Online CPR Certification Blog
Understanding Medical Terms
Date: November 26th, 2013
When someone talks of a muscle in the pelvis, it will be simple to understand and answer any question that is related to that. However, when the same question is posed and the words ‘obturator internus’ muscle replaces pelvic muscle, it will be very confusing and more so to a layperson.
Time-saving Health App
Date: November 25th, 2013
The future technology in health sector
The advent of technology will change our lives to the better, but that is only if we implement fully. In the hospitality industry, for instance, a lot of time is lost when customers wait for waiters so that they can order for the food they want.
Better Communication with Patients
Date: November 24th, 2013
Some of the medics we have in our medical institutions use complicated terms when communicating to their patients, and in most of the times when they only need to pass simple information across.
Absurd Emergency Definition
Date: November 23rd, 2013
The new Medicaid programs have caused a crisis in various medical institutions, who are trying to balance the application of the programs and service provision. Budget crisis caused by the programs has given the directors a reason to alter their service provision standards to cut costs and reduce risks that come about because of the government’s failure to pay for the services rendered. The alteration is a risk to the health of the patients because.
Strep throat complications
Date: November 22nd, 2013
Unfortunately, two centuries later, it still remains a complete mystery as to what could have been the actual cause of the premature death of the Austrian composer, at age 35 in Dec. 1791. Many theories have been presented as people try to put up the pieces of his untimely death.
cardiac arrest survival
Date: November 21st, 2013
The researchers are not so sure of which reasons could be behind this improvement. However, they strongly suspect that this could have resulted from the way hospitals now treat cardiac arrest patients and also an improvement on how bystanders respond after a person collapses suddenly. Published in Journal Circulation, the study found that the death rate in 2009 among hospitalized Americans who had suffered from cardiac arrest was slightly below 58 percent
CPR usually leads to ribs being broken
Date: November 20th, 2013
During the research, the team also found out that some patients are more vulnerable to having their ribs and other bones broken than others. When studying some patients who were admitted to hospitals in Korea, nearly a third of them who received resuscitation after CPR had at least one of their ribs broken and about 4 % had a broken sternum or breast bone.
The survival rate of ‘hands-only’ CPR
Date: November 19th, 2013
According to a large study done in Japan, the odds of cardiac arrest victims are going to survive the situation with less brain damage are very low. The researchers said that their findings support some statements made by American Heart Association that the compression only CPR could be a comparable option to traditional technique that involves chest compressions together with mouth to mouth breathing.
Lives can be saved by just CPR videos
Date: November 18th, 2013
According to the study, people who viewed a demonstration showing what needs to be done during a cardiac arrest had a better idea on the action they should take in such a situation compared to those who didn’t.
Religious disbelief among analytical thinkers
Date: November 17th, 2013
Even though making other people think analytically didn’t have a big impact as such on the way they did see the world, the impact was noticeable still, said Will Gervais, the study lead author, a psychology graduate in Canada at University of British Columbia. During the study, Gervais noted that they those who participated didn’t enter being devout believers and left being committed atheists.