The Morning Report - 15 April 2013

Hello #COMBOMEDIC follower...sorry about the weekend hiatus. This weekends lack of posting was brought to you by the our good friend, the GI bug...and that is all I have to say about that!

As I was catching up this morning I saw a report that was broadcast on EMS World related to an event in Santa Rosa California over the weekend.

I am not sure if we can ever over express the need for the general public to learn the aspect of how to conduct CPR. The designers of the new CPR processes have come up with a method that prevents people from having to put their mouth on people in order to limit those detracting factors that were keeping people from doing CPR.

SO WHY SHOULD WE ALL KNOW CPR!!!

The hyperlink that I posted above will take you to a story where an 8 year old boy was hit in the chest by a pitch. He started to take his base when he collapsed along the first base line. The child was experiencing sudden cardiac arrest. In the stands watching the game were two off-duty paramedics. They immediately jumped to the ready and were on the field helping the child. They brought nothing with them other than their ability to start the processes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Once rescue crews arrived on-scene the patient was defibrillated with an AED and then moved to the ambulance. The report goes on to say that the patient was breathing on his own while in the ambulance and by the time reporters arrived at the hospital the patient was talking to the coach about his performance in the game.

Immediate CPR is vital. Even though the two responders in this instance were Paramedics, anybody could have started these processes and received similar results.

GO FORTH AND TEACH EVERYONE CPR!!!
The Combomedic

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