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What Questions to Ask During a Medical Emergency or When Providing First Aid?
If you have taken a basic First Aid, CPR/AED class you may have wandered out of the classroom thinking "I'm set"; I can help anyone! You have knowledge, and the skills, but when faced with a sudden illness what questions do you ask? What is important? Did your...
Recreational Boater First Aid, CPR/AED classes at CWB Seattle
Recreational Boater First Aid at CWB Seattle One of the challenges in "First Aid" training for the recreational boater and/or avid sailor is that you have generic classes and hybrid classes with not much in-between. The generic classes leave you wanting, and the...
Environmental Medical Emergencies – Hypothermia
Hypothermia: Causes, Symptoms and Treatments Hypothermia, or abnormally low body temperature, is a dangerous condition that can occur when a person is exposed to extremely cold temperatures. Stay safe this winter by learning more about hypothermia, including who is...
Sharing Lessons Learned for “Safer Seas”
By Dione Lee Most cultures use storytelling or “lessons learned” as a teaching opportunity for passing on information gained from experience that is usually intended to keep the learner out of harm’s way. “This is what you never want to do and I am going to tell you...
Dr. Heimlich Performs Heimlich
Dr. Heimlich's, Heimlich Save Dr. Henry Heimlich, 96, performed the lifesaving technique he invented for the FIRST TIME when a woman choked on her hamburger in the seat beside him. By Joanna Walters in New York For The Guardian The surgeon who gave his name...
How to Stop the Bleed
How to Stop the Bleed Today we live in a world where terrorism, the actions of unstable people, and the dangerous impulses of friends and relatives are very real and becoming increasingly more frequent. Massive bleeding from any cause, but particularly from an active...
Red Cross Licensed Training Providers Group on LinkedIn
Northwest Response has started an American Red Cross Licensed Training Provider Group on LinkedIn. To access the group visit this link: LinkedIn LTP Group
Back To School First Aid Classes
Teachers & Daycare Workers Need First Aid Training Sadly summer is over and Teachers and Day Care workers have headed back into the classroom and playroom. While First Aid /CPR & AED training may be the last item on everyone's list; keep in mind that there is...
AEDs on Boats; A Very Good Idea
The Case for Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) Aboard Recreational Vessels. Consider that most Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) happen while on solid ground, a city, a home, an urban environment. When this happens, we have a rather good chance that Emergency Medical...
First Aid Rules
"If my basic HazMat training has taught me nothing else, it's that if you see a glowing green monkey running away from something, follow that monkey!" Author Unknown, but he/she must be a teacher! The above comment is amusing, but it does emphasize the need to "size...
Fit Testing! More Than A Formality
Why Fit Testing is so important to get right. A Coast Guard Sector Anchorage watchstander received the report of the ammonia leak aboard the Excellence at 1:13 p.m. on a Friday. The Excellence, which was moored in Dutch Harbor, evacuated all 129 crew members from the...
Automated External Defibrillators as Gifts
This morning I felt the chill in the air which told me that summer is making way for Fall, then Winter, and then the Holidays! I should start working on a Christmas gift list, and just don't have enough hours in the day (all that went through my head in about two...