Online CPR Certification Blog

Sadie lay on the street bleeding heavily, dead

Every one of us has his or her traumas in life. Traumas are those kinds of experiences and events, which changed our life’s course or greatly impacted on our lives in one way or the other.

Even though sudden cardiac arrest is one of the most serious epidemic proportions in the world, most sudden cardiac deaths can be prevented with prompt CPR initiation and a quick automated external defibrillator. The heart tends to beat abnormally during a cardiac arrest and it is unable to pump blood to vital body tissues, including the brain.

When you have a MRI scheduled may be the next day or in some few hours time, it is usual to have a panic attach. Just thinking about the machine’s claustrophobic atmosphere is enough to initiate the panic attach, which can even be more frightening than the scan itself.

Head lice are tiny parasitic insects that infest the neck and head areas and usually attach the eggs they lay on the hair shaft base. While head lice are not known to cause any disease, the thing is that they can irritate and cause itching to the scalp.

For any person who has been ill for a couple of years, chances are high that they have had to deal with some medical professionals who might have been either obnoxious or rude. There is that one or perhaps two doctors who you feel has mistreated you in some way by attending to you either negligently or rudely.

It takes about a month from when adult female pinworms lay eggs for them to enter into your body. These eggs laid by a pinworm usually enter into a human’s body through the mouth after which they move to settle into the lower part of the digestive system where they develop into worms.

Implanting a defibrillator helps to research the heart in case one experiences a sudden cardiac arrest. It is a successful way to intervene when the deadly disease strikes. But surprisingly, a new research has shown that despite only few people being screened to determine their eligibility for this defibrillator, only a very small percentage of those found eligible actually receive this life saving device.

Dysthymic disorder or simply dysthymia is a less severe form of depression but which lasts longer than the major depression. Most patients of dysthymia described being depressed for so long and some will feel that they are in and out of being depressed at all times. Dysthymia symptoms are more or less similar to major depression but are less intense.

According to new guidelines issued by the American Heart Association regarding emergency resuscitation, the conventional ABC approach when doing CPR is proving less effective and CAB has been regarded as the new approach to go by. The new standards issued are now directing those rescuing collapsed patients to use the CAB mnemonic.

Generally classified as one of the psychotic disorders, delusional disorder refers to a disorder whereby one has troubles recognizing realizing. In other words, it is ideally a false belief where one interprets the reality incorrectly. And just like any other psychotic symptom, delusions can occur as one part of different psychiatric disorders.