Paul

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About the Author

I am the Chief Creative Officer at ProCPR, as well as the primary blogger here. I take care of the video editing, graphic design and corporate branding that you see on every video and every page on this site, as well as at ProCPR, ProFirstAid, ProBloodborne, NursesCafe, etc. My work is literally everywhere that ProCPR goes. I also handle our Twitter account, so be sure to follow us there, if you use twitter! You can be sure that I’m not just an average joe writing this blog, but one of the founders of the company.

Recent Posts by Paul:

  • Hi-Tech Nurses use Digi-Pens for Data Entry to Patient Records
    11 Mar 2010 in Medical Technology

    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 [...]
  • EA Sports Active Adds Heart Rate Monitor, Wireless Motion Sensors
    10 Mar 2010 in Video Games & Wii

    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 [...]
  • Regular CPR works Best in Children, but Hands-Only works too
    04 Mar 2010 in CPR & Effectiveness & Hands-Only CPR

    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 [...]
  • CPR Guidelines to Change in the UK?
    03 Mar 2010 in CPR & Training

    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 [...]
  • CPR Instruction via Cell Phone Effective
    26 Feb 2010 in CPR & Effectiveness & Research

    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 [...]
  • Follow ProCPR on Twitter, Fan on Facebook and More
    25 Feb 2010 in ProBloodborne & ProCPR & ProFirstAid & ProHomeSafety

    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 [...]
  • Is your Hospital careful about Infection Prevention?
    24 Feb 2010 in Health and Safety

    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 [...]
  • How can you get CPR Certified ONLINE?
    22 Feb 2010 in ProCPR

    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.  [...]
  • National Heart Failure Awareness Week: February 14-20, 2010
    17 Feb 2010 in Health and Safety

    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 [...]
  • Introducing “RN Stories”
    12 Feb 2010 in ProCPR

    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 [...]