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New address is:
7311 Galilee Rd Suite 150
Roseville CA 95678

By Diane Ako and Duncan Armstrong

HONOLULU (KHNL) - Life saving defibrillators are becoming more common in public places like malls, condos, and offices. But believe it or not, some companies afraid to install one because they’re afraid of somehow getting sued if the victim dies. A new bill would provide protection against that.

A weekend family outing is now a special event for 44 year old Brian Eatmon, who almost died seven months ago while at work at Bubba Gumps. “Next thing I know, I was waking up in the hospital, like why am I here, what’s going on? I was told I was at the broiler, took a step back, and collapsed.”

Eatmon had a heart attack. A coworker revived him with AEDs, or automatic external defibrillators. “I was in a coma for three days and that following week I was home.”

Now, he’s a big supporter of having AEDs in public spaces. “If there wasn’t any AEDs there or she [the coworker] wasn’t working that day, I wouldn’t be here today.”

He’s even become a CPR trainer, to help others have the second chance that he got. “Things change. I’m very grateful I have a second chance to be with my family, especially my son.”

You’ve heard of the Good Samaritan law. It protects from liability those who aid others who are hurt. But what law protects the companies who provide the AEDs, or AED program? There’s a new bill - House bill 1537 - that would do that. As with the Good Samaritan law, this is intended to reduce the hesitation to assist, for fear of being sued or prosecuted for unintentional injury or wrongful death.

Representative Tom Brower (D- Waikiki, Kakaako, Ala Moana) co-introduced the bill. “We don’t want there to be problems for anyone to use defibrillators and be worried about lawsuits that may result in them.”

Don Weisman, Hawaii communications and marketing/ government affairs director at the American Heart Association Pacific/Mountain Affiliate, explained, “There are still lawyers out there who consult with their clients and tell them they have concerns about liability. this law would take away any liability. It clarifies that anyone who establishes an AED program would be immune from lawsuit.”

There are hundreds of businesses in Hawaii who could be affected by the bill. Businesses who may be contemplating putting up AEDs in their workplace, who might now do so because of the security this bill would provide.

It would encourage more people to save lives- so that people like Eatmon can get back to theirs. “I can do things with my son, pursue my passion of cooking, have a normal life,” he smiled, sitting with his wife and child. “I’m even going to try to open my own catering business.”

The so-called Defibrillator Bill is expected to pass this session without opposition.

Of the 1,056 who responded to the State of Resuscitation survey, 88% said bystander CPR intervention is an important factor in boosting survival, along with getting patients to doctors more quickly (77%), better data collection and sharing (73%), automated technologies (66%), and real-time feedback on chest compressions (65%).The survey also found that more than half the respondents believe that poor survival rates from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) are related to the aging population, and about 25% of respondents believe obesity is the most important factor in low survival rates.

About 30% said CPR feedback devices would have the greatest impact on improving the quality of CPR.”While we’ve made significant advances to improve resuscitation efforts, more needs to be done. The State of Resuscitation survey offers valuable insights on how we can build upon already existing practices, including increasing public involvement and implementing technology to help save more lives,” ACEP President Dr. Nick Jouriles said in a news release from the organization.

“The results clearly show that it is necessary for communities to encourage more CPR training, offer more access to a broader range of critical lifesaving technologies, and report sudden cardiac arrest cases more consistently,” Jouriles said.”The optimal treatment of patients who suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrest requires a well-coordinated system of community members, emergency medical services (EMS), emergency department, cardiology and critical care services,”

Dr. Arthur B. Sanders, a professor of emergency medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, said in the news release.”Community programs include early access to the EMS system and training citizens in CPR. Over the past decade, there have been important advances in the science of resuscitation. Unfortunately, implementation of the scientific advances has lagged in many communities,” Sanders said.”This survey reinforces the need to provide more education about CPR including the teaching of hands-only CPR. It also highlights the need for communities to monitor their survival data and implement changes that can improve all aspects of the system of care that can result in improved survival from SCA,” he concluded.–

Robert PreidtSOURCE: American College of Emergency Physicians, news release, Nov. 7, 2008

Got to tell you buddy, it’s darn hard to get any work done today because of all the wonderful comments I’m getting about you and your class from my team!

Oh and you’ll be amused to learn that Luke’s new nickname is “Little Sternum”!  Of course we can’t resist demonstrating with our fingers just like you did as we say it or just walk by.  Thank goodness he’s a good sport otherwise we may need to use some of that first aid you taught us!

Seriously, everyone, myself included, truly felt like you were an old friend of ours coming in to train us.  Thanks to your personality, energy and hilarious sense of humor, you never lost our attention.  When you needed to explain something complex about anatomy so we could better understand a life saving procedure, you did so in language we could understand.

