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Life on the line: Learn to use a defibrillator
By Dan Cooke - Hawaii News Now
If someone next to you, someone you know and love, dropped to floor with a cardiac arrest, would you know what to do? No matter where you are in Hawaii, chances are improving that a crucial lifesaving device is close by.
Automated external defibrillators or AEDs have been around for a decade. But only recently, thanks to a Good Samaritan law, the number of AEDs in Hawaii has gone from a handful, to thousands.
"It was a big change in 2007," said Pamela Foster of the AED Institute.
American Heart Association on the importance of CPR
(HawaiiNewsNow) - Knowing basic CPR techniques can be the difference between life and death. Pam Foster from the American Heart Association joins us this morning.
Volunteer instructors from the American Heart Association will provide one-hour CPR awareness classes at the Great Aloha Run Expo at the Blaisdell Exhibition Hall on the following days:
February 13 at 3:15 p.m.
February 14 at 10:15 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Call 538-7021 to reserve a space in class. Please note these classes are informational only. Participants will not receive a certification card.
The American Heart Association-Maui Division will offer FREE Heartsaver CPR Certification classes on Valentine's Day, Sunday, February 14, 2010 at the War Memorial Gymnasium in Wailuku. Two-hour training classes will be offered at 8:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Cards will be offered to those completing the classes.
MOANALUA (HawaiiNewsNow) - Kristin Maekawa Claudi was a healthy 28 year old preschool teacher. Fiery and strong according to her mother Sharon Maekawa. So much so she says her daughter picked up right after college and moved to Italy. When she returned home to Hawaii she began working at Moanalua elementary to follow her passion of teaching.
Maekawa's new co-workers had admired her sense of dutifulness.
"She had a lot of integrity, she was was just really wonderful to work with. I really miss her." her former assistant Lylene Sakamoto said.
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SCAA Hawaii Educates Public
Pam Foster and the SCAA Hawaii Chapter conducted AED/CPR training at King Liholiho on Tuesday, November 3, 2009. The attendees were 36 Liholio teachers and staff members who stayed after school to learn these life saving skills. Pam Foster and her colleagues were also there to present Liholiho Elementary with a $2,000 AED gift from Rachel Moyer, a Pennsylvania mother whose 15-year-old son, Greg, died in 2000 after a basketball game. Rachel Moyer has since donated more than $1 million worth of defibrillators to schools across the nation. The Liholiho gift - Hawaii's second from Moyer - was being made in the memory of Kristin Akemi Maekawa Claudi, who did her student teaching at Liholiho school, and whose mom, Sharon Maekawa, taught at the school for 18 years before retiring. Sharon Maekawa daughter Kristin died on May 27, without warning from a sudden cardiac arrest.
The Honolulu Advertiser covered the event. Read the full story here>>
The YMCA Healthy Kids Day event at Bishop Museum on Saturday, April 18th was a huge success, with over 200 children in attendance!
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Chapter Leader
Pamela Foster, RN
44-547 Kaneohe Bay Dr
Kaneohe, HI 96477
Phone: (808) 388-5911
PFosterRN@sbcglobal.net