Leah Schmidt looks like the proverbial picture of health. She is a cancer survivor who, in 2021 was training for Pelotonia-- the grassroots fundraiser to end cancer. A few months after the ride, in ...
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation are crucial life-saving techniques that can greatly influence survival rates during emergencies involving sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). The ...
ER nurse Taylor Krupp, from Michigan Medicine, saved his uncle Keith Vrable's life using CPR and an AED during a pickleball tournament in New Lothrop. Vrable collapsed with no pulse, and Krupp's quick ...
Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is a medical emergency where the heart suddenly stops beating normally. It can happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere. Immediate defibrillation and high-quality CPR can ...
Recently, I wrote about the dark side of CPR. Despite a common misperception that CPR can rescue almost anyone from the brink of death, most people that receive it don't survive. Of those that do, ...
NEW LOTHROP, Mich. – In his seven years as a nurse in the adult emergency department at Michigan Medicine, Taylor Krupp has saved countless lives. But it’s a rescue that happened far from the hospital ...