Like smoke detectors, every home should have a defibrillator
Like smoke detectors, every home should have a defibrillator As a MICA Paramedic (pictured), I spent much of my working life turning up to corpses. In many…
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When is the right time to start CPR?
Too often, bystander confusion over what to do, prevents cardiac arrest patients receiving help in time. So, we asked the experts: when is the right time to…
Training to think fast, act faster
Consider an Olympic sprinter. She spends hours every day training herself to automatically respond to the retort of the starter’s gun; training to think fast, act faster,…
Why we need Good Samaritan laws
One reason the sudden cardiac arrest mortality rate is so high is that so many go unwitnessed. The “sudden” element of sudden cardiac arrest is a rapid…
Panic stops lives from being saved
Saying panic stops lives from being saved sounds like a big claim – but the numbers stack up. When Arthur Dent first sets eyes on The Hitchhiker’s…