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CPR training and female patients by Rebekah Carrow, Project Manager, Emergency Skills, Inc. Studies have shown that women are less likely to receive CPR in public. Bystanders report being afraid of hurting a female patient or being accused of inappropriate touching. Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of women. The American Heart Association (AHA) has been raising awareness about

December 22nd would have been Lucille Niebur’s birthday. Lucille, the founder of Emergency Skills, Inc., passed away earlier this year. I worked under her tutelage for over two decades before she retired in 2006. As the first EMT instructor in New York City, Lucille saw firsthand the condition in which people were arriving at the hospital after medical emergencies in

For NYC Public schools, care should be taken when selecting the staff members who will complete the CPR/AED training and will become members of the building response team. A CPR/AED responder needs to be available whenever a medical emergency occurs in the school and code blue alert is called.

Heart Disease is the leading cause of death for adults in the united states, with 614,348 in 2017. Is this what you think of when you think of what a heart attack looks like?