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I have recertified in Basic Life Support many times. It is always the same. Some outside office, somewhere across town.
September 9, 2026
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I have recertified in Basic Life Support many times. It is always the same. Some outside office, somewhere across town.
A healthcare professional completes a Basic Life Support course in an afternoon. They pass the assessment. They receive the card.
During his return from a business trip in Manila, VRKure’s software lead, Sourav Pandey, was faced with a harrowing situation at the airport
You walk in. Plastic manikin on a makeshift desk. Disinfectant in the air. The table is too high, or too low.
At 6:00 a.m., Sourav Pandey, software lead at VRKure, received a call very few are prepared for: his neighbor’s mother
Hospitals are high-stress places. Patients are critically ill. The work has to be done in a coordinated, skilled way…
My phone would ring at 2 in the morning. Sometimes it was a nurse. Sometimes a fellow. Occasionally a colleague at another institution.
Consider the impact if three fully loaded Boeing 737s crashed in a single morning, resulting in total loss of life.
I spent twenty-six years as a cardiac surgeon. I have been in operating rooms and ICUs more times than I