You certainly don’t need to look any further!  We are the leader in Instructor based learning, you get a person to talk with, questions get answered and all in a comfortable, professional atmosphere.  Are you tired of sitting through a video and an instructor that has NEVER done CPR?  We make it short, sweet and to the point, your visit with us will be professional and bring a sigh of relief after all those trainings that brought you a headache AND you WILL learn something new, we can guarantee it!

American CPR & Safety students are raving about our style, humor and the way we can put the information out there to all our students to make that vital information stick!

www.MinnesotaCPRtraining.com is the leader in training that is user friendly with our CPR, AED, first aid and OSHA classes being taught by instructor trainers with years of experience.  We offer low cost First Responder training that fits our busy student’s budgets, the training is certified through the EMSRB of the state of Minnesota.  We also offercompetitively priced OSHA certification training.  What more can you ask for? Do you need Blood Borne Pathogens training?  We have that also! It’s easy to contact us, just e-mail us at classes@americancprandsafety.com or call 763-477-5766!

In our last public training I received a comment from a Healthcare Provider CPR student: “I’ve taken these healthcare provider CPR classes for years, this is the first class that has given me insight to what we can do to help the alert cardiac victim, and, not just book information either! That’s what I pay for! This is a typical comment we receive time after time.  Comments such as this one gives us affirmation that we are giving all our students what they need AND what they want out of their training.

Our Wilderness First Aid Training helps scouts, adventurers and travelers with indepth training.  Are you looking for your group or troop to be trained before summer camp?  Call us,  you won’t be disappointed!

Our instructors and staff are constantly utilizing the web for OSHA updates and other Healthcare articles to find the newest and most update information to help our students stay abreast of new technology and medical news.

Our Pediatric CPR and First aid training is taught by our American Heart Association and National Safety Council trainers that have first hand knowledge of children and what to expect from those little ones, because they are experienced parents themselves!  Our  Day Care facilities and Montessori schools get the learning experience of a life time!  We are a complete training facility.  We don’t just brush the top.  Take our Pediatric CPR course and find out just what we mean. E-mail us at classes@americancprandsafety.com or call Shannon at 763-477-5766.

Are you looking for Adult CPR with AED training?  We’ve got it. It’s called Heartsaver/AED.  With this training, you can take just Adult, adult/child or include Infant training as well.  It’s fast, geared to your particular employment needs and you get your certification card at the time of training!

Some companies mail your card, so you have to wait.  Others do not include any materials in their cost !  You take the class…..we give you your training materials and card at class time!  Now that’s a complete package training.

Would you like to take our Family & Freinds CPR?  Just give us a call, we can set up an appointment in your home or our site, get at least 5 of your family members and freinds together and have a blast with our training, it’s fun, comfortable and very informative.  It’s simple to learn, all it takes is 2 1/2 hours of your time to learn how to help our 911 system save a family member or freinds’ life!

Click on our class schedule button for our individual training schedule.

For corporate training please  E-mail Shannon or call!  We fit your schedule, not the other way around.

Come on in, get comfortable and have a great experience.

See you in class,

Shannon Madden

Listen to our message on BOB 106.1FM www.dothebob.com in the first week of November. Times are Monday from 10 AM-3 PM, Wed. 3 PM -7 PM and again on Fri. 10 AM-3 PM. If you like this message, please let us know by posting a comment to our post.

This message is in memory of Jennifer O’Connor who made an error of not buckling up and died because of this mistake.  

 I’ve been to many an accident as a firefighter responder and have seen what a seat belt can do for a person.  I have also seen the results of NOT wearing one.  I just never thought it would directly impact my family and myself.  You see, Jennifer was the mom of my 7 and 8 yr. old granddaughters. 

The message is presented to you by our safety team and BOB 106.1 FM.  Because American CPR & Safety, Inc. is committed to educating the public in safety issues, we’ve partnered with several industries to get messages of safety out there to the public. 

I’d like to know your feelings on this, what would you like to see brought to the public regarding safety issues?  Did you experience something that educated you in safety?  Do you have some helpful hints for our readers, please post your comment.  I will be more than happy to put it up on site to share!

