Emergency Training Services Nosara

03/01/2019

Teaching basic first aid in schools will be compulsory by 2020 but schools will be supported if they want to start earlier.

04/09/2018

For those that took this past weekend's training courses. Other, newer songs to do chest compressions to at 100 bpm.

03/09/2018

Sending a big thank you to Del Mar Academy for hosting a weekend of basic First Aid and CPR safety training courses! Thank you to all 25 Nosara community members that came out to get certified! Safety training can save lives. I've had a lot of fun connecting with 25 freshly trained community members who are now more prepared to take quick action in the event of an emergency.

25/08/2018

Hola Nosareños! Due to high community demand, I opened up another full day First aid and CPR certification course next Sunday, September 2nd, from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. at Del Mar Academy. In addition to adult/child/infant CPR, AED and choking interventions, this covers emergency interventions for things like allergic reactions, stings/bites, burns, bleeding wounds, splinting, seizures, strokes and heat strokes. Cost is 100$ (manual and e-card included. Only 2 spots available! Please contact me via PM or WhatsApp to get a spot. +1.949.939.2242

15/08/2018

Hola Nosareños! The 4 hour CPR & AED certification course will be offered on Friday, August 31st @ 4:30-8:30 p.m. Location will be at Del Mar Academy. It will cover high quality CPR, AED use, and choking interventions for adults, children, and infants. Participants will earn a 2 year certification e-card via American Heart Association (internationally recognized). Cost is 70$ with manual and e-card included. Several of my previous students have already used their skills since taking the course. It feels good to be prepared and know what to do in case of a life threatening emergency! As of now, I have 4 spots left open so please send a PM via Facebook, or message me on WhatsApp @ +1.949.939.2242

10/08/2018

Hola Nosareños! I'm doing an all day first aid, CPR & AED course for staff at Del Mar Academy on Saturday, September 1st. I also want to offer a 4 hour CPR & AED course to the community either Friday evening or Sunday morning or afternoon/evening. Cost is 70$ including manual and e-card issued same day for a 2 year certification via American Heart Association. The course covers adult, child and infant resuscitation skills. Come have some fun and learn CPR from a seasoned cardiology & resuscitation team nurse who has restarted more hearts than she cares to admit! ;) If interested, please message me directly with your time preference and any questions. Also available via WhatsApp. +1.949.939.2242

01/06/2018

It's CPR week!! It's low season here which is a great time for staff development. Contact me if you want to arrange a CPR certification course. :)

07/02/2018

It's heart month! Looks like the president of the AHA literally picked the best place/time ever to have his first heart attack, a hotel full of the cardio tribe. A well written story of it. CPR saves lives!!! Course dates coming soon.

American Heart Association president John Warner had a heart attack at a heart meeting. This is the full story of what happened, from death to revival.

20/01/2018

First aid and CPR skills are required parenting skills in my book! I'm always happy when new or soon-to-be parents sign up for a course. :)

30/11/2017

A little bit of history on defibrillation. :)

First Human Defibrillation The first successful human defibrillation occurred 70 years ago in 1947. Dr. Claude Beck, a professor of surgery at Western Reserve University (later to become Case Western Reserve University), had been experimenting with an alternating current, open chest device to be app...

12/11/2017

A great illustration of why everyone should know the signs/symptoms of a heart attack and NOT DELAY seeing medical help. This is also why I trained as a cath lab nurse to work on a specialized team at the speed of a nascar pit crew to literally stop heart attacks in progress. The mantra "time is muscle" is drilled into us b/c every minute that a coronary is blocked, the heart muscle is in danger of permanent death. That black area is dead. Coronary artery disease is the number one cause of cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest is the number one cause of death and it happens in the blink of an eye. 80% of cardiac arrests happen OUTSIDE of healthcare settings. This is why I want to teach the world CPR! Learning high quality Resuscitation is the only way to give someone a chance to get treatment and stop this process.

