The Beat Goes On CPR & First Aid Training Center

06/04/2025

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01/03/2025

Registration is now open for 2025. Pick a date and register today for CPR, First Aid & AED Training. Classes are taught at the Kempsville Ruritan Club in VA Beach.

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01/06/2024

2024 CPR course dates are now available.

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01/06/2024

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03/01/2023

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06/30/2018

03/23/2018

Bystander AED Use Doubles Chances for Survival

A newly published study on cardiac arrest in large metropolitan areas in the U.S. and Canada shows how a bystander’s immediate use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) has a significant impact on survival rates.

According to a study in the journal Circulation, the chances for survival from cardiac arrest double when a bystander steps in to respond with an AED prior to the arrival of EMS. Even under the best of circumstances, it can take EMS between four and ten minutes to arrive on the scene after a 911 call. Those first few moments are critical to a positive outcome, and the growing availability of easy-to-use public-access AEDs means bystanders can truly make a lifesaving difference.

More than 100,000 cardiac arrests a year occur outside the home. Of the 49,555 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests analyzed in the study, researchers focused on “…those that occurred in public, were witnessed and were shockable. The researchers found that nearly 66 percent of these victims survived to hospital discharge after a shock delivered by a bystander. Their findings emphasized that bystanders make a critical difference is assisting cardiac arrest victims before emergency responders can get to the scene.”

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03/12/2018

HERE ARE 3 SIGNS YOU MAY HAVE CLOGGED ARTERIES:

1. LOWER BACK PAIN

The arteries of our lower back are among the first areas to accumulate plaque. As such, lower back pain is a common first symptom of artery blockage. Lower back pain can occur when reduced blood flow to the back weakens the disks that cushion the vertebrae – leading to painful herniated disks and pinched nerves.

In a study done by the European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, individuals that suffer with chronic back pain are at an increased risk of developing clogged lumbar arteries.

2. CALF PAIN

Arteriosclerosis – the thickening and hardening of the arterial walls – can also block the arteries that deliver blood to the legs. When this happens, it is common to experience pain in one or both calves, a condition known as claudication.

Those that smoke are in a higher risk class than those who do not. Regardless, if this symptom is detected, a doctor’s evaluation should be conducted ASAP. Simple blood tests will be conducted that examine the pulses of the legs, in addition to a couple of other

3. DISCOMFORT OR PAIN OF THE LEGS AND FEET

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a buildup of cholesterol and plaque that can occur in the extremities. PAD often results in discomfort in the feet and legs, potentially limiting the ability to walk. In worst cases, PAD is advanced enough to result in the loss of a limb.

Once again, simple tests will identify arterial conditions such as PAD. During a routine medical exam, a doctor will check the pulse of the feet. In addition, the doctor may also conduct a screening that determines the amount of blood flow to the ankle.

People that have frequent pain or tiredness in the legs should be checked for PAD. Past or current smokers have an increased risk of the disorder, as do those with a family history of PAD or other cardiovascular problems.

11/03/2017

Heart attack deaths are highest during the holiday season.

According to a study published in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association (AHA), the winter holiday season is considered a risk factor for cardiac and noncardiac death.

While researchers don’t know exactly why heart attacks are more common around holidays, they note a number of possible reasons, including changes in diet and alcohol consumption during the holidays; stress from family interactions, strained finances, travel and entertaining; respiratory problems from burning wood; and not paying attention to the signs and symptoms of a heart attack.

Consider the case of Julie Rickman, a 41-year-old stay-at-home mom.

“I felt like we were running around, going everywhere, and I just couldn’t catch my breath,” Rickman said. “I remember, two days before Christmas, we thought I was allergic to my live Christmas tree, and we took it down and got an artificial tree.”

The day after Christmas, Rickman got winded while folding laundry. She thought it was exhaustion but decided to go to the emergency room, anyway. That trip saved her life. Along with two blockages in her heart, doctors also discovered she had suffered a heart attack.

“I have no idea when the heart attack happened. I was one of those women who attributed feeling bad to the holidays and thinking I was exhausted,” she said.

“The progression of heart disease doesn’t happen overnight, so an uptick in cardiac death during the holidays is actually more the acute manifestations of the disease,” said Jorge Plutzky, M.D., a volunteer with the American Heart Association. “Factors like cold weather, stress and dietary indiscretion can contribute to a chain of events leading to more stress on the heart. A cardiac event might be triggered because the heart is working harder.”

Rickman, now an American Heart Association Go Red For Women volunteer, has since changed her approach to the holidays and to life. She cut out processed foods and limits sugar. She also limits social engagements and time spent on social media during the holidays and makes a conscious effort to realize being a supermom might not be reality.

“The biggest challenge is controlling stress,” Rickman said. “I don’t try to do it all. I have my list but it’s not an ongoing list of unrealistic expectations.”

That’s good advice, especially because people who have had a heart attack are at increased risk of another, added Dr. Plutzky, director of preventive cardiology and cardiovascular medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass.

“Make sure the holidays don’t get in the way of taking your medicines and continuing to be attentive to a healthy diet,” he said. “But even when the holidays are passed, these things continue to be issues all year long because heart disease remains a leading threat to America’s health.”

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08/25/2017

How Heart Attacks in Women and Men Are Different

Symptoms—and treatment—depend on your gender.

What you need to know.

By Consumer Reports


The No. 1 killer of men and women in the U.S. continues to be heart disease. But the most obvious expression of the disease—a heart attack—tends to strike women differently.

For one thing, these attacks tend to occur later in a woman’s life. On average, women have their first heart attack at age 72, compared with 65 for men.

Heart attacks in women are deadlier, too: 26 percent of women 45 and older die in the year after their first heart attack, compared with 19 percent of men, according to the American Heart Association (AHA).

To make matters worse, symptoms of the attacks are usually less obvious and more difficult to detect in women. That’s why it’s so important that everyone be aware of these key differences.

How Symptoms of Heart Attacks in Women Differ

Heart attacks in women often have more subtle signs, such as jaw or back pain, nausea, and shortness of breath, according to the AHA, rather than the classic symptoms of a feeling of pain or squeezing in the chest or pain radiating to one or both arms.

As a result, women may be less likely to seek medical help than men are and more likely to be misdiagnosed in the emergency room.

How Care Differs

When a heart attack is suspected, one of the first tests your doctor might want to perform is an angiogram, which checks for blocked or narrowed coronary arteries.

But that test may miss a type of heart disease more common in women, coronary microvascular disease—which damages smaller arteries in the heart—according to research from the National Institutes of Health.

In addition, plaque tends to be spread more evenly through women’s arteries, making it harder to see in a standard angiogram.

So when that test is normal in a woman suspected of having had a heart attack, the doctor should consider performing an intravascular ultrasound to look inside the arteries in more detail, says Suzanne Steinbaum, D.O., director of women’s heart health at Northwell Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.

Anyone who has had a heart attack should be prescribed medications to protect the heart, such as low-dose aspirin as well as blood pressure and cholesterol-­lowering drugs, and be referred to an exercise and a cardiac rehabilitation program.

But research shows women are less likely than men to get referred to those programs, or to go when referred, Steinbaum says.