Thank you also for walking the floor with me and taking a look at our evac map.  Of course any little tips you might have to help me build a great team, it will be very much welcomed.

Truly, thank you again Jeff.  Please know that you are welcome at QuickLogic whenever you’re in the neighborhood and I would be more than happy to be a reference if you ever needed one.

L. V.

Executive Office Manager and
Benefits & Wellness Manager
QuickLogic Corporation

When Rocklin resident Mark Storace woke up in the hospital, he had no idea what happened to him.

His wife told him the story of how he died. She happened to be home with him when his heart stopped.

“I hear this big thud,” Cyndi Storace explained. “And it was a really weird feeling I got that this wasn’t right. I went running into the exercise room and he was face down on the treadmill.”

She immediately called 911 and summoned help; firefighters stationed at Rocklin Fire Station No.3; just a mile away.

“His face was blue,” Captain Rick Holmes remembers. “When we got there he looked like a crumpled mess, in a fetal position, against the wall with his face into the treadmill.”

“I kept thinking, ‘no this isn’t happening,’” Cyndi said. “We have too much more to do with our lives. At that point, I put all of my faith into the fire department.”

According to the American Heart Association, nationwide more than 95 percent of sudden cardiac arrest victims die before reaching a hospital, resulting in approximately 250,000 deaths each year, some with no heart problems.

The firefighters performed CPR on Mark and shocked his heart nearly three times to get him to the hospital alive.

“We don’t know the end result of the call,” said fellow firefighter engineer Chad Vert. “We could save them and never even know. I think we learn how to cope with that. I did what I could in my realm and I have to be happy about that. Otherwise we wouldn’t sleep at night.”

That was Aug. 7, 2007, and after weeks in the hospital through rehabilitation and recovery Mark had a new lease on life.

“The first thing they usually ask me is ‘did you see a white light,’” said Mark. “Maybe I did. Maybe I didn’t, but I don’t remember.”

Indeed he said it was more of a tally light, giving him purpose.

“You know the saying ‘God is not done with you.’ There is something else I need to be doing.”

Tuesday night in front of the Rocklin City Council, Mark brought everyone that saved his life together to say thank you with a life-saving award of recognition.

From his wife that discovered him and made the call, to the Rocklin dispatcher Pam Henley who sent firefighters Holmes, Vert and Alton Tate to revive him, he calls them the chain of survival.

Holmes explains, when the heart stops, victims have between four and six minutes to get oxygen to the brain.

“The fact that we were two to three minutes away from his house was a blessing. He’s standing here as proof of why we have to have better response times,” Holmes said.

Fellow firefighter Tate is gratified, but humble.

“We train all the time for this stuff. We make sure we’re on top of this skill. Whatever the outcome, hopefully it’s a good one. If it’s not, we knew we did what we were supposed to do,” Tate said.

“I owe them everything,” Mark’s wife told them. “Thank you, very much, for saving my husband.”

Thanking his lifesavers is the first step on Mark’s new mission in life.

“I feel really good doing it,” he said. “Talking to people about the chain of survival, about how people can get involved. I feel a sense of duty.”

He has now started a chapter of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association in Sacramento to get the word out about CPR, Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Automatic External Defibrillators.

“If there is an available AED, use it. At minimum, it will tell you don’t have to use it. Once you put the pads on, it will tell you whether or not the person needs a shock. It will tell you to keep doing CPR,” Mark said.

Mark is now working with Rocklin, Roseville and Auburn police departments to get AEDs in all of the patrol cars, just in case they need one as first responders.

“We know the lord had a hand,” Cyndi said. “He knows that Mark has a lot more to do. It wasn’t his time.”

• Patient assessment and management
• Basic and advanced airway management
• Needle chest decompression and fluid resuscitation
• Spinal motion restriction - rapid extrication, short back board, helmet managment, log roll, and long back board/ scoop stretcher utilization
• Extremity immobilization and traction splint application

MOSCOW (TICKER) —The shocking death of 19-year-old New York Rangers prospect Alexei Cherepanov has prompted a Russian lawmaker to raise the possibility of negligence on the part of paramedics.

Cherepanov died Monday after suffering a heart attack and collapsing on the bench during Avangard Omsk’s Continental Hockey League game against Vityav Chekhov.

According to Russian investigators, Cherepanov suffered from chronic ischemia, a medical condition in which not enough blood gets to the heart and other organs.

Pavel Krasheninnikov, a member of the State Duma, said in a television interview that “there are elements of negligence here.”

