For those of you who may know me and my love live music, you can only imagine how elated I was when I received an invitation to the Turkish Ambassador’s house to enjoy an evening of live Jazz music by The Helen Sung Quartet and some delicious Turkish food! 

All three escalators at the Dupont Circle South exit were not working again this morning, leaving thousands of commuters a major walk up the steep stairs to Connecticut Avenue.

Walking up the escalator myself, I passed several people completely out of breath.  Many people were taking breaks, while some looked as though they were in serious pain.

This problem needs to get fixed before someone suffers something serious.

CPR or cardiopulmonary resuscitation used to be very simple to understand. Cardio stands for heart, pulmonary stands for lungs and resuscitation means to revive from death. When a patient died, someone would push on the person’s chest to try to restart the heart while giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to help the person breathe. Over time, CPR has become more complex as healthcare professionals have discovered advanced ways to try to bring the person back to life. The patient may now be given medications, his heart may be electrically shocked with paddles placed on the chest, and he may be placed on a ventilator to help him breathe. What seemed like an easy question, “Does the person want CPR?” has turned into a more complicated decision.  

What do you need to know to make a good decision?

1.  Make sure you really understand what really happens during CPR.