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We do not issue refunds. If you need to cancel or don’t attend the course, you will forfeit your payment.
To reschedule*, you must email us at, ben@gacpr.com, prior to the start of the CPR class. You may only reschedule once.

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AHA requires students to attend the entire class and to respect timely students, no late admittance allowed. You must make a request to reschedule in writing. A $25 rescheduling fee applies.* To reschedule see fee details.

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*Fees apply. – A $25 fee applies if you reschedule within 7 days of the class. – A $10 fee applies if you reschedule at least 7 days before the class.

Latest Post

  • November 24, 2014
  • By cpr_ben

Antibiotic Overuse Puts Us All At Risk

Antibiotic Overuse contributes to MRSA
Antibiotic Overuse contributes to MRSA

Antibiotics are so good when you need them. Antibiotic overuse is so bad, it puts us all at risk.

Antibiotics were discovered and developed over the better part of the past century. Alexander Fleming discovered what he called penicillin in 1929. In 1942, the word antibiotic was first used by a guy named Selman Waksman. This class of drugs has been key in controlling  and curing bacterial infections of a wide variety. Over time, and through antibiotic overuse, bacterial infections have mutated and evolved to resist these drugs. Drug makers have also followed suite, and developed specialized drugs that better fight the mutated infections. Over still more time, and we are talking about a couple decades, a few mutations have emerged that do not respond well to even the most powerful antibiotics.

That spells trouble.

Antibiotic overuse has played a role in the emergence of the following antibiotic resistant infections.

WARNING: Trying to read these infection names may cause mild headaches:

  • MRSA methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus,
  • VRE vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus
  • extended spectrum beta-lactamase

It is safe to start reading here.

These infections have scary names, but it’s their resistance to antibiotics that has really made them scary.

Just so you know, there are infections out there, that you can pick up from gyms, yoga studios and most commonly as well as most frighteningly, in hospitals. These infections are believed to have emerged in the past 25 years due to common antibiotic overuse in several ways. They won’t hurt you – they will kill you.

There are many reasons these bacteria have evolved to be so dangerous.

The big reason – I blame on physicians.  They are not standing up to their patients. Patients go to the doctor while sick with a virus, and demand medication. The physician, who knows that an antibiotic won’t help them, prescribes it anyway. It’s as simple as that. The more an antibiotic is used, the less effective it becomes.

We always encourage students of our First Aid Classes to take care of wounds, even small ones. A small wound should be allowed to bleed freely for a brief time, followed by thorough soap and water washing.

Doctors – please connect your backbone to your knowledge bone. Difficult patients are part of the business of being a physician. Like the abuse of pain killers,  Antibiotic overuse and abuse is going to make your jobs even more difficult. We all know that.

A huge contributor in the rise of antibiotic resistant infections is antibiotic overuse in livestock. Most of the antibiotics used in the United States is used on livestock. The American Medical Association as well as other leading health organizations agree that antibiotic overuse is contributing to a health problem that will be more and more serious as time goes on. Animals consume the antibiotics which we then eat. Over time, we are being slowly dosed with antibiotics, making our system unresponsive to them when we really need them.

Vigilance and awareness only, can help stem the growth and prevalence of antibiotic overuse. Let’s all step up and do our part.