Emergency Cardiac Care News Digest - November 1, 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.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

Communities are calling on their municipalities to support holistic, locally tailored, community-led public safety solutions for SCA

Communities are calling on their municipalities to support holistic, locally tailored, community-led public safety solutions that combine improved accountability with greater investments in prevention and interventional capacity.
These solutions should focus on improving citizen and visitor safety through data collection and sharing strategies, and creating community-led collaborations that foster mutual trust and optimize the integrated use of available local resources.
The Citizen CPR Foundation encourages the establishment of a diverse, community based team for the purposes of providing leadership, accountability and culture of collaboration with a focus on issues related to sudden cardiac arrest. By bringing the appropriate people together in constructive ways with good information, they will create authentic visions and strategies for addressing the shared concerns of both organizations and the community.

Learn more about their HEARTSafe program here: https://www.citizencprsummit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Citizen-CPR-Foundation-HSC-Guide-FINAL.pdf

Interview: Damar Hamlin Experienced A Life Threatening Incident, Now He’s Giving Back

The NFL star opens up about his journey from surviving a cardiac arrest on the field to advocating for CPR awareness and defibrillator accessibility through his Chasing M’s Foundation.

Source: https://www.complex.com/sports/a/eddie-gonzalez/damar-hamlin-interview-aed-defibrillators-charity

Sweetwater Unified School District (San Diego County) Trains Over 1,000 Students in Hands-Only CPR

This training was part of the initiative to teach 1 Million San Diegans to perform Hands-Only CPR. The school district has also installed 26 outdoor placed AEDs on its campuses.

Nurse uses CPR to save EMT at Ala. football game

Erin Mender had earlier helped the same EMT with a medical emergency at the Alabama-Missouri game
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A nurse at the Alabama-Missouri game performed CPR on an EMT, all captured on video.
Mender assisted an EMT in treating a fan with a head injury, helping check vitals and getting the fan to an ambulance. As she went back to her seat another call for help came.
The same EMT Mender had assisted earlier was now the person needing help.
“His eyes started to roll back into his head, and he was falling backward onto someone else,” Mender told WIAT. “And I shook him, and I said, ‘Sir. Sir.’ He was unresponsive. I felt for a pulse. I did not feel one. I yelled out for someone else to feel one. They confirmed, and I looked around, and I said, ‘OK, I’m starting CPR.’”

Read on and watch the video: https://www.ems1.com/nurse/nurse-uses-cpr-to-save-emt-at-ala-football-game

Model AED Emergency Action Plan now available for Ohio schools and sports venues

Preparing staff at Ohio schools and sports venues for cardiac emergencies
Last Thursday, under the direction of Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Jon Husted, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) released its Model Emergency Action Plan for the Use of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs). The plan may be used by Ohio schools and municipal sports and recreation locations to ensure staff are trained and ready to respond if a student, young athlete, or any other individual experiences a cardiac emergency.
ODH’s Model Emergency Action Plan provides an easy-to-follow, step-by-step protocol for Ohioans who may not have medical training to follow when faced with a sudden cardiac arrest event. The protocol was developed with the help of medical experts. ODH’s model requires this plan to be practiced at least quarterly.

Continue: https://education.ohio.gov/Media/Ed-Connection/Oct-29-2024/Model-AED-Emergency-Action-Plans-released-for-scho?

Cumberland County and The Peyton Walker Foundation Celebrate the First Life Saved in the U.S. Using Avive Solutions’ New AED Technology

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — On July 16, 2024, a life-saving event unfolded when a trained citizen volunteer from the Cumberland 4 Minute City Program was dispatched by 911 to assist a community member experiencing a cardiac arrest emergency. Within minutes, the volunteer arrived and used an Avive Connect AED to deliver a defibrillation shock, successfully resuscitating the victim.
Cumberland County, PA, is among the first communities in the U.S. to implement Avive’s 4 Minute City Program, an initiative aimed at transforming responses to cardiac emergencies. This recent incident and successful resuscitation underscore the urgent need for immediate intervention during such crises and demonstrate the program’s potential to improve outcomes for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests nationwide.

Source: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cumberland-county-and-the-peyton-walker-foundation-celebrate-the-first-life-saved-in-the-us-using-avive-solutions-new-aed-technology-302289989.html

Every Minute Counts: Speedy Defibrillator Delivery Saves Lives From Cardiac Arrest

MONDAY, Oct. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Every minute spent waiting for a first shock from a defibrillator cuts the odds of surviving cardiac arrest by 6%, a new Dutch study finds.
“Our research shows that every minute of delay in giving the first shock has a major impact,” said study first author says Remy Stieglis, a researcher at Amsterdam University Medical Center (UMC).
“If the first shock was given within six minutes, it was possible in 93% of the cases to stop the heart rhythm disorder ventricular fibrillation (VF) — which causes the cardiac arrest,” he explained in a hospital news release. “If the initial shock was delayed and was only given after more than 16 minutes, for example, this percentage dropped to 75%.”

