Free CPR class for the community

30 June 2016

18:00 Eastern

(6 p.m.)

Southern Jasper County Ambulance Service is hosting a free 'HeartSaver' CPR class for the community.

Come to the ambulance station and join us.

You'll be glad you did!





If you have questions, please feel free to contact us via sjcas101@gmail.com
 

Hope.

Its a long, long way away, but there's some hope on the Alzheimer's front.


This article from Nova Next explains a recent article published in Nature on using light to stimulate the recovery of memories in mice.

Yes, recovering the memories of mice is a long way from dealing with Alzheimer's in people, but these mice develop the same amyloid protein clusters, or plaques, that are indicative of the brains of Alzheimer's patients.

And, in a disease this devastating, this cruel, any news is good news.

How to: survive your first heart attack

This is important stuff, right?

AARP (of which I'm a dues paying and proud member!) recently posted an outstanding article on surviving your first heart attack.



It's reasonably short.

It's written in plain english.

And it's well worth your time. 



Find it here: http://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2016/heart-attack-hospital-er.html

No, really.  Go do it.  Do it now.

Technology...

When we think about technology and EMS, we often think of what goes on in the back of the ambulance.

But, as this article points out, there are some very interesting developments related to actually finding patients.  

 A new company, RapidSOS, is also engaged in developing a robust set of protocols that, when you signal for 911 service from your cell phone, will try to get the location to 911 dispatch using gps, text, cell networks, 4g, whatever type of connection they can make.

Very exciting tech that isn't about what happens after the ambulance finds you...its all about the "finding you" part.

Sometimes you win!

Kudos to SCCAD, St Charles County Ambulance District, in Missouri.

In one shift, implementing CCR protocols, they revived TWO patients.

TWO!

read about it here or here.

Even one revival under CPR/CCR is a huge win...but two?  Back to back?  In a single shift?

Wow.

When it hits you, you feel no pain

 Ah, my friends, how many times have we talked about music?

Its good for you.

Its even better when you're playing it...and yes, singing in the shower counts!

Here's a study where they took blood tests before and after musical performances.  They found actual changes in genes that support neural growth and flexibility.

So get out that old trumpet from high school.  Dust off that sheet music.  Pump up your brain while having a real good time.

Strong to the finish, baby!

(from my daughter, the nurse nonpareil)  Make sure you get enough magnesium in your diet.  

Apparently, a magnesium deficiency is a challenging thing to identify.  Almost all of the magnesium in your system is in your bones and organs and only trace amounts are in your blood.

And, while it's hard to identify a magnesium deficiency with a simple blood test, there are hundreds of bio-chemical processes that require magnesium to function.  Its estimated that only 25% of the adults actually get the minimum daily requirement for magnesium in their diets.

In the meantime, sodas, coffee, tea, alcohol and sugar all leech magnesium from your system.  I mean, come on!  You don't stand a chance!

Here's a fact sheet worth reading from the NIH.

As always, its best to stay away from supplements.  Your body is designed to properly deal with excess vitamins and minerals when you get them from a food source, but you mess up the machine when you start slamming pills.  

So eat your spinach.  Your white beans, your fish.