Tourniquets Over the years, CPR and First Aid guidelines have waxed and waned on the use of tourniquets. For a decade, their use an integral technique in bleeding control. In past years, guidelines instructed lay responders to limit bleeding control to direct pressure for controlling bleeding. Finally in 2010, The American Heart Association guidelines included…
It is January and most of us have put on a few pounds in the past month or so. While it is actually January, I actually think of Halloween as the start of the holiday season. And I think the holiday season ends up morphing into “Eating Season”. We started eating and slowing down after…
It is holiday season. Your favorite relative just sent your child a greeting card that sings. When opened, it starts playing one of those songs you haven’t heard enough of on the radio or out at the mall. Yea – you just can’t get enough of jingle bells, so you can have it every…
theadfadfasdfadfasdfasasfdasdfaasdfadsfafdadsfsdfaffasd Sports fans must all be scratching their heads lately. What will the future hold? Answers are short. I am of course talking about concussions in sports being all over the news. Is anyone really that surprised though? The signs, dangers and treatments for concussions aren’t any mystery to anyone who has taken a CPR…
If you are a parent, child safety is of paramount importance. If you are not a parent, you probably wouldn’t be reading this, lets be honest. No judgement of course. In the United States, we love to watch TV. Inadvertently, we develop assumptions and fears about child safety that really, aren’t very likely to…
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….
