Am I at risk of cardiac arrest?
Am I at risk of cardiac arrest? According to this study published in Circulation, the incidence of sudden cardiac death is approximately 1 per 1,000 inhabitants of…
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Differences between heart attack and cardiac arrest
Heart attack or sudden cardiac arrest? These two terms are frequently interchanged to describe the same thing. This can be dangerously misleading given their differences. How do…
CellAED achieves CE certification
Sydney start-up secures European regulatory approval for world-first personal AED technology [SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA] Wednesday May 26 2021: Privately-owned medical device start-up, Rapid Response Revival (RRR) has secured…
Why we invented CellAED®
Since we started Rapid Response Revival, I’ve been asked many times why we invented CellAED. More than 11 people die every minute, somewhere in the world, from…
Closing the survival gap: John Haines, LivCor
John Haines literally wrote the book(s) on first aid training, and closing the survival gap.
John is pioneer on teaching people to respond to emergencies and save lives. His first aid textbooks resources have sold close to 2 million copies. He’s even had a first aid recovery position named after him.
In this Rapid Response Revival interview, John talks about closing the survival gap of sudden cardiac arrest. That is, those critical minutes between a patient losing consciousness, and the arrival of emergency medical services.
John shares his experience on what needs to be done to save a life in those first few minutes.
80 per cent of sudden cardiac arrests occur in the home. When that happens, what can untrained, and often unprepared, people do to save a life?