29/10/2017

How much exercise is too much and what are the long term effects of extreme exercise on the heart? While we've known about the dangers of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in athletes and arrhythmias in a runners heart for a long time, this has been a hot topic in cardiology research the last few years. All things in moderation. Also another great reason why ALL exercise teachers/coaches should stay current w/ CPR certifications. https://medium.com//why-ultra-exercise-should-be-combined-with-ultra-nutrition-ultra-sleep-and-ultra-testing-8cf8eea30ef6

In the year 490 BC, the fittest runner in Greece, Phiddipides, ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens, to announce a great victory over the…

25/10/2017

High quality "pit crew" style CPR is not a new concept. This has been the major focus of AHA courses since the early 2000's and it is how I've always practiced as an ACLS certified resuscitation nurse. And guess what? It definitely improves survival rates. If you are going to learn to do CPR, come learn how to do it the best way for survival with me.

An amped-up CPR method is saving lives in Charleston County, as firefighters and paramedics throughout the area have completed training on a new CPR technique called high performance CPR.It’s no longer just about mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and checking p

03/10/2017

Focusing on cardiovascular health will ultimately keep your entire body more healthy.

26/06/2017

CPR should be considered a life skill for all. Bystander CPR saves lives.

07/06/2017

An excellent argument for EVERYONE to learn CPR!

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05/06/2017

Taken from my AHA instructor community:
How a 14 year old Girl Saved Her Mother's Life

The signs of trouble started shortly after dinnertime.

That was when my mother started to have difficulty breathing & had to use her asthma medication.

The first call when out to the restaurant, where my sister had gone to dinner. No cell phones back then, it was 1977.

As things went from bad to worse, I placed another call to my sister - “Mom’s not doing so well. Can you come home?” I remember her saying they were just getting ready to leave & would be there shortly.

Just as my sister & brother in law walked in the door, my mother, who was on the couch in the living room, lost consciousness.

I remember thinking: ‘Thank God they’re here. They’ll know what to do.’

But I quickly realized as my sister went to the kitchen phone to call for help, my brother in law DID NOT know what to do & I had better do something.

Thanks to Mr. Earnest, my 5th grade teacher at Bass Lake Elementary School, I KNEW WHAT TO DO!

You see, 4 years earlier, Mr. Earnest had made us learn CPR!

It had been something they’d started teaching to the public & he decided his class would learn it! I don’t remember us practicing on mannequins but I do remember taking a written test! He called it “The Lifesaving A,B,C’s!”

So I asked my brother in law to help me move my mother to the floor & tried again to get her to respond. When she didn’t – I started to talk myself through the A,B,C’s.

Funny, I could remember the alphabets but NOT the numbers – I remembered there was enough oxygen in my breath so I just started breathing…….

I can’t tell you how long it took for the sheriffs to arrive – but when they did, they took over & my mom was transported to the hospital.

I often think about what would have happened if I’d never learned CPR and how my life would have been so different if Mr. Earnest had never taught us those lifesaving A,B,C’s.

When I had the chance to become an instructor – I jumped on it! I love being an AHA instructor! For me, it’s giving people that same opportunity to save a loved one’s life. I want them to know just what to do!

I came up with an analogy I use and I’d like to share it with you:

To get somewhere in a car you have to have 2 things present; 1) some gas in the gas tank, 2) a fuel pump that takes the gas & delivers it to the engine so it can keep running!

People are just like cars! We have gas tanks – they’re called “our lungs” and we have a fuel pump – called “our heart”. Together, they keep the engine – “our brain” getting all the gas it needs! Our gas is OXYGEN!

CPR is simply taking the place of what is missing to make sure there are no interruptions and our brain gets all the gas it needs!

Oh, and AED's are the “jumper cables”!

06/05/2017

Rainy season is here! Perfect weather and time of year to take time out and learn some life saving skills. Let me know if you are interested in doing a certification course this month or next so we can start setting some dates. :)