Arizona Fire and Burn Educators Association

  Archived CSN Webinar  ‌  ‌ Webinar Archive Protecting Children from Heatstroke in Vehicles  It can happen to anyone, even the most loving parents and caregivers, but it is entirely preventable. Every 10 days a child dies from Pediatric Vehicular Heatstroke (PVH) while unattended in a car. The total number of PVH deaths in the US, from 1998 through 2020 is 882; an average of 38 fatalities a year. i   It only takes a few minutes for a car to heat up and become deadly to a child inside. While the majority of these deaths happen when a child is unintentionally left inside of a vehicle, about 25% occur when a child gains access to a car and becomes trapped inside. ii  In this webinar, Jan Null, Adjunct Professor of Meteorology at San Jose State University and founder of NoHeatstroke.org, discussed the scope of the problem and related trends. He also explained the dynamics of vehicle heating and the impact they have upon a child’s heath. Amy Artuso of the Natio...

STOP THE BLEED Day: Bleeding Control Techniques By Emergency Care Blog Team, May 18, 2021 National STOP THE BLEED Day (May 20, 2021) is a one-day call to action to save lives by training people to stop traumatic bleeding. Read more »

  Facebook is excited to announce that our free COVID Announcement feature is now available to State and Local Health Department Facebook pages, as well as municipal government pages. When you mark posts as COVID Announcements, we greatly amplify their reach so that people living in your community are much more likely to see them. We send notifications to people living in the affected area (not just people following your page), and we also show that information on the COVID-19 Information Center. What is a COVID Announcement and why should I use it? COVID Announcement is a new option within the  Local Alerts tool  – a free tool that allows Pages to broadcast essential updates to people in their community by marking a Page post as a Local Alert. While other Local Alerts send notifications to just your Page followers, COVID Announcements have greatly amplified reach because notifications are also sent to other people who live in the affected area but don’t follow your Page....

   100 Club – Recorded presentations (multiple topics).  Videos in "Wellness Webinars" on Vimeo

 Article from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  People who have cardiac arrests may benefit from CPR, yet many people who witness cardiac arrest do not perform CPR. Learn about CPR so you can be prepared. Cardiac arrest is not the same as a heart attack. Someone whose heart has stopped beating is in cardiac arrest and needs CPR. What is CPR, and when should I use it? Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is an emergency procedure that can help save a person’s life if their breathing or heart stops. When a person’s heart stops beating, they are in  cardiac arrest.  During cardiac arrest, the heart cannot pump blood to the rest of the body, including the brain and lungs. Death can happen in minutes without treatment. 1  CPR uses chest compressions to mimic how the heart pumps. These compressions help keep blood flowing throughout the body. Cardiac arrest is not the same as a heart attack. A heart attack happens when blood flow to the heart is blocked. ...

  Happy Mother's Day from the Arizona Fire & Burn Educators Association.  Show your mom some love today and check her smoke alarms. 

Vision 20/20 will assist in managing registrations for these free events. The dates we are currently scheduling for are June 1 to August 15. Vision 20/20 is now in the process of scheduling One Day CRR Workshops across the nation for this summer. There is no cost for attending one of these events.  If you are interested in hosting one of these events for departments in your area I ask that you use the following link to answer some short questions regarding the availability and requirements. We understand that some of you may be still under Covid restrictions which would prevent larger gatherings so we would like to gather all the necessary information prior to making decisions on locations for these events.   https://forms.gle/ hczH6x3ZV7ttQ7Vq6