Northwest Response First Aid & Safety Blog
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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.…
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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…
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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
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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…
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AEDs on Boats; A Very Good Idea
The Case for Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) Aboard Vessels. Consider that most Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) happen while on solid ground, a city, a home, an urban environment. When this…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Awake During CPR?? WHAT NOW?
This video is from my favorite Doc, ZUBIN DAMANIA, MD. UCSF/Stanford trained internal medicine physician and founder of Turntable Health, an innovative primary care clinic and model for Health 3.0 that was part of…
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