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LYFETYMER Audible Compression Metronome now available at the AED Superstore

     The AED Superstore has the new LYFETYMER ACM (Audio Compression Metronome) in stock now!

     This small battery-operated electronic device helps rescuers follow the American Heart Association Guidelines for adult CPR while performing CPR on a patient. What's unique about this CPR aid is that the user can select lay-rescuer or professional rescuer protocols. Properly performed CPR is a vital link in the patient's chain of survival and this wonderful tool will help rescuers get it right.

     Available now at the AED Superstore for $24.95.

New CPR promises better results by compressing abdomen, not chest

     A biomedical engineer at Purdue University has developed an alternative CPR compression technique that is nothing like we've seen before. It's a new method of performing chest compressions on a patient that appears effective and is the second alternative we've seen that downplays the step of rescue breathing.

     Although this news item was released back in September of this year, it appears in print in this month's issue of JEMS.