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"You never know what situation you may find yourself in, and VHA health care professionals know this all too well," reads a post on the Simulation Learning, Evaluation, Assessment, and Research Network's (SimLEARN) Facebook page.
The post is about a nurse named Megan who happened to be at a race when her boyfriend went into cardiac arrest.
As she went to greet him at the finish line, she noticed a sheriff attending to a different runner who wasn't feeling well.
A short time later, the runner went into cardiac arrest and became unresponsive.
Megan immediately went over to him, began cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and applied an automated external defibrillator (AED), and continued to administer CPR.
The runner was shocked twice by the AED, and Megan continued to administer CPR.
After what seemed like an eternity, the runner began to respond, and when EMS arrived, he was sitting up and talking.
Megan references a training implemented by SimLEARN's Resuscitation Education and Innovation portfolio (REdI) that proved instrumental in her life-saving actions.
RQI is the gold standard of training, according to the AHA, and, over the past year, 78% of all eligible VA staff adopted the training with 58 VA medical facilities obtaining a
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