http://mycprpros.com/blog MyCPRPros' CPR, First Aid, & Emergency Care Blog Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:27:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Did you catch the startling announcement in the news today? What announcement you ask? Well, this afternoon the American Heart Association issued a press release promoting hands-only CPR also referred to as compression-only CPR. The timing of this announcement was somewhat unusual (at least by AHA standards), since the next ... http://mycprpros.com/blog/2008/04/01/hands-only-cpr-now-endorsed-by-the-american-heart-association/ Well, exciting news! As of last week we have a new office location in Cornelius. We will be sharing an office with a close friend of mine, Corey Creed, whose company Hippo Internet Marketing offers Lake Norman and Charlotte SEO training classes. Corey and his wife and my wife and ... http://mycprpros.com/blog/2007/08/12/new-office-location/ We are happy to announce that MyCPRPros has two new instructors, Christine and Leticia. Christine is both a firefighter and EMT and will be teaching our ACLS and PALS classes, along with other advanced courses. Leticia is a former Red Cross instructor who has been away from the training world ... http://mycprpros.com/blog/2007/08/01/meet-our-new-instructors/ Well, answer these questions for me: Are you tired of spending 3-5 hours on a weekday evening or Saturday learning CPR & First Aid when you have been through the same class for the last 10 years? Do you have internet access? Would you rather spend a few hours ... http://mycprpros.com/blog/2007/06/01/online-cpr-training-is-it-for-you-part-1/ Well this week summer poked her head out from under the spring blanket. When I saw her, I inquired, "Summer, is that really you?" She replied coyly, "I'm here on spring break", and then added "See you again on summer vacation". Yes, summer has come early this year on Lake ... http://mycprpros.com/blog/2007/05/31/summer-is-that-really-you/ I read an interesting article today on the JEM website about the use of wireless phones in calling 911 in an emergency. In the nutshell, the "less" in "wireless" stands for less effective.The 911 emergency dispatch system has not kept up with the latest technologies. The explosion in the use ... http://mycprpros.com/blog/2007/05/10/landline-phones-still-best-for-911/ Here is an interesting news story I found this morning on CNN.com. It is reported that a dog named Toby saved his owner's life when she was choking. The owner, Debbie Parkhurst, of Calvery, Maryland says that she was choking on an apple when her furry rescuer pulled her to ... http://mycprpros.com/blog/2007/03/29/furry-rescuer-saves-choking-woman/ The National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) just released the findings of its Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD). The full study results are published in the March/April issue of Child Development. Research for this study started in 1991, when parents of 1,364 children in ... http://mycprpros.com/blog/2007/03/26/child-care-behavior/ If you were following the news last week you no doubt saw or read a story about a study in Japan that showed that permanent brain damage was less likely when victims of cardiac arrest were give compression only CPR (also called cardio-cerebral resuscitation or CCR) as opposed to those ... http://mycprpros.com/blog/2007/03/23/compression-only-cpr/