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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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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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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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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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Joshua Duggar, one of the 19 children of Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar, called 911 as he and his brother John rescued a six-year-old girl who was injured in a car accident last week.

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A few years ago we recorded some snow safety training videos.  At the time, the videos were huge, and are still huge even by today’s standards.  Posting them to YouTube has helped, though.  For those that are interested, the reason they are so big is the huge snowflakes.  They required the video to create a new keyframe for every frame, resulting in a video that is at least twice the size that it could have been.  But that’s beside the point.

The videos cover topics such as hypothermia and frostbite.  We hope that you enjoy them!

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Talk about your amazing CPR stories.  This man suffered from sudden cardiac arrest, and the doctor did not give up.  He had been dead, but now he is living back at home in Brooklyn.  It took 47 minutes of CPR: 4,500 chest compressions and eight zaps with a defibrillator (AED) to bring him back, but they never gave up hope.  Could this story alter our views of the effectiveness of CPR, and the ability for someone to recover from a cardiac arrest?

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The first randomized intra-arrest cooling study performed using a novel intra-nasal cooling method showed much faster and earlier cooling in treated patients and significantly higher neurologically intact survival – to – discharge rate in many patients. The Pre-Resuscitation Intra-Nasal Cooling Effectiveness (PRINCE) study involved 200 patients and was conducted by 15 Emergency Medical Systems (EMS) in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic and Sweden. The aim was to determine safety and efficacy of intra-nasal cooling during ongoing resuscitation of cardiac arrest patients even before the return of circulation (ROSC).

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If you’ve been following the blog, you’d know that we seemed to disappear from updates for a few months.  We’ve been really busy with some new developments since late August that we’re hoping to launch in the near future.  In the meantime, if you didn’t notice the changes to ProCPR, ProFirstAid or ProBloodborne, we’ve made some changes.

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We’ve been working on a new way to get weekly training videos, and have just released a gadget that you can add to your iGoogle Homepage. It is updated every week with a different CPR training video so that you can keep your skills up to date throughout the year and between certifications. We’re really excited to finally be able to bring it to you.

What is iGoogle?

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