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01/08/2024

Is one of your 2024 goals to learn something new? Expand your skillset by taking a first aid class. You will:

🩹 Learn lifesaving skills.
🩹 Become prepared for emergencies.
🩹 Meet new people.
🩹 Give back to your community.

Which reason inspires you most to take a class? Tell us in the comments!

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Need a class? Two more this year!

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08/23/2023

The core symptoms of autism are:
social communication challenges and

restricted, repetitive behaviors.

Symptoms of autism may:
begin in early childhood (though they may go unrecognized)
persist and
interfere with daily living.
Specialized healthcare providers diagnose autism using a checklist of criteria in the two categories above. They also assess autism symptom severity. Autism’s severity scale reflects how much support a person needs for daily function.

Many people with autism have sensory issues. These typically involve over- or under-sensitivities to sounds, lights, touch, tastes, smells, pain, and other stimuli.

Autism is also associated with high rates of certain physical and mental health conditions.

Social communication challenges
Children and adults with autism have difficulty with verbal and non-verbal communication. For example, they may not understand or appropriately use:

Spoken language (around a third of people with autism are nonverbal)
Gestures
Eye contact
Facial expressions
Tone of voice
Expressions are not meant to be taken literally
Additional social challenges can include difficulty with:
Recognizing emotions and intentions in others
Recognizing one’s own emotions
Expressing emotions
Seeking emotional comfort from others
Feeling overwhelmed in social situations
Taking turns in conversation
Gauging personal space (appropriate distance between people)
Restricted and repetitive behaviors
Restricted and repetitive behaviors vary greatly across the autism spectrum. They can include:

Repetitive body movements (e.g. rocking, flapping, spinning, running back and forth)
Repetitive motions with objects (e.g. spinning wheels, shaking sticks, flipping levers)
Staring at lights or spinning objects
Ritualistic behaviors (e.g. lining up objects, repeatedly touching objects in a set order)
Narrow or extreme interests in specific topics
Need for unvarying routine/resistance to change (e.g. same daily schedule, meal menu, clothes, route to school)

08/22/2023

What causes broken heart syndrome?
Researchers don’t fully understand the exact cause of broken heart syndrome. However, they believe a stressful event like a divorce, car accident, or job loss can cause it. When you react to physical or emotional stress, your body releases stress hormones in your blood like adrenaline, noradrenaline, epinephrine, and norepinephrine. Experts think that these hormones temporarily interfere with your heart’s function.

A small percentage of people with broken heart syndrome (also known as takotsubo cardiomyopathy) can’t identify any stresses that may have triggered their episode.

Broken heart syndrome:

Disrupts your heart’s normal, steady rhythm (pattern of heartbeats).
Causes part of your heart to temporarily enlarge (the lower part of your left ventricle).
This leads to even more forceful contractions in other areas of your heart.
These changes cause temporary heart muscle failure.

08/22/2023

What Are Symptoms of ARDS?
Patients with ARDS are short of breath, often to a distressing level. They are breathing faster and their heart is beating faster. They may have pain as they try to take a breath. As the oxygen in the blood falls, their fingernails and lips may have a bluish color.

How Is ARDS Diagnosed?
When patients present with the above symptoms, doctors will do a chest X-ray to look for fluid in the lungs and a blood test to find out the severity of the oxygen starvation. ARDS has to be separated from heart failure and chronic lung disease. Doctors suspect ARDS if they can identify a lung injury. If you have heart disease or chronic lung disease, this may be more difficult because ARDS and heart problems have similar symptoms.

08/22/2023