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Sepsis Awareness Month — Learn About Sepsis and You May Save a Life!
Decipher Your Health exists because Karin and I had the good fortune of meeting through our work with Sepsis Alliance – I wrote content for the site, among other things, and Karin is…
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Choosing a Patient Advocate; Who Should It Be?
We here at Decipher Your Health frequently discuss having someone with you as a patient advocate when seeking medical care. But we haven’t addressed who that patient advocate should be and in…
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Learn How to Save a Life with CPR and AEDs!
You’re out shopping and you hear a cry for help. Someone has collapsed. It looks like a cardiac arrest. Does anyone know CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation)? Is there an automated external defibrillator (AED)…
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Welcome to the Wild West of Wearables!
You may have heard about the Apple watch debacle on the ski slopes this winter that was written about in the New York Times. If not, here’s what happened. The new “fall assist” software update…
