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ACLS Renewal 2025: What Healthcare Providers Need to Know

It is crucial for healthcare providers to keep their ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) certification current in order to provide...

Complete Guide to ACLS Certification: What You Need to Know

Are you prepared to elevate your healthcare career and make a substantial difference in emergency medical scenarios? ACLS certification...

When to Renew Your ACLS Certification

If you work in the medical field, especially in emergency or critical care, you probably already know what Advanced Cardiovascular Life...

New Jersey dad hailed as heroes after performing CPR at Paterson softball game

PATERSON, NJ — Two dads from Paterson, New Jersey are being called heroes after their weekend on the softball field assistant-coaching...

New York Teacher’s first aid training helps save the life of a student - CPR Classes

HILLSDALE - A teacher at Pascack Valley High School saved a student’s life earlier this month thanks to training she was required to get...

CPR: A neglected but important part of fighting the opioid crisis

Opioid overdose is a frightening and potentially life-threatening event. Rescue drugs like naloxone are lifesaving, but the value of CPR...

Why did CPR change from A-B-C to C-A-B?

How the American Heart Association Rearranged CPR ? If you have been trained in CPR for a very long time, you might wonder why—or...

Keep your heart healthy

The best way look after your heart is with a healthy lifestyle. Be smoke-free Being smoke free is one of the best things you can do to...

Should You Get ACLS Training?

ausmed https://www.ausmed.com/articles/ Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) is the next step up from basic life support (BLS)....

Love Your Heart By Knowing the Difference Between a Heart Attack and Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Until it happens to us or someone we love, most don’t know the difference between a heart attack and a sudden cardiac arrest. You’re...

Workplace CPR training helps hotel employee save a guest’s life | BLS, PALS, ACLS and First Aid

On a crisp day in early autumn, the Hampton Inn in Greenville, North Carolina,

Reversing prediabetes linked to fewer heart attacks, strokes

People who reverse their prediabetes may lower the risk of heart attack, stroke and death, a new study suggests. With prediabetes, a...

Live Better with Life’s Simple 7

Life's Simple 7 is defined by the American Heart Association as the 7 risk factors that people can improve through lifestyle changes to...

Here's to a healthy 2021, with resolutions from heart doctors

Lea en español Deep in their hearts, everyone has to be looking forward to a fresh start in 2021. And who would know better about matters...

AHA, AMA urge widespread self-measured blood pressure monitoring

With doctors' visits down during the COVID-19 pandemic, experts say keeping tabs on your blood pressure at home is even more important....

Don’t forget the 3 Ws – and the vaccine when it’s ready

Deaths from COVID-19 have crested 300,000 in the U.S. just as a newly approved vaccine started being distributed across the country, with...

These scans could help quickly detect COVID-19 in stroke patients

Scans of the upper lungs that already are part of evaluating some stroke patients also could help save time in detecting COVID-19 earlier...

Heart disease, stroke more deadly in 'socially vulnerable' counties

Your chances of dying from heart disease or stroke are higher if you live in a county considered socially vulnerable due to factors such...

Smog exposure linked to higher risk of cardiac arrest

Exposure to ozone, the main ingredient in smog – even at levels below federal safety standards – may increase the risk of going into...

Why people fear performing CPR on women – and what to do about it

Women are less likely than men to receive CPR from a bystander. But why? The reluctance, new research suggests, may be fueled by worries...

Read powerful stories of individuals whose lives were saved by the heroic act of CPR, revealing the transformative impact of this life-saving technique.