Word: cpr
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...administrators can judge the safety of their school's cheer programs. For instance, the NCSF recently published an emergency-plan outline to get coaches thinking about how to handle injuries more effectively, with steps including locating medical kits and making sure at least one adult present is certified in CPR. The fact that some cheering squads lack even these rudimentary precautions is pretty distressing. But that's not even the worst part, according to Archie. "No one has to abide by any of these rules," she says of the push for more safety precautions. "It's a joke...
...employees tried to help in some way - either by directing guests to safety or fighting the fire. By comparison, only 17% of the guests helped. But even among the guests, identity shaped behavior. The doctors who had been dining at the club acted as doctors, administering cpr and dressing wounds like battlefield medics. Nurses did the same thing. There was even one hospital administrator there who - naturally - began to organize the doctors and nurses...
...Though eating clubs are private organizations, most Princeton upperclassmen belong to one—setting them apart from Harvard’s exclusive final clubs. In return for this degree of consent from the administration, Oseroff said, “the eating clubs’ officers underwent CPR training, organized patrols of parties by sober members, and hired outside security services.” Jessica Baylan, a Princeton senior, said that many students feel that the administration’s new policies are a result of the March 2007 death of Gary DeVercelly, a student at Rider University, which...
...matter of minutes,” O’Brien said. By coincidence, O’Brien had completed a Basic Life Support training course two weeks earlier and received the certificate that morning. He put his skills to work. “This underscores the value of CPR training because the first person on the scene was able to immediately begin administering it,” O’Brien said. Next was HUPD officer James P. Melia, dispatched to the scene after a report of a “man down,” according to the police...
...frontiers of heart research was mixed. Researchers discovered two genes that appear to contribute to early heart attacks, in part by causing blood to clot abnormally. A small emergency-room study found that drugs used to break up clots may help revive cardiac-arrest patients when such methods as CPR and electrical shock have failed. There were murkier findings regarding people with high levels of homocysteine, an amino acid linked to heart disease. Folic acid and B vitamins help bring homocysteine down, but one study cast doubt on whether this actually improves heart health...