Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Focuses on CPR
This Sunday, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition will air a new episode featuring Red Cross CPR preparedness training. Country music celebrity Clint Black will be joining the Extreme Makeover team in building a new home for the Mattingly family, who are known for their willingness to help others in their community.
The Mattingly family share an inspirational story of how Melissa Mattingly was able to aid her husband at the scene of a car accident. As a trained EMT (Emergency Medical Technician), she was able to call upon her Red Cross training to give him care at the scene of the accident. Clint is expected to demonstrate the importance of CPR and AED (Automated External Defibrillator) training during the episode. According to Clint,
I feel it is essential to be trained in first aid and CPR, including how to use an AED. I was pleased to volunteer for the ‘Extreme Makeover Home Edition’ episode and proud to support an organization that teaches these lifesaving skills.
Staff of the Big Rivers Chapter of the Red Cross in Owensboro, Ky., with Clint Black
CPR training is offered by Red Cross chapters – you can look up a course near you through our website. There are many options available, and anyone can take them! There is even a blended learning option that allows you to take an online course initially, and then go through a skill check in person with a Red Cross instructor.
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Being a firefighter/paramedic all too often do we see the other side of things when an AED is not available or CPR is not attempted. Statistics Prove that with an AED and good quality CPR, a persons chance of survival is increased to as much as 60%. It is because of these odds and being that SCA(sudden cardiac arrest) took my mother at the age of 42 that I became a firefighter/paramedic and also a small business owner who promotes and sells AED’s along with teaching CPR in the community. I would just like to take a moment to say Great Job on promoting such awareness. Business and residents alike have fire alarms, burglar alarms, and fire extinguishers. Why in the heck would you not have a device that your almost 1000% more likely to use around??
If you need anything, Please feel free to ask.
Thank you ,
Tom Gade
Cardiac Advantage
tom@cardiac-advantage.com
I am not sure where all the confusion is. I am a Red Cross Instructor & Instructor Trainer.
As per the 2005 Guidelines- If you have taken a Community Class you should have learned a CPR ratio of 30 compression to 2 breaths. If you are a HealthCare Provider/ Professional Rescuer and you are doing 1 Person CPR you s…hould have learned 30 compression to 2 Breaths for an Adult, a Child, or an Infant. If you are doing 2 Person CPR the ratio for an Adult is 30 compressions to 2 Breaths, for a Child and an Infant the Ratio becomes 15 compressions to 2 Breaths. For the infant it can be done but many people feel that 1 person on an infant is better as they are so tiny.
For the people who say that this debate makes them not want to help all I can say is that if you start providing continue to do so until help arrives. As long as you perfom the skills to the level at which you were trained; and in the manner in which you were trained; you will not be successfully sued!
If fear of being sued is that strong- please at least call 911 so Advanced Medical Care can assist this person. I am in my 30′s and know first hand that CPR can save a Life. Mine was. By a very well trained individual who made the decision to act and save a Life for that I will always be greatful! Learn CPR, great trained and educated so you too might beable to Save A Life! Don’t let Fear get the best of you!