Life-saving skills are actions involving rescue, resuscitation and first aid. A pilot project in Ottawa is teaching young indigenous people across Canada. Indigenous people are also called aboriginal and they are referred to First Nations, Metis and the Inuit people. They are the original inhabitants of Canada. The goal is training first aid and cardiopulmonary […]
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An off-duty New Westminster police officer was regarded as a hero for executing CPR on a man who collapsed at a local hockey rink. On March 12, Const. Curtis Heath was at Planet Ice waiting for the game of his own team to start when he noticed an upheaval on the ice. According to Heath,
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A SeaBus passenger suffered a seizure and progressed into cardiac arrest around 8:45 PM while travelling from Waterfront Station. A good Samaritan acted and executed CPR until the paramedics arrived at the scene. A North Vancouver resident, Brian Counihan was the one who saved the life of the man. According to Counihan, he was not
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One man was truly thankful for the rapid action of friends when he experienced a heart attack while on a golf course. Andy Fox returned to the Westfield Golf and Country Club on Thursday. Upon reaching the fifth tee, he and his friends remembered the events of last August. Fox executed a drive and suddenly
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Performing CPR without mouth-to-mouth resuscitation is not enough to convince most Canadians to execute CPR on strangers. The latest guidelines published in 2010 recommend that bystanders without training who witness an adult collapse should do away with the “rescue breaths” and focus on deep and rapid chest compressions instead. The reason for this is that
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One should at least execute CPR on an individual who is suffering from cardiac arrest even without training. The reason for this is that the alternative for the victim is likely death. This is the message of Canada’s emergency physicians. According to the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP), it must become a moral obligation
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A footage from a dashboard camera from an RCMP cruiser recorded the dramatic efforts to save a man overdosing on fentanyl. This incident occurred in Athabasca which is around 145 km north of Edmonton. The best word to describe the effort – “heroic” claims deputy commissioner Marianne Ryan, commanding officer of the Alberta RCMP. They
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