In this issue:

• Information about "Giants" nominations, on Page 1.
• The 2nd Annual CPR & AED Awareness Week is coming in June. See some early details on Page 2.
• Resuscitation researchers are also giving much attention to the last link in the Chain—early advanced care. A better understanding of the processes that occur when a patient is revived is leading to new protocols for protecting neurological long-term function. See the story and link to the free complete study on Page 4.
• Why do those guidelines keep changing? Leon Chameides offers some history of how guidelines came to be in the first place and how they are developed worldwide today.
• CPR Anytime® continues to pop up everywhere; in this issue teens take a lunch break to learn in New Jersey, and a young couple, urged on by BLS instructor grandparents, spend Christmas in pajamas with a new baby and an Infant CPR Anytime kit.

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