Written by Paul Martin on March 11th, 2010
Hi-tech nurses in Portsmouth’s hospitals have ditched traditional notepad and pens for an electronic alternative – saving the NHS £220,000 ($330,000 USD) a year.
The digital notation devices communicate wirelessly with hospital records through a BlackBerry smartphone. This enables the nurses and midwives to store patient information remotely and securely, transferring data almost instantly.
The Portsmouth NHS Trust believes its PaperIQ digi-pens save time and money by cutting the amount of data entry in half.
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Written by Paul Martin on March 10th, 2010
EA expands interactive fitness product line with new EA SPORTS Active Heart Rate Monitor and new wireless control system as innovation comes to new suite of fitness products this fall.
Millions of people around the world have experienced the revolution in home fitness since last spring with EA SPORTS Active™, the number one rated fitness program for the Wii™**. Today, EA SPORTS™, a label of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS), announced that EA SPORTS Active 2.0* (working title) is now in development and will be available this fall on PlayStation®3, Wii™, iPhone® and iPod touch®. The new EA SPORTS Active 2.0* fitness program will deliver true fitness results by featuring an innovative wireless control system, powered by new leg and arm straps with motion sensors, a heart rate monitor to capture intensity, and a new online hub to track and share workout data. EA SPORTS Active 2.0* will make working out simple, effective and will go with you wherever you are.
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Written by Paul Martin on March 4th, 2010
Bystanders who start CPR on children before paramedics arrive can save lives and limit brain damage, regardless of whether they do the old-fashioned type of CPR with chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth or the newer “hands-only” CPR, a study from Japan confirms.
In the study of children who had suffered cardiac arrest outside a hospital, those who received any CPR were about three times more likely to survive than those who did not get CPR.
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Written by Paul Martin on March 3rd, 2010
An article appearing in the United Kingdom newspaper The Daily Mail talks about a possible change in CPR guidelines after a girl lost her life, who almost certainly could have been rescued. The lifeguard had revived the girl to the point that the girl was breathing, and stopped as she was trained to do, but didn’t check for a pulse.
Sophie Konderak, 16, suffered from sudden cardiac arrest during a training session at a leisure center. The lifeguard dragged her from the water, unconscious, and immediately began cardiopulmonary resuscitation. She was doing both chest compressions and rescue breathing. She had never before tried to revive someone, and when Sophie started breathing, she had believed the effort to be successful.
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Written by Paul Martin on February 26th, 2010
People who received detailed audio instructions on how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) demonstrated better compression rate, hand placement and compression depth than those who did not receive recorded instructions by cell phone. The results of the study are published today online in Annals of Emergency Medicine (“Cell Telephone Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Audio Instructions When Needed by Lay Rescuers: A Randomized, Controlled Trial”).
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Written by Paul Martin on February 25th, 2010
We’re all over social media, here at ProCPR. In fact, we’ve got many twitter accounts that you can follow, for updates on each of our current programs. We’d also like to invite you, if you haven’t already, to become a fan on Facebook. It’s a growing community of all of you that loves keeping your skills fresh with our training videos, and have a great time with the profession of saving lives. We’ve also got a youtube channel for you to subscribe to. We’re updating it regularly with new training videos and other fun videos that we come up with to promote life-saving skills.
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Written by Paul Martin on February 24th, 2010
A new study has just been released, claiming to be on the conservative side, that roughly 48,000 deaths are due to infections caught while in the hospital. These are mostly preventable infections, that wouldn’t have been caught by the infected outside of the hospital environment.
They are mistakes that cost lives, says study researcher Ramanan Laxminarayan, PhD, MPH, a senior fellow at the Washington, D.C. think tank Resources for the Future.
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Written by Paul Martin on February 22nd, 2010
Beyond a shadow of a doubt, the number one question that I get when I tell people what I do for a living is that. How can you get CPR Certified Online? How do you do compressions on a computer? Is that for real? By now, I’ve heard the same question about a thousand times. But you know what? It doesn’t bother me. It means that people are generally going to be curious about how it works, and they want to learn. It’s intriguing, like a great mystery that they want to know the answer to. It is great to be able to explain the process to them, and to have an answer for every follow up question.
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Written by Paul Martin on February 17th, 2010
National Heart Failure Awareness Week is set for February 14-20. This is a time for physicians and other health providers to remind patients with heart failure, those at risk and family members of patients how to best manage this syndrome, what heart failure means, to re-evaluate life style and consider changes to improve quality of life. Visit www.abouthf.org to learn more about following a low sodium diet, exercise do’s and don’ts, managing medications, heart rhythm problems, and other factors commonly associated with heart failure. These modules are written in easy to read and understand language and can be downloaded free of charge.
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Written by Paul Martin on February 12th, 2010
We’ve been spending some time coming up with a new place for Registered Nurses to hang out. We’ve been building a social network, called Nurse’s Cafe, for some time now, and are getting close with that. But right now we have something new to introduce. We call it “RN Stories.”
RN Stories is a place where you can share stories from work. Things that touched your heart, funny stories, and perhaps what got you into nursing in the first place.
We’re very excited for the RN community to get involved and have fun with it. We’re really curious to see how inspirational the site becomes to people in the nursing field.
To use it, all you need is a facebook account, as it uses Facebook Connect alone to sign in and start writing.
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Hi-tech nurses in Portsmouth’s hospitals have ditched traditional notepad and pens for an electronic alternative – saving the NHS £220,000 ($330,000 USD) a year.
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