Continue reading: https://www.healthday.com/health-news/cardiovascular-diseases/every-minute-counts-speedy-defibrillator-delivery-saves-lives-from-cardiac-arrest

Conn. soccer moms, nurses recognized for cardiac arrest save

The duo were recognized for saving the life of a teen soccer player
ANSONIA, Conn. — Katie Grant and Paula Rossi were at a Woodland High School Region 16 and Ansonia High School soccer game Sept. 5, watching their sons play when they put their skills as nurses for Hartford HealthCare to good use.
The women saved the life of an Ansonia player who went into sudden cardiac arrest twice after being brought off the field.
They were honored last week by In A Heartbeat, a Connecticut nonprofit that raises awareness for sudden cardiac arrest, for their actions.
It was a “surreal” moment, said Grant, who like Rossi had saved lives in her professional role as a nurse. But it was made even more dramatic by the fact the field was not adjacent to the school and there was no other staff or hospital equipment nearby to help them.

Full article: https://www.ems1.com/rescue/conn-soccer-moms-nurses-recognized-for-cardiac-arrest-save

Record number of Kiwi’s learn CPR in Shocktober

More than 35,000 more Kiwis now have the life-saving skills to help someone suffering from a cardiac arrest thanks to Hato Hone St John’s record breaking Shocktober CPR awareness campaign.
The campaign is the most successful since its inception three years go.
Throughout October more than 80 St John educators delivered life-saving sessions in 72 towns and cities.
In addition, 62 schools took part in the successful ‘Save your Teddy’ campaign that saw 6307 students learn how to assist if someone is in cardiac arrest by getting hands-on practice with their favourite teddy bear as part of the internationally recognised World Restart a Heart Day, which falls in the middle of Shocktober.

Source: https://sunlive.co.nz/news/354034-record-number-of-kiwi—s-learn-cpr-in-shocktober.html

Cedarburg officers praised for quick actions in saving woman’s life

CEDARBURG — Four Cedarburg police officers are being praised for their quick, lifesaving actions earlier this month.
On October 1, the officers along with the Cedarburg Fire Department responded to a single vehicle that left Wauwatosa Road and ended up in a field.
Town of Cedarburg Department of Public Works (DPW) employees discovered the driver and reported the incident.
The 31-year-old woman did not have a pulse and was not breathing. The Cedarburg Police Department said she did not want to be identified for the story.
Officers Jon Schemenauer and Casey Ward arrived on scene simultaneously.
“We realized that this was a real life-and-death situation,” said Officer Schemenauer.

Source with video: https://www.tmj4.com/news/ozaukee-county/cedarburg-officers-praised-for-quick-actions-in-saving-womans-life

Clay County installs more than 500 life-saving AED kits in public spaces

More than 500 Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) are being installed in public spaces throughout Clay County on Friday. The devices can boost the chance of cardiac arrest survival to nearly 90% if used in the vital first minute after someone collapses.

Video story: https://www.news4jax.com/video/news/morning-show/2024/10/25/clay-county-installs-more-than-500-life-saving-aed-kits-in-public-spaces/

Isaac’s Story: Save a life. Learn CPR

When a boy at Forbes Middle School goes into cardiac arrest on the football field, his coaches and the school nurse rush to his side and work to save his life. This video tells the amazing story of a community responding to a CPR emergency. It takes a team–not just the fire department, not just the hospital–but a community of caring and trained people. Every individual link in that chain plays a vital role in the outcome. You, too, can be part of that chain.

Ottawa’s first outdoor defibrillator

Ottawa’s first outdoor defibrillator is now accessible year-round at a downtown park. CTV’s Matt Skube has the details.

Video story: https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/video/c3016817-ottawa-s-first-outdoor-defibrillator

VIDEO ARCHIVE- Halloween themed video promotes Hands-Only CPR.

This film directed by cult horror director Vincenzo Natali raised awareness of CPR. It also invited participation in a live CPR training event at Canada’s Wonderland. 5020 people were trained in one day, setting a North American record.

SPOTLIGHT: In a Heartbeat Foundation

Their mission is to prevent death from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and sudden cardiac arrest by raising awareness, enabling research, and donating automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to places that need them.

Learn more: https://inaheartbeat.org/

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