Written by Paul Martin on January 24th, 2012 | Comments »
When it comes to CPR training, people always think of the hands-on training that folks are required to do the first time they take CPR.
Hands-on skills practice is a good thing, which is why we have Blended CPR. CPR isn’t brain surgery, but most folks feel more comfortable if they’ve practiced doing the physical motor skills training on dummies that don’t ever really feel like what it does when you’re actually performing CPR on a real person.
The measure sponsored by Republican Sen. Jim Tracy of Shelbyville was approved 31-0 on Monday. The companion bill is still awaiting a vote in the House Education Committee.
Instead of just requiring instruction in the techniques and skills associated with CPR, the proposal would require “students learn the techniques and practice the psychomotor skills associated with performing CPR.”
Written by Scott on January 18th, 2012 | Comments »
This past year has been busy over at the ProTrainings offices. Thanks to you, we were able to train and certify more than 84,000 people this year alone. With the beginning of a new year, we wanted to take a look back at 2011 and let you know what is being planned for 2012. We would also like to offer you the opportunity to make your voice heard by responding to our survey and letting us know what you would like to see us build this year. We care about your feedback and will read every suggestion we receive.
Website enhancements
The programming team has been especially busy. Some of the top, new features that were added this past year include: subtitles for the ProCPR program, allowing you to read along if it is too noisy to hear or for those who are hearing impaired; a mobile version of the website, which is more convenient for signing up and watching videos; and a redesigned training and test experience that are less distracting and help to reinforce learning in the areas you are the weakest. We also listened to your feedback and randomized the test questions, meaning you will never get exactly the same test twice.
Written by Paul Martin on January 17th, 2012 | Comments »
The iPad has changed a lot in the world since it was announced nearly two years ago. It’s made it into the education system in many places, and has found its’ way into hospitals as well. We’ve collected some of the best iPad Apps for Doctors, Patients and Med Students. We’ll be expanding this list as we find more applications. Let us know if we’re missing any that you use.
Written by Paul Martin on January 11th, 2012 | Comments »
Want to keep up with us on your mobile device? Google Currents is a news aggregation application that you can get for any Android or iOS devices including any Android phone and most Android tablets. It’s also available on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s a magazine style reader that you can use to follow your favorite news sources.
We’ve added the ProCPR Blog to Google Currents, so if you search ProCPR, you’ll find it. With this, you can keep up to date with our company and what we’re doing as we continue to improve CPR and other health care related training programs.
We’re currently busy planning our projects for this year, and we have a few pretty big things on the horizon. Keep up with us and stay on the cutting edge with our announcements.
Use this link in your mobile browser, and you’ll be prompted to add the ProCPR Blog to your Google Currents.
Written by Paul Martin on January 10th, 2012 | Comments »
Creating the new introduction video for our content was a fun experience, and required the help of a good friend of mine that composes music. It started out as a way to simplify the number of videos that we would need to create.
We have videos that we serve that are unique to different programs that we offer. We also have videos that are required as parts of multiple training programs. We used to have introductions that were particular to the program that people were on. That became a problem when we either had to create a duplicate version of the same video with a different introduction, or we could simply reuse the same video with a different video introduction and confuse people.
What I decided to do was to create a single introduction that could be applied to all of the videos that we create for the company sites. I assembled a couple of versions of the introduction. One runs for six seconds and only plays on the first video of each training course. The other runs only two seconds and appears on the rest of the videos so that it’s there for branding, but doesn’t get in the way.
After I created the graphics, I knew that I would need sound to go with it. I am good at video production, but sound production is not a specialty of mine. I know a number of people that write music, so I went to one of my friends to come up with a soundtrack for each of these intros, a composer named Teddy Blass. What he came up with matched up perfectly with the video content, and gives the video a professional feel that we were looking for. Plus, if you’re on a computer with more bass, you can hear a heartbeat in the background.
Written by Paul Martin on December 29th, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Recently someone reminded me of a scene in the movie Dumb and Dumber that featured and attempt at CPR. It’s a pretty classic scene that goes horribly wrong.
In the scene, someone called Mental is holding Harry and Lloyd hostage. They stop to get something to eat, and Harry and Lloyd try a prank which brings about an allergic reaction. They then try to rescue Mental with “CPR.” Or at least their own variation of it.
It starts with Mental having each of the others try these hot peppers. He leaves to make a phone call, and by the time he comes back, the guys have put the peppers on his burger. He has an allergic reaction to the peppers and falls onto the floor. Harry and Lloyd react quickly, pumping his legs in a ridiculous “heimlich” maneuver that isn’t, and then beating him on the chest. One of them tries to give rescue breaths, which Mental stops from happening. Mental does, however, carry pills with him, but he’s left those in the van. Instead, he had rat poison, which he’d intended on using on Harry and Lloyd. They give him the poison, thinking it’s the pills that he needs, and he finally passes out.
Watch the Video (Warning, some strong language. May not be safe for work.)
Written by Paul Martin on December 20th, 2011 | Comments »
We’re all over the social networks, and we’d like you to join us there. Recently, Google+ added pages for business, and we’ve created a few that we’d like you to add, if you are part of that network. Google+ is a new social network that is kind of a combination of Facebook and Twitter, and includes games such as Angry Birds. It’s only about six or so months old, so it’s much smaller than either Facebook or Twitter. We’re monitoring all three places for your questions, though, so feel free to get in touch with us with them.
Written by Paul Martin on December 9th, 2011 | Comments »
Today I learned about another great advance in medical technology. This one could be another very important step toward the eradication of cancer, and it was developed by a high school student. Nanotechnology has helped 17-year-old Angela Zhang to develop what one fellow researcher’s calling the “Swiss Army knife of cancer treatment,” as her gold and iron-oxide nanoparticle does double duty delivering the drug salinomycin to the site of a tumor, in addition to aiding MRI and photoacoustic imaging.
Design of Image-guided, Photo-thermal Controlled Drug Releasing Multifunctional Nanosystem for the Treatment of Cancer Stem Cells – Biochemistry
MENTOR: Dr. Zhen Cheng, Stanford University
“I was surprised by the survival rate of patients who had undergone current cancer therapy.”
Written by Paul Martin on November 22nd, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The UCLA School of Dentistry has developed a new mouthwash that may completely eliminate cavities and tooth decay during our lifetime. The new mouthwash targets Streptococcus mutans bacteria, primarily responsible for causing tooth decay and cavities.
The mouthwash, which is the result of nearly ten years of research, could be a big step toward the eradication of all forms of tooth decay.
In a recent clinical study, 12 subjects who rinsed just one time with the experimental mouthwash experienced a nearly complete elimination of the S. mutans bacteria over the entire four-day testing period. The findings from the small-scale study are published in the current edition of the international dental journal Caries Research.
Written by Paul Martin on November 2nd, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Recently there has been a lot of talk about how doing CPR to the 100 beat-per-minute song Stayin’ Alive by the Bee Gees was the way to go. It has the proper number of beats per minute, and can potentially keep you on pace correctly. Another song that fits the mold, albeit a morbid one, would be Another One Bites the Dust by Queen.
There has been other research, meanwhile, indicated that a childrens’ song called “Nellie the Elephant” was better. I have never heard of that song, so I’m not sure how many would think of it and be able to apply that if they were in a position where they needed to do CPR.
New research has been conducted at the Malcolm Woollard of Coventry University in Britain, where they conducted an experiment with 74 delegates attending an Australian College of Ambulance Professionals conference in New Zealand. The delegates had volunteered to perform CPR on a training dummy.
When it comes to CPR training, people always think of the hands-on training that folks are required to do the first time they take CPR.
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