Helping Hearts Training

01/16/2022

Fast action by pediatric cardiologist, access to an AED save 47-year-old father of three’s life on the ice.

10/15/2017

Bruce Township man's life saved by early efforts of EMT-certified agent, Chippewa County Sherrif's Deputy and Department of Natural Resources Officer

08/23/2017

http://www.fitnesshealthland.com/one-month-heart-attack-body-will-warn-6-signs/

Sadly, heart attacks are one of the most common injuries in the nation.   It has been reported that your body will give warnings signs of a heart attack up to six months before it occurs. Have you experienced any of these symptoms? If so, you may need to schedule an appointment with your health …

08/22/2017

Would you know what to do if your child wasn't breathing? Read this article to get the facts on the importance of learning CPR.

07/14/2017

https://www.facebook.com/AHACPR/posts/1481217058606792

Learn the skills you need to keep your workplace safe!

06/06/2017

How A 14 Year Old Girl Saved Her Mothers Life in Community Voices
Posted on June 5, 2017 at 11:09 AM

Carol Rickard
The signs of trouble started shortly after dinnertime.

That was when my mother started to have difficulty breathing & had to use her asthma medication.

The first call when out to the restaurant, where my sister had gone to dinner. No cell phones back then, it was 1977.

As things went from bad to worse, I placed another call to my sister - “Mom’s not doing so well. Can you come home?” I remember her saying they were just getting ready to leave & would be there shortly.

Just as my sister & brother in law walked in the door, my mother, who was on the couch in the living room, lost consciousness.

I remember thinking: ‘Thank God they’re here. They’ll know what to do.’

But I quickly realized as my sister went to the kitchen phone to call for help, my brother in law DID NOT know what to do & I had better do something.

Thanks to Mr. Earnest, my 5th grade teacher at Bass Lake Elementary School, I KNEW WHAT TO DO!

You see, 4 years earlier, Mr. Earnest had made us learn CPR!

It had been something they’d started teaching to the public & he decided his class would learn it! I don’t remember us practicing on mannequins but I do remember taking a written test! He called it “The Lifesaving A,B,C’s!”

So I asked my brother in law to help me move my mother to the floor & tried again to get her to respond. When she didn’t – I started to talk myself through the A,B,C’s.

Funny, I could remember the alphabets but NOT the numbers – I remembered there was enough oxygen in my breath so I just started breathing…….

I can’t tell you how long it took for the sheriffs to arrive – but when they did, they took over & my mom was transported to the hospital.

I often think about what would have happened if I’d never learned CPR and how my life would have been so different if Mr. Earnest had never taught us those lifesaving A,B,C’s.

When I had the chance to become an instructor – I jumped on it! I love being an AHA instructor! For me, it’s giving people that same opportunity to save a loved one’s life. I want them to know just what to do!

I came up with an analogy I use and I’d like to share it with you:

To get somewhere in a car you have to have 2 things present; 1) some gas in the gas tank, 2) a fuel pump that takes the gas & delivers it to the engine so it can keep running!

People are just like cars! We have gas tanks – they’re called “our lungs” and we have a fuel pump – called “our heart”. Together, they keep the engine – “our brain” getting all the gas it needs! Our gas is OXYGEN!

CPR is simply taking the place of what is missing to make sure there are no interruptions and our brain gets all the gas it needs!

Oh, and AED's are the “jumper cables”!

04/26/2017

Most strokes are preventable. And a large percentage of the ones that happen are treatable with the right care, right away. It's a matter of knowing what to do, taking action and spreading the word.

04/20/2017

By Carolyn Crist(Reuters Health) – Lifeguards who oversee open waters, such as oceans and lakes, may be able to deliver CPR effectively in a moving i

01/28/2017

https://www.facebook.com/stacy.harp.35/posts/10155009718424173

01/11/2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgmledxFe8

You're watching the official 2012 Hands-Only CPR instructional video from the American Heart Association http://www.heart.org/handsonlycpr. Learn how to perf...

12/04/2016

What a great way to say thank you!

When he pressed "play" on the video, he never expected to see this.

11/11/2016

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