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• What a Bystander was Taught Saves a Teacher’s LifeTom Sirmons
  Written by Tom SirmonsUpdated October 2026 with current CPR and AED guidance. When paramedics arrived at Sarah Zumwalt Middle School in Dallas, they found a teacher in cardiac arrest. His heart was in ventricular fibrillation, or VF, a dangerous rhythm that can cause the heart to stop pumping blood effectively. But something important had already happened before EMS ...
• Crossing the Real Finish Line: Bystander CPR Saves a RunnerTom Sirmons
  Written by Tom SirmonsUpdated October 2026 with current CPR and AED guidance. A half-marathon is supposed to end with a finish line, a medal, and a deep breath. For one 40-year-old runner in San Jose, California, the real finish line became something else entirely. According to the original account, he was only about a tenth of a mile ...

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• Nursing News: Passive Leg Raising and Elevating the Head during CPR Prove to Be BeneficialDonna Ryan
  Around 275,000 people, per year, experience OHCA (out-of-hospital cardiac arrest) incidents. This finding was reported by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine archives. This number pertains to people living in Europe. U.S. Statistics for OHCAs It has also been found that a large number of ...
• AED Misconceptions: What People Often Get Wrong About DefibrillatorsDerek Walborn
  Estimated reading time: 8 minutes Automated external defibrillators, better known as AEDs, can look intimidating if you have never used one. Movies and television probably haven’t helped. We have all seen dramatic scenes where someone yells “Clear!” and a patient is shocked so hard that their entire body jumps off the table. Real AED use is much less ...
• Rescue Breathing or CPR? What’s the Difference?Carol Theis
  “Do I give breaths?” “Do I start chest compressions?” “What exactly is rescue breathing?” These are common questions in CPR classes, and the terminology can sound more complicated than it really is. The simplest way to understand it is this: CPR is used when the heart is no longer pumping effectively. Rescue breathing is used when a person still has ...
• How to Do CPR Chest Compressions the Right WayTroy Bowman
  CPR Chest Compression Technique: How to Push Hard, Push Fast, and Help Save a Life Estimated reading time: 12 minutes Sudden cardiac arrest does not usually give people much time to think. The tragedy that just happens… One moment, someone may be standing, talking, or sitting at the dinner table. The next, they collapse. They do not respond when ...

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