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  Hello CRR Friends and Colleagues,   We’re excited to share the announcement of the newly released American Burn Association (ABA) position statement on home medical oxygen related burn injury/fire prevention!  This is a first step in several national strategic initiatives targeting this high-risk safety issue.  We’ve seen this injury etiology repeatedly in our hospital inpatient/outpatient/Emergency Department and community populations.   Please take a few minutes to read the  statement posted on the ABA website  (also attached as a .pdf).  The position statement was written by a national task force of multidisciplinary professionals, that I had the pleasure of co-leading with Dr. Rebecca Coffey (Parkland Health) and Dr. Amalia Cochran (University of Florida Health).  If any of you or your colleagues registered for the 2022 American Burn Association Annual Meeting, you can virtually view the workshop that we held discussing a burn case resulting from home medical oxygen and smoking i

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  ASHI and MEDIC First Aid Blog Posted  April 5, 2022  CPR, AED and First Aid training is designed to prepare you to respond to a variety of emergency situations. But what is it really like to respond and perform CPR? And how do lay responders process and carry the weight of their heroic actions? A recent  Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation newsletter  highlights the importance of understanding the psychological impact lay responders often experience while witnessing and responding to a cardiac emergency. “ There is extensive research about the effectiveness of bystander CPR, as well as some work on the amount and type of training that seems to be most effective. However, only a few studies have been conducted to understand the reasons why people do or do not take action to perform CPR if they witness a cardiac arrest, and what it is really like, from the rescuer’s perspective, to respond in a cardiac arrest emergency. ” Understanding the rescuer’s perspective is a crucial step toward im