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October is Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month. Two things worth doing this month cost nothing: attend one of the 84-plus free Ready to Respond training events the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation has scheduled nationwide, and put your own AEDs on the public map. Here is what each involves and what Lexington, Kentucky learned doing the second one.

Awareness months fail when they ask people to feel something instead of do something. Here is September as four afternoons of work you can actually finish.

Choking gives a responder minutes to act. Learn the first aid steps for a choking adult, child, or infant — back blows, abdominal thrusts, and where anti-choking rescue devices fit in your workplace readiness program.