{"id":32409,"date":"2016-06-06T09:43:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T01:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/?p=32409"},"modified":"2016-06-29T13:33:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T05:33:38","slug":"cpr-aed-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/2016\/06\/cpr-aed-course\/","title":{"rendered":"CPR + AED Certification Course by the Singapore Heart Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u20184 hours, 4 minutes\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

What would you do with 4 hours of any day? For me, I would have packed it with parental duties, work commitments and perhaps errands!<\/p>\n

What would you do with 4 minutes? Most of us are so busy, 4 minutes would pass by without us even noticing it.<\/p>\n

But reality is that in the mere 4 minutes, our brain and other vital organs would begin to fail if no oxygen is supplied to it. This effect is irreversible.<\/p>\n

The Truth<\/strong>
\nTruth is, if any one, including my loved ones, would collapse in front of me from a heart attack, I wouldn\u2019t know how to help them apart from dialing for an ambulance. Even though our ambulance services\u2019 response time is 8 to 10 minutes (subject to traffic conditions), precious time would have been wasted waiting for medical help to arrive.<\/p>\n

Would we know what to do then? While it is so easy for us to cramp 4 hours of our day with all forms of legitimate activities, if we were to invest that time for a CPR and AED certification course by the Singapore Heart Foundation (SHF), it would equip us to be a life saver\u2026when the need arises. Being helpless in this kind of emergencies can be very very crippling and frustrating. We recently heard the real-life recount of how a friend’s 5 year old was resuscitated via CPR after near drowning at a birthday pool party. He was fished out limp and lifeless but was lucky as one of the party guests was CPR-trained.  After he was revived, the paramedics took over and rushed him to the hospital.  <\/p>\n

\"AED \"AED CPR<\/strong>
\nForget about what you see on TV serials, performing proper CPR is not just putting and pumping your two palms together on someone\u2019s chest. Wrong application of CPR not only wastes precious time, it may cause further harm to the casualty.<\/p>\n

The AED<\/strong>
\nThese days, most public buildings are equipped with an Automated External Defibrillation (AED) machines. These defibrillators deliver a high-voltage shock to a casualty\u2019s heart during a cardiac arrest. Again, in an emergency, every second counts!<\/p>\n

Do you know how to operate an AED? Would you know how to attach the shock pads, when and how to deliver the shock\u2026.if (touch wood) you were to use it on a loved one? In fact, improper use of an AED machine may be deadly to the casualty and even yourself.<\/p>\n

During the course I had so many questions answered, for example:<\/p>\n