SAD is Just So Sadd Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD is a seasonal depression, usually in later fall and in deep winter. Georgia CPR, the premier Atlanta CPR class company, is in Atlanta, Georgia. Yes, that’s the south. Our location puts us way south of where most SAD is experienced but I will tell you, SAD can still…
Fact: Women deny they are having heart attacks Fact: Women have different signs of heart attacks Fact: Doctors take women less seriously These unfortunate facts blend together into a perfect storm making heart attacks the number one cause of death for women in the United States. A large part of teaching CPR classes is busting…
Chest Pain and heart attack is something we sometimes see in movies and on TV. The actor winces, brushes his brow or puts a fist to his chest. We usually are being tipped off that the actor is getting ready to have a heart attack. We sit there and think, “oooh, this guy is getting…
Tourniquets Over the years, CPR and First Aid guidelines have waxed and waned on the use of tourniquets. For a decade, tourniquet use is included as 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…
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…