Routes of Exposure

“Routes of exposure” means the different ways employees might be exposed to bloodborne pathogens in the workplace. Any of the following could be a route of exposure on the job:

• Contact with a co-worker who suffers a bleeding injury, such as a cut, abrasion, or amputation
• Contact with blood while administering first aid, such as when applying pressure to a wound or wrapping an injury
• Touching a contaminated surface, such as a table, tool, or control panel, that has been contacted with infected blood
• Being assigned to clean up blood or bodily fluids after an injury
• Contact with contaminated products or equipment in restrooms
• Using a tool covered in dried blood

Exposure Prevention

The best way for employees to avoid contact with BBPs is to:

• Treat all blood and bodily fluids as if they are infectious for HIV, hepatitis, or other bloodborne pathogens (“universal precautions”).
• Use barrier protection—gloves, masks, aprons, protective eyewear—to avoid contact with bodily fluids. Avoiding direct contact means there is no exposure.
• Immediately clean up and decontaminate surfaces and equipment that have been in contact with blood or bodily fluids.
• Decontaminate skin by washing hands after handling any type of bodily fluid, even if you have worn gloves.
• Immediately and properly dispose of contaminated items and materials used to disinfect contaminated items.

Questions to ask yourself: 

Do you know how long HBV lives on a surface?  What do I do when I remove my gloves?  Where do I put the bloody/fluid contained items?  Who do I call when I might have been exposed?  

Don’t know the answers??  Take our course!  Ask for Blood Borne Pathogens training for your employees or yourself NOW!!

American CPR & Safety, Inc., advocates taking your CPR and First Aid training from a live instructor in a classroom environment. 

Due to the lack of hands on training from web site training, most students miss the one to one question time and live contact. We also do one/one training for those of you who dislike the classroom ‘feel’, or have hectic schedules that warrant this type of training. 

Our classroom student size is small, so we may directly work with our students.  Our instructors are educated to work with students in any capacity.  If it’s English as a second language, a personal special consideration for physical abilities, or just plan anxiety.  We can help our students achieve their maximum potential. 

CPR and First Aid are ‘hands on’ courses.  This training is nothing like taking an English course on line. 

Our students get proper training in the art of ventilation, compressions, techniques of bandaging, etc.  Can you answer the question – Just how do you wrap an ankle with an ACE bandage?? after taking an on line course? An on line course gives the student the basic book information, not reality.  Come to our sites and join our classes!  Listen to our instructors explain just what it’s like to do compressions on a real person, wrap a broken arm on a young boy or talk to a person in pain. 

Our students leave our classroom with a sense of accomplishment and educational fulfillment!  Isn’t this what you’re looking for?? We don’t stop there!  We encourage our students to stay in touch and call us whenever they have a question, feel the need to vent after an incident, or want to brag about the great experience they had helping someone in need!

Come experience great training at a great price for you, your company’s employees, or your scout troop! 

Our CPR classes for March and April are on the site now.  Register now by clicking the class schedule button on top and then pick you class, click the red button to schedule your appointment and come on in!! 

Spring is upon us…(Yippee).  We’ll all be making our summer plans and getting ready for our boating, hiking and camping trips.  Are you prepared for an emergency?  If not, take our life safety class of Basic First Aid and CPR.  You’ll be glad you did!

DID YOU KNOW?

• A woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s.
• Your heart is about the size of your fist and the average adult heart weighs about 10 ounces (280 grams).
• Your heart beats 100,000 times and pumps about 1900 gallons (7200 liters) of blood every day.
• Three years after a person quits smoking, their chance of having a heart attack is the same as someone who has never smoked.
• The right lung is larger than the left because of the placement of the heart.
• The human heart can create enough pressure to squirt blood up to 30 feet.

Want more?????  Join a life safety class now! CLICK ON CLASS SCHEDULE BUTTON , CHECK OUT OUR CLASSES , and come join us!!!

Until next month….Stay safe and happy,

Shannon Madden