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How to Provide Rescue Breaths for Cardiac or Respiratory Arrest
By CPR St. Louis at March 25, 2012 | 8:36 am | 0 Comment
Watch this video by Kimberly from CPR St. Louis as she teaches the proper way to give rescue breaths to someone in either respiratory arrest or cardiac arrest. Both the pocket mask and bag mask techniques are explained. Go here for more videos on AHA Basic Life Support cpr classes in St. more...
How to Use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
By CPR St. Louis at March 25, 2012 | 8:14 am | 0 Comment
In this video, Kimberly from CPR St. Louis, will show you how to use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED). An AED is used to shock a victim's heart to get it back into a normal sinus rhythm. Often victim's in cardiac arrest exhibit cardiac rhythms such as ventricular fibrillation and pulse-less ventricular tachycardia. Again, the function of the AED is to shock the more...
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Lung Cancer by Alyssa Nourse
By CPR St. Louis at March 21, 2012 | 7:51 am | 0 Comment
Lung cancer also known as bronchogenic carcinomas can be found in both smokers and non-smokers and can be from family history. A quarter of all people with lung cancer have no symptoms when the cancer is diagnosed. These cancers are usually identified incidentally when a chest X-ray is performed. The other ¾ of people develop some symptoms. The symptoms are due to direct more...
Leukemia by Amy Kaiser
By CPR St. Louis at March 16, 2012 | 9:41 am | 0 Comment
Leukemia is a type of cancer that affects the white blood cells in the bone marrow. When someone has leukemia, abnormal white blood cells, called leukemia cells, are created. The leukemia cells do not die off fast enough resulting in too many bad cells crowding the normal cells. Acute leukemia is when the cancer progresses quickly and chronic leukemia worsens slower. more...
Down Syndrome By Stephanie Addison
By CPR St. Louis at March 13, 2012 | 6:47 am | 0 Comment
Down syndrome is a trait that occurs from troubles with genetic information in an unborn child. This lifelong condition causes delays in the way which a child develops, mentally and physically. Children with Down syndrome take on similar physical characteristics, such as a flattened face, an upward slant in the eyes and smaller ears. Mentally, Down syndrome affects the more...
