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04/28/2026

PeaceHealth is installing four new outdoor automatic external defibrillators around the area, calling them "Save Stations." HEARTsafe Eugene Springfield, HEARTsafe South Lane.

PeaceHealth is installing four new outdoor automatic external defibrillators around the area, calling them "Save Stations."

04/28/2026

Awesome AEDs out in our Community!!! Thank you, HEARTsafe Eugene Springfield, HEARTsafe South Lane,

Heart attacks could become less deadly thanks to new public AEDs around Eugene. See link below ⬇️

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04/28/2026

We celebrated Adina Henderson, FNP, for her courageous efforts to continue CPR on a person who collapsed in an airport in another state while she was traveling with her family. She had been retrained two days prior at Oregon CPR and remembered Corrine Koke's voice in her head to “take the extra second, look down at the pads before placing them”.
Our HEARTsafe Eugene Springfield, HEARTsafe South Lane, and community efforts extend across state lines to other communities in need. Thank you, Adina! ❤️

We celebrated Adina Henderson, FNP, for her courageous efforts to continue CPR on a person who collapsed in an airport in another state, while she was traveling with her family. She had been re-trained two days prior at Oregon CPR and remembered her instructors voice in her head to “take the extra second, look down at the pads before placing them”.

Our HEARTSafe Community efforts extend across state lines to other communities in need. Thank you, Adina! ❤️

04/14/2026

I just covered this in class this evening. Woman have a much lower success rate of surviving cardiac arrest because people are afraid to bare the cheat. EVERY woman would choose life over Modesty!
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Edith Lynch arrived by ambulance in last night's episode of The Pitt. Her complaint was right-sided chest pain that barely responded to nitroglycerin. Her first EKG looked clean.

It wasn't. The leads were in the wrong position.

Dr. Robby caught the error and addressed the medic responsible directly. The anterior leads had been placed too low because, in his words, she had large breasts and he didn't want to move them.

Eight minutes later, she went into VTach arrest. They shocked her back. She survived. A corrected EKG then revealed a massive lateral STEMI the first test had completely missed.

Dr. Robby called the medics out in front of the whole room. He turned to the female staff and asked: death with modesty, or life with brief nudity?
Every woman in the room raised her hand for life.

Here's what the research says about what happened on screen.

A review published in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine found that paramedics place EKG leads incorrectly on female patients specifically because of fear or embarrassment about exposing breast tissue. GE HealthCare's clinical guidance confirms that electrode misplacement affects more than 50% of all EKG cases, with women at higher risk due to anatomical differences that providers are undertrained to navigate.

This is not a rare mistake. It's a systematic one.

Women are already more likely than men to have their cardiac symptoms dismissed as heartburn, anxiety, or stress. Edith Lynch came in having what she described as "serious heartburn." She was having a heart attack.

The character who caught it, Nurse Dana, is the same person who had to physically restrain an assault patient last week to protect her team. She's not incidental to this show. She's the moral center of it.

No fictional drama should be doing more to protect women's lives than the actual system is. And yet.

If you are a woman and you've ever had an EKG in an ambulance or an ER, you have the right to ask whether your leads were placed correctly. You have the right to ask them to redo it.

04/08/2026

Here at ESF, we are community care partners with HEARTsafe Eugene Springfield. The program is a national program with the goal of getting CPR and AED training to more people in order to have higher community survival rates. You may have seen HEARTsafe Eugene Springfield tents at community events with volunteers including our recently retired EMS Battalion Chief, JoAnna, teaching people who stop by the basics of CPR and AED use. This March, the crews out at the Airport station had the opportunity to host 7 classes in CPR/AED training to 47 community members through our partnership. The Airport station crews did a great job and are looking forward for next year's opportunity.
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04/08/2026

Pre-screening kids and saving lives! 🫶

A recent Teen Heart Screening and Teen Heart Health Expo at North Eugene High School flagged 41 students with previously undetected health concerns, five of whi

03/06/2026

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02/28/2026

Wow, thank you, Eugene Weekly, for getting our message out about our free classes! We had another save this week from a student. Less than 2 days after she renewed her class, she found herself providing hands-only CPR at the airport. We love hearing those success stories!

The HEARTSafe training uses real adult dummies to simulate CPR. Photo courtesy of Katrina Purdy Oregon CPR Creates Superheroes HEARTSafe is back this February with non-certified CPR training Whats-Happening by Grace MangaliPosted on 02/26/2026 Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Faceboo...

12/16/2025

Oregon CPR is now offering HeartCode and Blended learning classes! You can check our website for available dates and online training options.
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12/13/2025

Oregon CPR is a proud Sponsor of the PulsePoint Verified Responder Pro and Partner of HEARTsafe. Helping Responders get to you and your neighbors faster.

We are invested in the safety of our community.

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11/19/2025

A great story about how fast someone can recover with high-quality compressions!

Dan Pritchard survived a cardiac arrest at the NCAA Track and Field Championships thanks to fast-acting EMTs.

09/25/2025

Hallmark movie star, 35, died on Vegas birthday trip after staff stopped woman performing CPR on him during medical emergency, lawsuit alleges 😳

Michael Heslin passed away on July 2, 2024, two weeks after he celebrated his 35th birthday with his husband Scotty Dynamo and friends at Javier's restaurant at the ARIA Hotel on the Vegas Strip.

The actor had appeared in the Zoe Saldana-starring series Lioness and made-for-TV movie The Holiday Proposal Plan, and his husband said they were planning to start a family together before the tragedy struck.

In a newly filed wrongful death lawsuit against the restaurant, Heslin's passing was described as 'an avoidable tragedy' that was allegedly the result of 'failures' by the staff to perform lifesaving procedures.

The lawsuit, filed on September 18, says that Heslin was dining at the restaurant when he abruptly collapsed, leading his table to immediately yell for help as they placed him on the floor.

But the staff did not take any action despite Heslin 'exhibiting obvious signs of a medical emergency,' according to the lawsuit.

Another nearby patron then began performing CPR on the actor, but an employee 'forcefully interfered' and 'prevented her from continuing compressions on Michael and interrupted this lifesaving measure,' the filing claims.

Although an AED was in the restaurant, the lawsuit alleges that it was never retrieved, and states that Heslin's friends were 'forcefully removed' from the restaurant as the horror unfolded.

The lawsuit alleges five counts of wrongful death; loss of consortium; negligence; negligent hiring, retention, training and supervision; and gross negligence, per the Las Vegas Review Journal.

It is alleged that after the restaurant staff prevented the other patron from helping Heslin, his friends were 'threatened with arrest' for trying to step in to provide lifesaving efforts.

When Heslin's friends tried to record the incident, the restaurant employees 'demanded' their videos be deleted, according to the lawsuit.

The filing is seeking damages in excess of $30,000, funeral expenses, and punitive damages because Heslin's death was 'a direct and proximate result of Defendants' acts and omissions', it is claimed.

Heslin's husband said in a heartbreaking Instagram post following the actor's death that his passing came as a complete shock, saying that he was 'young, in perfect health, and the doctors have no explanation for what happened.'

'Michael was brilliant, selfless, talented, and a real-life guardian angel,' Dynamo wrote.

'He was the first person everyone would call to share good news with, and he was the perfect person to call if they needed a shoulder to lean on or the best advice.

'He truly was the sweetest, most caring, and loving man on earth, and he brought out the absolute best in everyone who had the pleasure to cross paths with him.'
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