National Work Zone Safety Week – Helpful facts and tips

This week is designated National Work Zone Awareness Week. This week is designed to bring attention to motorist and worker safety and mobility issues in work zones. What is your company doing to raise awareness?Drivers are the most frequent fatality in work zone crashes. Most work zone fatalities involve working-age adults. Rear-end crashes (running into the rear of a slowing or stopping[..]

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Distracted Driving Awareness Month

April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month Each day in the United States approximately 9 people are killed and more than 1,000 injured in crashes that are reported to involve a distracted driver.1 Motor vehicle fatalities are up 6% from 2015, with more than 40,000 people killed in 2017. Types of DistractionsCell Phones Dashboard infotainment systems Struggling with voice assistantsThen the[..]

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Teen’s quick acting saves life with CPR

Nineteen year old Hannah Evans was at home getting ready to leave for work. When she looked outside and saw family friend Becky Garverick, who had been helping Hannah’s parents cut their lawn. Suddenly Hannah saw Becky collapse to the ground. Hannah rushed out to the yard and checked for a pulse and immediately began chest compressions. She called 911 and continued with chest[..]

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Runner’s life saved by CPR

Shortly after finishing his race, Andy Martin collapsed due to a heart attack. Ryan Sanders who is an athletic trainer and a Furman University police officer, preformed CPR and used an AED to save Andy Martin’s life. “You go to the mall and something happens you might be the person walking by, and AEDs walk you through what to do so I just urge people to grab it and it will tell you what you need to do,” Sanders said. Source: WSPA Follow us    like us

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Hockey goalie makes a different kind of save

Oliver Urrego sprang into action March 1 when an opposing player collapsed on the ice during an adult league hockey game at Twin Rinks Ice Pavilion in Buffalo Grove. While the goaltender on Napholz’s team, Mike Tuntland, started CPR, Urrego, 33, took charge of the life-or-death situation. He told other players to get the automated external defibrillator (AED), which the rink installed[..]

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American Heart Association introduces new mobile app

My Cardiac Coach Heart attack is scary and confusing. Recovery shouldn’t be. My Cardiac Coach app available on the Apple App Store or the Google Play is designed to be a personalized recovery toolkit on your smartphone. • Trustworthy information from the experts at the American Heart Association • Interactive lessons to help you learn what you need to know • Progress-trackers for[..]

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Wife saves her firefighter husbands life with CPR

Luke and Jessica Pichette (Photo courtesy of KHQ) Jessica Pichette and her husband Luke were getting ready for bed when the unthinkable happened. Jessica did chest Jessica says her husband began making strange sounds, she thought he was having a stroke. “I started dialing 911 at that time, kind of rolled him of over and at that time he a big deep breathe and then he was gone, he was not[..]

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Man saves wife’s life with CPR

APPLETON, WI (WBAY/CNN) – Andrea Benrud is alive and well thanks to her husband, Luke, and his knowledge of CPR. Luke Benrud took a CPR class so he knew to call 9-1-1 and then started CPR until EMS arrived. “I just remembered chest compressions are most important and you would have to do them harder than you would think you’d have to do them. Especially when it’s your[..]

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Firefighter knows the value of an AED firsthand

Les Morgan knows because his life was saved by the quick response of those around him Feb. 18. The 60-year-old firefighter with Schuylkill Hose Company No. 2 and borough resident responded to smoke in a structure and was handing his son, who is also a firefighter, a fire extinguisher when suddenly he was on the floor not breathing normally. Les Morgan was suffering a cardiac arrest EMS,[..]

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Tech companies are targeting heart disease

           From apps that diagnose irregular heart rhythms to phone cases that claim to measure blood pressure, there has been a wave of technology promising to use our everyday devices — smartphones and wearables — to fight heart disease. But why heart health, and how much can these gadgets really do? Heart disease is the most common cause of death in the world. Heart disease is the[..]

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