Krasheninnikov, who also sits on the Russian Hockey Federation’s supervisory council, claimed that emergency workers waited too long to respond to Cherepanov and did not have a defibrillator at the site.

The NHL requires that a defibrillator - a machine used to shock the heart - be available at every rink in the league.

Former Rangers captain Jaromir Jagr, who signed with Avangard in the offseason, had just finished a shift with Cherepanov and was talking to him just before the Russian suddenly collapsed.

“He passed out on the bench and they couldn’t revive him,” Avangard coach Wayne Fleming said. “He just laid back, passed out and went kind of white.”

TSN of Canada reported Monday that was no ambulance was present at the arena and that it took between “15 and 20 minutes” to transport Cherepanov from the arena to the hospital.

Fleming was asked about the emergency procedures that were followed after Cherepanov collapsed. However, he told ESPN.com that team officials asked him not to comment.

The 17th overall selection in the 2007 draft, Cherepanov had seven goals and five assists in 12 games for Avangard this season.

Fleming said a team of doctors failed in their attempts to revive Cherepanov. He was then taken to a hospital, where further attempts to revive him also were unsuccessful.

Cherepanov’s death brought to mind two recent incidents in the NHL in which tragedy was avoided due to the fast response of EMS workers.

In November 2005, paramedics likely saved the life of Detroit Red Wings defenseman Jiri Fischer, who went into cardiac arrest on the bench during a game at Joe Louis Arena.

Florida Panthers right wing Richard Zednik also faced a potential life-threatening situation when he suffered a severe neck injury when he was cut by the skate of a teammate in a contest in Buffalo this past February. Medical staff was able to contain the bleeding and get him to a hospital.

The NHL requires that an ambulance be on site for every league game and also mandates that medical staff be proficient in advanced trauma life support.

Sat Sep 27, 2008, 09:28 PM EDT

Prattsburgh, N.Y. -
The quick response by a sheriff’s deputy and ambulance staff helped save a man’s life Saturday, sheriff’s office officials said.
When the call came in at 7:31 a.m. that Rodney Bulkley, no age or address reported, went into cardiac arrest and was unresponsive, Deputy Erin Boyle responded to Air Flo, 40 S. Main St. She found Bulkley lying on the cement floor face up with no pulse. Boyle applied the automatic external defibrillator (AED), which instructed her to administer a shock.
The next instructions were to continue cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) at which point a Prattsburgh ambulance arrived. Bulkley was placed in the back of the ambulance and ALS Rural Metro took over his care. He was then taken to Corning Hospital, deputies reported. No additional information on his condition was available.
Boyle said she was simply in the right place at the right time, emphasizing the combined effort by all those involved. She said she made use of the training that all deputies receive.
“When something like that happens you fall back on your training,” Boyle said. “I’m a certified first responder and I’ve been a lifeguard for eight years. You just know what has to be done and you just do it. It helped that I was in the Prattsburgh area and I arrived in about three minutes.”
Thanks to an AED program established in 1999 by Undersheriff David Cole, each deputy carries an AED in his or her patrol vehicle.
“If I didn’t have an AED in my car, maybe the circumstance would have been different. I’m thankful for having the AED in my car,” Boyle said. “Today is my fourth day (on road patrol). I’ve been with the department three years in November.”
Cole said this is the fourth time a person has been saved since the AED program began and the second time this year. He said Deputy Jen Reed saved a man in Hammondsport last spring. The man was given three shocks from the AED and taken to Ira Davenport Memorial Hospital.
Cole said when someone goes into cardiac arrest, an AED does not restart his or her heart, but stops it so that it will start on its own.
“The deputy’s job is to use the AED to actually shock the heart. The defibrillator will stop that person’s erratic heart rhythm,” he said. “Deputies, once they revive somebody, they generally will have the ALS and the ambulance come right after them. Our policies are that the deputy will step aside if a person of higher skill, like an EMT, comes in.”
Cole said when a person is in cardiac arrest, there is roughly an eight to 10 minute window before his or her heart stops. If someone is not actually in cardiac arrest, the machine will not administer a shock, he said.
“She aggressively did a hell of a job,” Cole said of Boyle. “We want them to be aggressive on it. Deputy Boyle saved this guy’s life. There’s no doubt about it. I do know he was sitting up and talking in the ambulance after the shock.”
Cole said there will likely be an event held to honor Boyle, but said he needs to discuss it with Sheriff Richard Tweddell first.
Emergency 911 dispatchers will contact state police and deputies on ambulance calls and tell them where the ambulance is going, Cole said.
“Without that, this would never have happened this morning. For that reason, 911 is a key player,” he said