CPR w/Julie

09/14/2026

When you are prepared, you notice these things. Alaska vacation, always aware.

09/08/2026

Like our volunteer fire department structures.

When a heart stops, survival is measured in minutes, and the single biggest factor is whether a bystander starts CPR before the professionals arrive. Sweden built a system to put a trained bystander there on purpose.

The country signed up thousands of people trained in basic life support and wired them into the emergency dispatch system through a phone app. When a call reports a suspected cardiac arrest, the software pings every trained volunteer within a short radius. Those close enough drop what they're doing and run for the address while the ambulance is still on its way.

Roughly four in ten times, one of these volunteers is first through the door, so chest compressions often begin minutes earlier than they otherwise would. Those extra minutes often decide whether the patient lives. Researchers who studied the scheme found it measurably raised the rate of bystander CPR, and several other countries have since built their own versions.

08/19/2026

07/20/2026

How many of you would be confident in AED usage without training but an operator on the end of the phone directing you?

Duke Health researchers are dispatching AED-carrying drones to live 911 cardiac arrest calls in North Carolina, testing whether autonomous delivery can beat ambulances by the minutes that decide survival.

07/20/2026

Many of you might not realize, I am a CPR Instructor because I love it. I love education and provide it on many different levels but also, I am EMS. I volunteer on my local department to help protect the people in my area.

06/16/2026

Who doesn't love a baby, pat them and walk them! Class went smoothly with a baby whisperer, thank you Mara Windsor

05/30/2026

Each breath you take contains 21% oxygen. When you exhale it contains 17% oxygen! Pass it on, give breaths!

05/25/2026

Chat GPT thinks I have great writing skills, upside down!