Word: cpr
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...predicts it will break into an operating profit this quarter and a net profit by the end of the year. Several sobering statistics are on its side: some 250,000 Americans will die this year from sudden cardiac arrest. And one study found that using an AED and CPR within three minutes of collapse raised survival rates to 74%. As everyone from school and office administrators to hotel managers and private homeowners looks to buy AEDs, Cardiac Science expects healthy sales for years to come...
...providing basic, nonmedical care for them at a fee of $9 an hour, says Crystal Mata, manager of the program for the state's human-services department. Nearly 60% of those receiving care are 65 or older. Caregivers are required to take 12 hours of training each year, including CPR and first aid. The training is provided by 107 social-service agencies in the state, says Suzette Lindemuth, director of Senior Living Systems, a Los Lunas, N.M., personal-care agency that participates in the program. Agencies like Lindemuth's also arrange for monthly visits to check on the work...
Thank, or blame, Ozzy Osbourne, says Surreal Life producer Cris Abrego. The Osbournes "made it possible for us to talk to celebrities," he says. "Five or six years ago, reality TV was a bad word." Now it's CPR for a dying career, a way for forgotten celebrities to remind the world that they exist and for child stars to reintroduce themselves as grownups. Not that any celebrity will admit to such motives. On one Star Dates, Kim Fields--Tootie from The Facts of Life--says of her two blind dates, "If they call me Tootie, they...
Upon viewing several rows filled with young Korean-American women, Lee urged them to sign up for one-on-one lessons in “CPR and chest compression.” Lee’s raunchy brand of humor, which he said could make Margaret Cho blush, was one of the highlights of the evening, according to some audience members...
...responds to defibrillation, and they're smart enough not to deliver a shock unless they find the right signal, thus preventing accidental discharge. Although untrained passersby have successfully used AEDs, the ideal user is someone who has undergone a four-hour training course on how to give cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and operate an AED. CPR by itself does not usually revive someone in cardiac arrest, but it can keep a person alive for the critical extra few moments needed to locate and hook...