A fully automatic AED gives a shock automatically, if needed, without the user having to push a button. It also communicates clear, calm, step-by-step instructions that let responders know when a victim is about to be shocked.
Creating an effective program within your facility requires adequate supplies to respond to emergencies and personnel properly trained in performing basic first aid.
70 is the new 40. Ringo Starr celebrated his 70th birthday with a gig at Radio City Music Hall in New York City this summer. Also 70 this year: Al Pacino, Chuck Norris and Raquel Welch.
After the first several weeks of uncertainty, most of the news about the 2009 H1N1 "swine flu" pandemic has been reassuring, according to the Harvard Health Letter, December, 2009 edition.
Every winter, millions of people catch influenza "a viral infection of the airways”and about half a million people die as a result. In the U.S. alone, an average of 36,000 people are thought to die from influenza-related causes every year.
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