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10 years ago

Published on August 9, 2011 By cprguy

Here  is an article that ran yesterday in the Erie Times-News. The article is about my late brother Kyle who died of sudden cardiac arrest 10 years ago. The article states that I began selling AED’s after my brother passed but I actually had already owned Cardiac Care & Safety, Inc. for 3 years when this [...]

My Heart Map Challenge

Published on July 19, 2011 By cprguy

Just this morning I was alerted to a great local challenge. It is called the My Heart Map Challenge and you can learn more about it here http://www.med.upenn.edu/myheartmap/aed.html. Sudden Cardiac Arrest is the leading killer in the US. The numbers are staggering. Many of these victims can be saved with early defibrillation through the use [...]

Stayin Alive

Published on December 27, 2010 By cprguy

I’m sure when the Gibbs brothers were composing Stayin’ Alive back in the late 70′s they never dreamed that 40 years later their song would become the anthem for CPR. The recent update to the Basic Life Support (BLS) CPR  guidelines indicate that the compression rate should be at least 100 beats per minute (the [...]

Compressions-Only CPR

Published on November 5, 2010 By cprguy

For months now I have been getting questions about this “no breathing in CPR” thing. The American Heart Association did release instructions on what they are calling hands-only CPR. You can see what it’s all about at   http://handsonlycpr.org/ . Essentially there are 2 steps when you have an unresponsive adult that has suddenly collapsed: 1) [...]