As the fourth leading cause of accidental death in the United States, choking is an alarmingly serious incident that requires immediate attention. Speed is of the essence. If someone around you begins to choke, you must be ready to intervene immediately. Your first...
Emergency situations strike without warning. Unfortunately, it can be too easy to forget your first aid lessons and make a mistake despite your good intentions. In a pinch, do you know how to help someone who needs it? More importantly, do you know what not to do?...
The more people are gathered in one place, the more likely it is for a medical emergency to occur. The crowds at schools or universities are an all-too-common setting for sudden cardiac arrest or another emergency. Worse, these occurrences don’t discriminate. While...
Depending on your career field, you may have taken a CPR class already or know that one is in your near future. If not, you may be wondering what the point of studying CPR is at all. If it’s not required for your career, is it really that crucial of a skill? There are...
An AED, or automated external defibrillator, is an absolutely crucial piece of equipment for any business to have available. This revolutionary machine allows anyone to provide emergency help to a victim of sudden cardiac arrest, drastically increasing their chances...
When people think about emergency situations where first aid training could help, they usually think of someone having a heart attack or suffering a flesh wound. However, it’s also quite possible to encounter someone having a stroke. According to the Internet Stroke...
