Understanding Healthcare

The basic vital signs monitors measure the five main bodily functions, body temperature, pulse rate, respiration rate, blood pressure, and blood oxygen saturation.

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Tags: defibrillators, exam, medical equipment, vital signs

Everyone’s looking for ways to cut costs these days, but the FDNY has taken it a bit too far. According to the NY Daily News, Assistant Chief of EMS John McFarland recently cancelled all tune-ups on the department’s LifePak 12 defibrillators and cardiac monitors and ordered that all expired units are to be kept in
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AEDs (Automatic External Defibrillator) have been hitting headlines recently… saving lives when they are available, and prompting lawsuits when they are not.
As one of the leading causes of death in the United States, SCA (Sudden Cardiac Arrest) claims more than 310,000 lives every year . The tragedy is that most of these deaths are preventable.
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14-year-old Joshua Miller headed to the bench on the sidelines of the football field after making a play. Seconds later he collapsed. Coaches, medical personnel and parents ran to his side, fearing that he had suffered from dehydration or a concussion. By the time they realized that Joshua was in cardiac arrest, he was dead.
When
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