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3 Actions To Address The SCA Survival Disparity In Communities Of Color
Bridging the gap in CPR access with culturally competent instruction and access to AEDs in communities of color.
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How To Be A Compassionate Clinician In One Easy Step
When we were in our late 20s, my husband, Will, got cancer. When he was 30, he got cancer again, unrelated to the first time. When he was 34, he died in his sleep, but I wouldn’t let him go.
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The Meaningful Thing that One Paramedic Did During My Husband’s Medical Emergency
This is Lieutenant Gregg. He is one of the first responders who helped us when my husband’s heart stopped beating in his sleep three years ago. On his way up the stairs to our bedroom, Lt. Gregg stopped briefly in
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Lockdown, Love, and Life-Saving CPR: A Mother’s Day to Remember
I will never forget May 11, 2020; my husband will never remember. It was an out-of-body experience. Part of my brain was solely focused on what I needed to do. The other part was watching us from a third-person perspective
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The Night Telecommunicator-CPR Saved My Husband’s Life
On May 11, 2020, I woke up in the middle of the night to my 34-year-old husband dying in our bed. Of course, I didn’t know he was dying. There was no reason to assume that his perfectly healthy heart