Emergency Cardiac Care News Digest – July 19, 2024

Emergency Cardiac Care News Digest is an assortment of current events and news related to emergency cardiac care and resuscitation. Produced by Code One Training Solutions, Emergency Cardiac Care News Digest is published every Friday throughout the year.

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Revived on the River!

Joe Ellis’s journey from layperson, to SCA victim, to passionate advocate.

Drones to deliver defibrillators to treat cardiac arrest patients in trial

The Scottish Ambulance Service is a partner in Project CAELUS, which aims to create a drone-enabled medical logistics network.
Drones could be used to ensure cardiac arrest patients in Scotland receive quick treatment if a trial is successful.
More than 8,000 people per year in Scotland have an out of hospital cardiac arrest, and defibrillators delivered by drone could help passers-by in rural, remote or congested areas provide life-saving care.
The study will investigate bystander interaction and protocols to support ambulance call-handlers in navigating the public to a drone during simulated scenarios.
Data from the study will later be analysed by Strathclyde University.

More: https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2024/07/17/drones-to-deliver-defibrillators-to-treat-cardiac-arrest-patients-in-trial/

2024 NACo Awards: Spotlight on Howard County for Parks and Recreation

Sudden cardiac arrest is one of the leading causes of death. Research shows that our community plays an important part in the chain of survival and help slow down the clock that ultimately saves lives. Howard County Recreation & Parks is expanding its access to AED units so we can ensure bystanders and loved ones have the means to act fast to improve a sudden cardiac arrest patients’ survival. We can save more lives because we know every second matters. Through this expanded initiative and public awareness campaign, SaveStations are placed in our regional park system. They are designed to house any AED on the market, indoors and out, and provide 24/7 access to these life-saving units.

Source: https://conduitstreet.mdcounties.org/2024/07/18/2024-naco-awards-spotlight-on-howard-county-for-parks-and-recreation/

A heart for change: Local family champions AEDs after daughter’s Sudden Cardiac Arrest

A medical emergency at the Sunflower State Games last year became a catalyst for change for one Emporia family.
On July 16, 2023, Reagan Herrman was playing basketball when her heart stopped on the court at Washburn University and she stopped breathing. After four minutes, two cycles of CPR and one shock from an AED, she began breathing again. She was subsequently diagnosed with catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT).
Her family’s advocacy has since played a crucial role in passing Kansas House Bill 2494, which requires policy guidelines for cardiac events in schools across the state.

Story: https://www.emporiagazette.com/free/article_1690c18e-4226-11ef-822d-d3b608f209b6.html

ENCORE: Becoming a HEARTSafe Community: A Guide to Reducing Death & Disability from Sudden Cardiac Arrest

This guide is an overview of a community-based approach to improving cardiac arrest outcomes. The evidence-based recommendations and best practices described present interrelated actions that, when combined, can enable short- and long-term improvements for people who experience sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). Here you’ll find HEARTSafe Community strategies and the 13 tactical elements to execute these strategies as well as resources from organizational and industry partners.

Check it out here: https://www.citizencprsummit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Citizen-CPR-Foundation-HSC-Guide-FINAL.pdf

Three AEDs now available in Berlin

Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) have been installed in Berlin at the Welcome Center, Stephen Decatur Park and Henry Park as an added safety measure for emergent cardiac arrest incidents.
The Food and Drug Administration describes AEDs as a “type of computerized defibrillator that automatically analyzes the heart rhythm in people experiencing cardiac arrest. When appropriate, it delivers an electrical shock to the heart to restore its normal rhythm.” The devices have now been added around town to protect residents and visitors in an unfortunate situation.
According to Berlin Special Project Administrator Kate Daub, the town has been looking to purchase the potentially life-saving appliances since 2023. Officials investigated the possibility of receiving Community Parks and Playground Program funding from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources for purchasing the AEDs. However, they discovered the devices were ineligible for the CPP monetary support because their expected lifespan was less than 20 years.
“Since then, the Town of Berlin and the Parks Commission have been discussing ways to make the project feasible,” Daub said.

Read on: https://baysideoc.net/three-aeds-now-available-in-berlin/

Video Story- Ozark County, Mo., paramedic raising awareness for CPR training after saving 17-year-old while on vacation

Defibrillation simulator provides life support training

Enhancing defibrillator proficiency through innovative online education
Dr. Michael Kazior is in anesthesiology and critical care medicine based out of the Central Virginia VA Health Care System (CVHCS). When he recognized the lack of defibrillator training opportunities for anesthesiologists and other ACLS providers, both within VA and at external hospital systems, he set out to create an online defibrillator education module that would not only help providers learn how to use the device but maintain that knowledge.
“Without repeated practice, many people aren’t confident using defibrillators because the training options are limited,” Kazior shared.

Read on: https://news.va.gov/132950/defibrillation-simulator-life-support-training/

Body camera footage captures deputy saving drowning 1-year-old girl from pool

ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. (WSVN) — A Florida deputy is being hailed a hero after his swift actions saved a toddler from drowning at her home.
Two months ago, 1-year-old Charlie was receiving swimming lessons at her family’s Central Florida home when she began to drown.
Charlie’s mother called 911 while the swim instructor performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
Body camera footage shows the moments Sheriff Deputy Jeff Finch arrived first on the scene and immediately began life saving efforts.

Source: https://wsvn.com/news/local/florida/body-camera-footage-captures-deputy-saving-drowning-1-year-old-girl-from-pool/

What to know about water safety and CPR this summer

As people flock to pool parties, sandy beaches and other water adventures to cool off this summer, experts say learning CPR and some water safety basics also should be at the top of the to-do list.
“In general, I’m an advocate for everyone getting CPR training,” said Katherine Berg, associate director at the Center for Resuscitation Science at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. “But preventing drowning incidents is even more important than CPR training. Ideally, every kid should learn how to swim.”
After decades of decline, drowning rates in the U.S. are on the rise, according to a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report. The climb began following the onset of the pandemic in 2020, when people started spending more recreational time in the water with limited supervision.

Continue reading: https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/the-importance-water-safety-cpr-summer-19553839.php

FROM THE VAULT: Hands-only CPR It’s not as hard as it looks with Vinnie Jones

Vinnie Jones shows how hard and fast Hands-only CPR to Stayin’ Alive by the Bee Gees can help save the life of someone who has had a cardiac arrest. The Hollywood hardman stars in a British Heart Foundation TV advert urging more people to carry out CPR in a medical emergency.

REMINDER: Register for the AHA ECC National Training Network Conference

The American Heart Association will present the 2024 Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) National Training Network Conference, which will be held September 25-26, 2024, at the Marriott Marquis in Chicago.
The conference will feature a line-up of more than 20 peer-to-peer sessions and plenary presentations, as well as several ACLS, PALS, and BLS live demonstrations.
On September 24, they will have a pre-conference course and offer ACLS for Experienced Providers (ACLS EP).

More information and registration: https://cpr.heart.org/en/resources/ecc-conferences-and-events

SPOTLIGHTING: Heart Disease and Stroke. You’re the Cure.

For more than 30 years, You’re the Cure – the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s grassroots network – has been doing just that. They are a community of fathers and mothers, neighbors and friends, researchers and caregivers, passionate about an America that’s free of heart disease and stroke. Each day, they work together to advocate for heart-healthy and stroke-smart communities through legislative and regulatory policies in our cities, states and across the country.

More: https://www.yourethecure.org/about_us

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