Just thought I would share

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So today at work I tought my first CPR class as a lead instructor. I was a little unprepaired, but for the most part I had the whole thing covered. I had a little support from my boss who is currently expired for his teaching certification.

I was nervious when I first started, but as I got rolling it was actually quite fun to do. All of the students did well with the skills, as well as the written portion. The only wrong answers were on questions that I didn't like. Those were questions that were poorly writen, or had multiple right answers. I feel that it reflects well on me that I can teach and have everyone get it. I want to teach more now.

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Are you teaching the newly advocated method with double the chest compressions? Of is that not really officially official yet?

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I had that question today. No we aren't teaching that yet. The American Heart Association hasn't produced the teaching materials for the new method. This is not the first time they announced something new before making the materials available to the instructors. My training center has yet to call us (all the other instructors and I) back to get inserviced on the new method of CPR yet.

I would presume that the new method is based off of how much oxygen the body actually uses in each breath. A little while ago 2 rescuer CPR were cycles of 5 compressions to 1 breath. They then changed this to cycles of 15 compressions and then 2 breaths because it studies showed that 15 compressions produced a more effective blood preasure. Therefore I would assume that the newer method is trying to balance the max number of compressions you can do on a given number of breaths before the blood oxygenation level drops to an unacceptable level or something like that. Because I have yet to be inserviced on the new method I couldn't tell you about the research behind the new CPR.

On another note even though it was just a few hours ago I allready want to teach another class. It just feels good.

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"They" change the standards every few years. I've learned atleast 3 different counts since the first time I learned CPR. Honestly when you think about it if the standard is set and never changes, then they won't have any more federal funding to continue research. I really don't believe the changes are all that important to anything except the pocketbooks of "they."

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

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The training videos are 70 a pop for dvd

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