How The Science of #CPR ( and using AeD) Can Improve Survival of Cardiac Arrest Patients
Remember the show Rescue 911 on channel 9?
I just loved watching it as a child, maybe that's the reason why I took up Pre-Med in college. Stories there narrated by William Shatner were mostly about heart attacks/cardiac arrest and since I've had heart problems myself, I became the person who is constantly paranoid. I try to tell myself that it is nothing serious, but still always thinking the worst.
I am currently on no medications but I noticed some pressure in the middle of my chest lately, making me more paranoid than ever. Learning about CPR and other Life Saving techniques is truly vital nowadays.
Its really important that every generation knows the importance of CPR and other first aid measures that we can all do to save someone's life or your life in the future.
Did you know that Sudden Cardiac Arrest kills more people than Colon Cancer, Breast Cancer, and Prostate Cancer combined?
We don't often hear this on the news unless a celebrity succumbed from it, so I think it is time to know more about this condition and how to immediately respond.
It is so unfortunate that 5% of the victims actually death by standard CPR before actual help arrives.
Remember the incident recently at The Condura Skyway Marathon? Two runners died while running. That only proves that Cardiac Arrest can happen to everybody, even the healthy ones. And when there is a delay in CPR, chance of survival is low.
What really happens during Cardiac Arrest?
During Tim McGough's talk at the Zoll and Health Solutions' Science of CPR event recently, he cleared up some important and confusing points regarding the difference between a Cardiac Arrest and a Heart Attack.
A Heart Attack is generally a blockage in the arteries of the heart that supplies blood to the heart tissue, while a Cardiac Arrest, on the other hand, is generally an electrical problem that can happen to anyone, young or old.
What generally happens is that there is an electrical problem and the heart begins to quiver or fibrillate.
There are different types of Cardiac Arrest but this particular one he mentioned during the talk was a special case-- Commodio Cordis. A very shocking type of Cardiac Arrest, according to him.
It occurs when a sudden blow to the chest is struck and the patient becomes immediately responsive and succumbs afterward to Ventricular Fibrillation. This can strike a young, conditioned athlete.
When a freak accident happens like this, one could really extend the life of a person with the proper way of CPR, applying Defibrillator, and Resuscitation.
One of the key factors of good rescue is getting the AeD ( Automated external Defibrillator ) to the patient's side as fast as possible. It is fortunate that around the world, so many corporations are bringing in AeDs and becoming more prevalent and saving more lives. In addition to that, we need to know and learn how to use them. And before to actually use an AeD, people can actually start CPR. As time goes on, your chance of survival dramatically increases. The longer the patient wait, the chances of survival is low or zero even. As each minute goes by, you lose 10 % chance of survival. The faster, the better.
There is a way to extend the timeline, merely by providing high quality CPR. When you get to 10 minutes, instead of zero percent, you have a nearly 60% chance of survival. Unfortunately too often, nothing occurs even we know there's already a problem.
For an effective CPR, it can provide good circulation and oxygen around the body and will build profusion pressure inside the heart. CPR is the beginning of it all and the only treatment non-shockable rhythms.
Finally, we have a device that can actually measure the chest compression. The Real CPR Help, introducing the Patented Accelerometer Techonology built into the CPR sensor.
This tiny sensor that can measure the gravitational force and the data can be converted into velocity. Velocity over time can calculate distance which is the chest displacement or compression depth. That would let the health care provider see a 115 times per second the compression rate and depth and relay the information to the user so they can make a change to the actual rescue. Getting the rate and depth right together is a very difficult skill indeed. This sensor would make an AeD easier to handle.
It is also difficult and impossible to interpret a cardiac rhythm during the motion of CPR, but by filtering the ECG, it can minimize interruptions.
You can possibly own an AeD at home but of course some are requiring medical prescriptions to own one like the AeDplus. A training is needed for anyone who wants to own it but it is very much designed to be used by nearly anyone. That is one product that can be easily used in a home environment.
I just loved watching it as a child, maybe that's the reason why I took up Pre-Med in college. Stories there narrated by William Shatner were mostly about heart attacks/cardiac arrest and since I've had heart problems myself, I became the person who is constantly paranoid. I try to tell myself that it is nothing serious, but still always thinking the worst.
I am currently on no medications but I noticed some pressure in the middle of my chest lately, making me more paranoid than ever. Learning about CPR and other Life Saving techniques is truly vital nowadays.
Its really important that every generation knows the importance of CPR and other first aid measures that we can all do to save someone's life or your life in the future.
We don't often hear this on the news unless a celebrity succumbed from it, so I think it is time to know more about this condition and how to immediately respond.
It is so unfortunate that 5% of the victims actually death by standard CPR before actual help arrives.
Remember the incident recently at The Condura Skyway Marathon? Two runners died while running. That only proves that Cardiac Arrest can happen to everybody, even the healthy ones. And when there is a delay in CPR, chance of survival is low.
What really happens during Cardiac Arrest?
During Tim McGough's talk at the Zoll and Health Solutions' Science of CPR event recently, he cleared up some important and confusing points regarding the difference between a Cardiac Arrest and a Heart Attack.
A Heart Attack is generally a blockage in the arteries of the heart that supplies blood to the heart tissue, while a Cardiac Arrest, on the other hand, is generally an electrical problem that can happen to anyone, young or old.
What generally happens is that there is an electrical problem and the heart begins to quiver or fibrillate.
There are different types of Cardiac Arrest but this particular one he mentioned during the talk was a special case-- Commodio Cordis. A very shocking type of Cardiac Arrest, according to him.
It occurs when a sudden blow to the chest is struck and the patient becomes immediately responsive and succumbs afterward to Ventricular Fibrillation. This can strike a young, conditioned athlete.
When a freak accident happens like this, one could really extend the life of a person with the proper way of CPR, applying Defibrillator, and Resuscitation.
One of the key factors of good rescue is getting the AeD ( Automated external Defibrillator ) to the patient's side as fast as possible. It is fortunate that around the world, so many corporations are bringing in AeDs and becoming more prevalent and saving more lives. In addition to that, we need to know and learn how to use them. And before to actually use an AeD, people can actually start CPR. As time goes on, your chance of survival dramatically increases. The longer the patient wait, the chances of survival is low or zero even. As each minute goes by, you lose 10 % chance of survival. The faster, the better.
There is a way to extend the timeline, merely by providing high quality CPR. When you get to 10 minutes, instead of zero percent, you have a nearly 60% chance of survival. Unfortunately too often, nothing occurs even we know there's already a problem.
For an effective CPR, it can provide good circulation and oxygen around the body and will build profusion pressure inside the heart. CPR is the beginning of it all and the only treatment non-shockable rhythms.
Finally, we have a device that can actually measure the chest compression. The Real CPR Help, introducing the Patented Accelerometer Techonology built into the CPR sensor.
This tiny sensor that can measure the gravitational force and the data can be converted into velocity. Velocity over time can calculate distance which is the chest displacement or compression depth. That would let the health care provider see a 115 times per second the compression rate and depth and relay the information to the user so they can make a change to the actual rescue. Getting the rate and depth right together is a very difficult skill indeed. This sensor would make an AeD easier to handle.
It is also difficult and impossible to interpret a cardiac rhythm during the motion of CPR, but by filtering the ECG, it can minimize interruptions.
You can possibly own an AeD at home but of course some are requiring medical prescriptions to own one like the AeDplus. A training is needed for anyone who wants to own it but it is very much designed to be used by nearly anyone. That is one product that can be easily used in a home environment.
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