Students in Alice Henshaw’s Wilderness Medical Associates CPR training courses can practice on a Womanikin, designed to help trainees understand that compressions should be performed the same way on women’s bodies as men’s. Alice Henshaw When students in wilderness EMT Alice Henshaw’s training courses grab practice dummies for CPR drills, they have their choice of…

A 7-year-old British girl is credited with saving her mother’s life with CPR after learning how to perform the emergency procedure by watching videos on YouTube. Early one November morning, Jessica Kinder was home feeling sick and watching the holiday movie “The Grinch” when her mother, Becky Green, 32, suddenly collapsed and began having a seizure. FLU DEATHS…

First responders in Nassau County who save lives every day just got some help. And it’s already helping them save more lives. Nassau ambulances have new technology on board that, at a crucial moment, can help turn a tragedy into a life saved. It’s a change that is making Nassau safer and better able to…