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♦ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2008
HEALTH
HHC implements advance in emergency cardiac care treatment
Special to the Journal
Houston Healthcare
recently began utilizing
the ResQPOD Circulatory
Enhancer - an advance
in emergency cardiac care
treatment - when perform
ing cardiopulmonary resus
citation on patients in car
diac arrest with the goal of
improving the rate of resus
citation and, ultimately, sur
vival, from a heart attack
or other causes of cardiac
arrest.
“The ResQPOD can dra
matically increase circula
tion and blood flow beyond
what standard CPR can
accomplish,” explains
Cindy Ireland, RT, Director
of Respiratory/Cardiology
Third Annual Jingle Jog set
Special to the Journal
As part of the Christmas at the
Crossroads festivities, Houston
Healthcare’s Institute for
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
is sponsoring the Third Annual
Jingle Jog 5K Fun Run/Walk and
One Mile Health Walk Dec. 6 in
Downtown Perry at The New Perry
Hotel.
Registration will begin at 4:30
p.m., followed by the race at 5 p.m.
Registration is $lO in advance;
and sls the day of the race. Both
the 5K and the One Mile Health
Walk follow the same routes as the
Dogwood SK.
Trophies will be awarded to the
overall male and female winners of
the SK, and to the top three boy and
girl finishers ages 10 and under and
ages 11 to 17. Long sleeve T-shirts
will be available to all participants
on race day as supplies last. The
event will be cancelled in the event
of extreme weather only.
“Houston Healthcare is delight
ed to be a part of the Christmas
at the Crossroads festivities, and
we encourage everyone in Perry
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Houston Healthcare urges you and your family
to take the following steps to help prevent the
flu this winter:
■ Avoid close contact with people who are sick.
■ Stay home when you are sick. You will help prevent
others from catching your illness.
■ Wash hands often , especially after you have been out
in public or touched things that other people have
touched.
■ Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when
coughing or sneezing. Avoid touching your eyes ,
nose or mouth.
■ Teach your children to cover their nose and mouth
with a tissue whenever they cough or sneeze.
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■ Make sure your children don’t share drinking
glasses or eating utensils.
Therapy at Perry Hospital.
“All crash carts throughout
Houston Healthcare’s facili
ties a§ well as our ambu
lances are now stocked with
the ResQPOD.”
A challenge with basic
CPR is the possibility of
delivering too much air,
too often, making the chest
compressions less effective.
Shaped like a cylinder, the
ResQPOD is a control valve
that, attaches between a
resuscitation bag and mask
or between an endotracheal
(breathing) tube and a mask
to help decrease the pres
sure in the patient’s chest
to improve blood flow to the
heart during the decompres
sion phase of CPR. With each
compression, more blood can
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to come to Downtown Perry and
have some fun,” says Tara Poole,
Marketing Coordinator for Houston
Healthcare. “This year, the Jingle
Jog will be run at twilight so partic
ipants can enjoy the holiday lights
as they run through the neigh
borhood. So we are encouraging
residents along the race route to
be pumped out to the brain
and other vital organs. The
ResQPOD is also equipped
with a flashing light signal
to help clinicians maintain
proper breathing rate and
speed of compressions.
“Cardiac arrest, even
when treated using standard
CPR, results in a profound
state of shock,” explains
Anne Cofield, RRT, BSHSA,
Director of Respiratory Care
and Neurology Services at
Houston Medical Center.
“Increasing blood flow to
the heart and brain until
the heart can be restarted is
critical to improving survival
rates with good neurological
function.”
The use of a device such
as the ResQPOD to increase
either decorate their houses with
lights or place luminaries by the
road for our runners. We want the
Jingle Jog to be a fun event that
families can participate in together
and have a good time”
Race applications are available
online at www.hhc.org or by calling
478-988-1827.
circulation and resuscitation
during CPR is supported by
the recent guidelines for
CPR and emergency car
diac care released by the
American Heart Association
in 2005.
The most widely report
ed recommendation by the
AHA was the guideline to
double the number of chest
compressions from 15 to 30
between ventilations.
Additionally, the AHA
gave a higher level of recom
mendation to the ResQPOD
technology than to any other
drug or device used by emer
gency personnel for increas
ing circulation during CPR
and improving resuscita
tion rates, including rou
tinely used drugs such as
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adrenaline. Introduced to
the U.S. market in 2005, the
ResQPOD is now widely used
as a circulatory enhancer by
hospital and EMS person
nel throughout the United
States.
According to recent litera
ture, less than one in 10
adults survives out-of-hos
pital cardiac arrest and only
one in five adults survives
in-hospital cardiac arrest.
With more than 460,000
Americans dying each year
from sudden cardiac arrest,
recent research has focused
on how to increase survival
rates through effective CPR.
While not a cure-all, the
ResQPOD offers new hope
to the millions of patents
who suffer a cardiac arrest
HHC supports annual Cans for Kids
Campaign now through Dec. 15
Special to the Journal
Houston Healthcare and its
Emergency Medical Services
helps support the annual Region
V EMS Cans for Kids Campaign
each year by collecting canned
goods for families in need in the
Houston County community.
This year’s Cans for Kids
Campaign will continue through
Dec. 15. Canned goods can be
placed in collection boxes at all
Houston Healthcare facilities
as well as all local fire depart
ments.
“This holiday season, we
hope that everyone in Houston
County can participate in this
state-wide effort to provide
meals to families in need,” says
Brenda Dale, EMT-R Houston
Healthcare EMS. “The canned
goods collected will be used to
meet the needs of families here
in Houston County.”
To help promote this initia
tive within the state, EMS prod
uct vendors and organizations
annually donate pediatric-spe
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worldwide each year.
“We are constantly look
ing for ways to improve our
emergency cardiac care. The
ResQPOD is a well-tested
device that has been shown
to dramatically increase
blood flow and resuscita
tion rates during standard
CPR in numerous clinical
studies,” adds Cofield. “As
recent AHA guidelines have
confirmed, increasing cir
culation throughout CPR is
critical to reviving patients
and bringing them back to
consciousness with intact
brain function.
“We’re very pleased to offer
this advance in emergency
cardiac care to Houston
County and surrounding
communities.”
cific products and goods to be
awarded to the Georgia EMS
services with the most successful
local Cans for Kids campaigns.
Houston Healthcare’s EMS took
top honors last year collecting
more than 4,800 canned goods.
They placed second in 2006
by collecting more than 3,500
and third in 2005 with over
4,000 cans collected for the
Bonaire, Centerville and Perry
Community Outreach Centers.
“Not only does the Cans for
Kids Campaign benefit our com
munity, but it also benefits our
Emergency Medical Services to
have these pediatric supplies
available in our ambulances,”
comments Dale. For their efforts
last year, Houston Healthcare’s
EMS received a fully stocked
Braslow®/Hinkle pediatric bag
and a TV/DVD combination unit
for the ambulance fleet.
For more information about
the Cans for Kids Campaign,
please contact Brenda Dale at
478-396-7539.
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