Oregon CPR

06/01/2026

We challenge you to learn to save a life; the power is in your hands
June 1-7 is National CPR and AED Awareness Week. Did you know that about 70 percent of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen in a home or a home like setting? If you give CPR in an emergency, you will most likely be trying to save the life of someone you love. Lives can be saved when more people learn CPR and know how to use an AED. Be the difference for your loved ones. Learn how to provide CPR and use an AED today!
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05/05/2026

We are so excited to be offering more classes! Check out our website for classes that meet your schedule

Lane County's best-reviewed, AHA-accredited CPR training facility. We offer CPR, First Aid, BLS, ACLS, PALS and more. Group classes available.

04/28/2026

PeaceHealth is installing four new outdoor automatic external defibrillators around the area, calling them "Save Stations." HEARTsafe Eugene Springfield, HEARTsafe South Lane.

PeaceHealth is installing four new outdoor automatic external defibrillators around the area, calling them "Save Stations."

04/28/2026

Awesome AEDs out in our Community!!! Thank you, HEARTsafe Eugene Springfield, HEARTsafe South Lane,

Heart attacks could become less deadly thanks to new public AEDs around Eugene. See link below ⬇️

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04/28/2026

We celebrated Adina Henderson, FNP, for her courageous efforts to continue CPR on a person who collapsed in an airport in another state while she was traveling with her family. She had been retrained two days prior at Oregon CPR and remembered Corrine Koke's voice in her head to “take the extra second, look down at the pads before placing them”.
Our HEARTsafe Eugene Springfield, HEARTsafe South Lane, and community efforts extend across state lines to other communities in need. Thank you, Adina! ❤️

We celebrated Adina Henderson, FNP, for her courageous efforts to continue CPR on a person who collapsed in an airport in another state, while she was traveling with her family. She had been re-trained two days prior at Oregon CPR and remembered her instructors voice in her head to “take the extra second, look down at the pads before placing them”.

Our HEARTSafe Community efforts extend across state lines to other communities in need. Thank you, Adina! ❤️

04/14/2026

I just covered this in class this evening. Woman have a much lower success rate of surviving cardiac arrest because people are afraid to bare the cheat. EVERY woman would choose life over Modesty!
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Edith Lynch arrived by ambulance in last night's episode of The Pitt. Her complaint was right-sided chest pain that barely responded to nitroglycerin. Her first EKG looked clean.

It wasn't. The leads were in the wrong position.

Dr. Robby caught the error and addressed the medic responsible directly. The anterior leads had been placed too low because, in his words, she had large breasts and he didn't want to move them.

Eight minutes later, she went into VTach arrest. They shocked her back. She survived. A corrected EKG then revealed a massive lateral STEMI the first test had completely missed.

Dr. Robby called the medics out in front of the whole room. He turned to the female staff and asked: death with modesty, or life with brief nudity?
Every woman in the room raised her hand for life.

Here's what the research says about what happened on screen.

A review published in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine found that paramedics place EKG leads incorrectly on female patients specifically because of fear or embarrassment about exposing breast tissue. GE HealthCare's clinical guidance confirms that electrode misplacement affects more than 50% of all EKG cases, with women at higher risk due to anatomical differences that providers are undertrained to navigate.

This is not a rare mistake. It's a systematic one.

Women are already more likely than men to have their cardiac symptoms dismissed as heartburn, anxiety, or stress. Edith Lynch came in having what she described as "serious heartburn." She was having a heart attack.

The character who caught it, Nurse Dana, is the same person who had to physically restrain an assault patient last week to protect her team. She's not incidental to this show. She's the moral center of it.

No fictional drama should be doing more to protect women's lives than the actual system is. And yet.

If you are a woman and you've ever had an EKG in an ambulance or an ER, you have the right to ask whether your leads were placed correctly. You have the right to ask them to redo it.

04/08/2026

Here at ESF, we are community care partners with HEARTsafe Eugene Springfield. The program is a national program with the goal of getting CPR and AED training to more people in order to have higher community survival rates. You may have seen HEARTsafe Eugene Springfield tents at community events with volunteers including our recently retired EMS Battalion Chief, JoAnna, teaching people who stop by the basics of CPR and AED use. This March, the crews out at the Airport station had the opportunity to host 7 classes in CPR/AED training to 47 community members through our partnership. The Airport station crews did a great job and are looking forward for next year's opportunity.
eug.spr HEARTsafe Eugene Springfield

04/08/2026

Pre-screening kids and saving lives! 🫶

A recent Teen Heart Screening and Teen Heart Health Expo at North Eugene High School flagged 41 students with previously undetected health concerns, five of whi

03/06/2026

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02/28/2026

Wow, thank you, Eugene Weekly, for getting our message out about our free classes! We had another save this week from a student. Less than 2 days after she renewed her class, she found herself providing hands-only CPR at the airport. We love hearing those success stories!

The HEARTSafe training uses real adult dummies to simulate CPR. Photo courtesy of Katrina Purdy Oregon CPR Creates Superheroes HEARTSafe is back this February with non-certified CPR training Whats-Happening by Grace MangaliPosted on 02/26/2026 Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Faceboo...