact us for information on setting up a training session at your facility.
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You can’t tell who might have heart disease. You can’t tell who might need CPR – whether it’s a powerful young athlete or the mom sitting next to you in the stands.
One step we can take, as we mourn for this kind and gifted young man, is to learn CPR. Maybe Grand Rapids could become Heart City. That would be just as brag-worthy as our Beer City USA title.
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Fischer had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition that accounts for about a third of the sudden cardiac deaths in young athletes.
In the vast majority of cases, a person suffering a sudden cardiac arrest dies before reaching the hospital. Getting CPR immediately can double or triple the chance of survival, according to the American Heart Association.
Fischer died in his sleep, with no witnesses to administer CPR. But if you were with a teenager – or a parent or grandparent – whose heart suddenly stopped beating, would you know what to do?
I didn’t – until recently. A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to take a CPR certification class by Life EMS Ambulance.
It was both easier and harder than I expected.
The easy part was the time involved. In less than two hours, I learned the basics of cardiopulmonary resuscitation – when it is needed, how to perform chest compressions to keep blood pumping through the body, and how to use an automated electronic defibrillator.
The hard part was applying enough pressure to get the “clicking sound” from the CPR mannequin, Annie, that let me know I had pressed down the recommended 2 inches.
“Lock your elbows,” advised John Schupra, director of the education center at Life EMS. That gave me the extra boost to hear that clicking sound – most of the time, anyway.
Applying compressions fast enough –at the rate of 100 per minute – also was tricky. Schupra suggested keeping to the beat of the song “Staying Alive.” But even in that practice situation, my mind had trouble remembering that beat of that often-played disco tune.
The heart association has online videos that teach hands-only CPR, and it’s a great idea to watch them. Hands-only CPR is CPR without the mouth-to-mouth breaths. The basic instruction is: Call 911 and push hard and fast in the center of the chest.
But if possible, take a class that includes hands-on practice.
It’s tough to imagine the need to use CPR. I suspect that might be one reason people tend to shy away from learning it, if only subconsciously. Some small corner of our mind reasons: If we don’t think about bad things happening, they won’t.
Skills you never hope to use
I’m sure Tony Elliott was glad he learned CPR in a mandatory class for his job. When his 24-year-old girlfriend, Jennifer DenBoer, went into cardiac arrest while sitting on the couch watching TV a year ago, he moved fast. He called 911 on speaker phone while starting chest compressions. DenBoer, of Kentwood, became one of the rare, lucky survivors.
And Amy Thompson Swager, a mother of seven from Climax, is grateful her sister was able to recall training she had learned as a Girl Scout 30 years earlier. Her sister saved her life by performing CPR when Swager’s heart stopped beating one day in 2008.
“She looked down at me and thought, ‘Oh, God! I’m going to watch her die!’ Of all the things I am thankful for regarding my (sudden cardiac arrest), I am so grateful that wasn’t how it ended for her,” Swager said. “How terrible would that be to feel so helpless.”
As I was learning CPR, I couldn’t help but think of the tiny, older woman I found slumped over a table at Breton Village Mall one morning several years ago. She looked as if she had put her head down to take a nap.
Puzzled, I walked over for a closer look. Her cup was tipped over and coffee spilled across the table.
I called for help and, in seconds, customers and staff at the restaurant were calling 911 and gathering around. Someone thought she found a pulse, but if the woman was breathing, her breaths were very faint. Mall walkers stopped and suggested laying her down and raising her feet.
Another woman helped me tilt back her chair to lay her gently on the floor. Immediately, the woman gulped in a big breath and then started breathing normally. By the time the emergency medical technicians arrived, she was alert and talking.
She wasn’t particularly happy to be the center of attention. But I heard she was back shopping at the mall the next week.
What bothered me about that situation, as I learned CPR, were the what-ifs.
What if she didn’t respond? What if her heart had stopped? Would I have just waited helplessly for the EMTs, her chances of survival diminishing with every second?
No guarantees now that I could do everything right. But I’m glad I am a bit wiser than I was two weeks ago.
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]]>Pamela Rauseo and her five-month old nephew, Sebastian, were stuck in bumper to bumper traffic on a Miami highway last week. Sebastian, who had been crying nonstop all throughout suddenly stopped, and Pamela’s instinct told her to check on him. Pamela said, “When he stopped crying, I sensed something might be wrong. It was like a gut feeling.”
Pamela parked her car on the highway, got out, and started screaming for help. Sebastian had been suffering from breathing problems ever since catching a cold from January, and the pair had just come from a doctor’s appointment at the hospital where Sebastian’s mother works as a nurse.
The brave aunt is not certified in CPR, but remembered a brief technique tutorial she was given once when her own seven-year-old son was hospitalized for respiratory issues when he was a baby. Luckily, Fire Capt. Anthony Trim and Lt. Alvaro Tonanez were stuck in the same jam as Pamela and Sebastian. They were literally 30 seconds away from the scene when they heard the call over the radio.
Sebastian responded to the CPR but continued to slip in and out of consciousness until he arrived at the hospital. He will stay in the hospital until doctors can find a reason as to his sudden cardiac arrest.
Remarkably, the entire incident was captured by Miami Herald photographer Al Diaz. He too was stuck in traffic and documented the ordeal.
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