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The importance of AED placement and Stryker’s guide to optimizing accessibility

AED Leader

Programs that teach basic life support and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) are integral. Always check if an AED has a pediatric setting, as this is vital for treating children. Training on AED use is recommended to ensure effective operation. When more people know how to use an AED, survival rates improve.

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Seeing Peter Safar, and his work

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Safar's work, in a series of studies and papers, validated manual methods of opening the airway, in use by anesthesiologists but relatively unknown outside the operating room, as effective and able to be taught and used by lay people. Initiation of closed-chest cardiopulmonary resuscitation basic life support.