How to Survive 911 Medical Emergencies: Step-by-Step Before, During, After!

by Nancy May, Robert Antonion

Overview

Calling 911 in an emergency may be the most important thing you ever do. However, it is only one tool to get you and yours through a medical emergency. This guide lays out a smarter process to improve the odds that you and your charge(s) have successful outcomes (i.e., survive) when going through a medical emergency. That means getting yourself, your family, your charges, your home, and your environment ready for a medical emergency. You need to make your home and environment "responder ready." You need to learn how to give critical aid that keeps your charge stable until professional help arrives. You need to know how to get responders to your charge quickly and be as helpful to them as you can while they are there. It's also important to know how to get prompt care at - and "work" - a hospital emergency department. Finally, you need to plan for and get through the recovery process with your charge and take care of yourself, too. That includes learning from the experience so you can improve what you know and better handle things the next time. It also includes assessing the emergency's impact on you, the caregiver, so that you can successfully recover yourself.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781734841602
Publisher:	CareManity, LLC
Publication date:	06/03/2020
Pages:	118
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Nancy May has spent her career working with CEOs, Boards of Directors, and senior leaders in the public and private sectors. These experiences gave her the strength and foundation to step in and provide her parents with guidance and support, both as their POA and Trustee, as they aged. She credits her father, an entrepreneur and innovator in eyewear design, and her mom, for encouraging and preparing her to acquire the many skills needed to start and lead several successful businesses. She has transitioned these competencies and life lessons to into her new business, CareManity, LLC, which focuses on providing family caregivers structured ways to obtain practical knowledge and access much-needed support.


Robert Antonion has been a first responder, management auditor, corporate governance researcher and analyst, and business writer. As a responder, he received numerous awards and recognitions for his work. As a supporting member of CareManity, LLC, he prefers to provide, in the background, detailed research, added dimension, and even emotional strength and a level of sanity to others in the company during hectic times He’s also camera shy.

Editorial Reviews

Many have not thought of these critical steps and necessities until a disaster is on their doorstep. This incredible book benefits both civilians and emergency service workers. There's more in this book than even many responders know!

Assistant Fire Chief - Alexander Nichols

As a psychotherapist/hypnotherapist who also works in a hospital O.R. with surgical patients before and during surgery, I welcome this book. No one should be without it!

Direct - Alexandra Chalif, MS, MP, Psychotherapy/Hypnotherapy

This book was so compelling that I had to put it down. Frequently. Starting early on, I stopped reading and went to work with what I had learned. First, to assemble essential information from several sources about myself - I live most of the time alone - in case I need emergency help. It took an hour, and made me feel safer. I wished the extensive practical advice for caregivers had been given to me on the day my wife was diagnosed with dementia.

Journalist, Public Speaker, Advocate for the Alzheimers Association - Gurney Williams, III