Dec 7, 2017
Courtesy of NJ.com - It was Sean's 13th birthday. Fifteen minutes into warmups, Sean collapsed on the field. He was a victim of an undetected heart condition known as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Dec 6, 2017
Courtesy of News 4 Jax - Paris Byrd, the St. Johns County girl who died after collapsing during basketball tryouts Tuesday at R.J. Murray Middle School had an enlarged heart, to medical examiner's preliminary report found.
Dec 5, 2017
Courtesy of Fox 12 Oregon - It was an emotional reunion at Liberty High School in Hillsboro Tuesday, as 14-year-old Quillen Franklin returned to the school for the first time since collapsing in cardiac arrest just over two weeks ago.
Dec 5, 2017
Courtesy of Cape Breton Post - The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League has unveiled extensive changes to player safety protocols four years after the sudden on-ice death of a 16-year-old prospect from Nova Scotia.
Dec 5, 2017
Courtesy of The Post and Courier - Minutes into a college basketball game, a player collapses.
Dec 4, 2017
Courtesy of Cardiovascular Business - Recent research provided sobering news on Americans’ ability to respond to cardiac arrest, which has about a 10 percent survival rate when occurring outside the hospital, according to the American Heart Association (AHA).
Dec 3, 2017
Courtesy of The Buffalo News - Hollywood has sensationalized the image of cardiac arrest patients being miraculously revived after crossing emergency department thresholds, but science tells a very different story.
Dec 1, 2017
Courtesy of Pune Mirror - Students of Caelum High School in Undri and their parents were in for a shock on Thursday morning, when a 10-year-old collapsed at the assembly and was declared dead an hour later.
Nov 30, 2017
Courtesy of The Charlotte Observer - Vance High senior Jaylen Riley, to this day, isn’t sure why his brother kept insisting he take a special physical offered to athletes by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools four years ago.
Nov 28, 2017
Courtesy of Mirror - A healthy schoolboy died after being hit in the chest by a football when out playing with his friends, an inquest heard.
Nov 28, 2017
Courtesy of Levittown Tribune - For those of you with any family history of heart disease, you may want to consider a cardiac screening.
Nov 28, 2017
Courtesy of Florida Today - "I died doing something I've been doing every day of my life," Lexi Sima told a couple hundred of her schoolmates at Viera High School Tuesday afternoon.
Nov 27, 2017
Courtesy of Somerset Live - A footballer who nearly died when he suffered a cardiac arrest during a competitive match says that he owes his life to the fact that there were people at the game who had been trained in CPR.
Nov 26, 2017
Courtesy of The Irish Sun - Hero school principal Tim O Tuachaigh was able to help save the nine-year-old pupil’s life because a GAA club next door had one of the devices
Nov 26, 2017
Courtesy of The Washington Post - On the September night his basketball career ended, Jaylen Brantley arrived at his mother’s home in Springfield, Mass., for a family dinner that seemed to have only one rule: There would be no discussion of the sport that had defined his life for 24 years.
Nov 25, 2017
Courtesy of The Daily Telegraph - Three weeks ago, the athletic nine-year-old was rehearsing for the end of year concert at his Sylvania Heights dance school. He landed a perfect no-handed cartwheel and then promptly collapsed. He had no pulse.
Nov 22, 2017
Courtesy of USA Today - A Hanna (North Anderson, S.C.) basketball player collapsed and apparently went into cardiac arrest at a game Monday evening but was revived by an athletic trainer who used a defibrillator, according to school officials.
Nov 22, 2017
Courtesy of Daily Hampshire Gazette - Somewhere on another campus, there could be a Division I athlete who has hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and doesn’t realize it.
Nov 16, 2017
Courtesy of West Haven Patch - A teen was saved by the quick actions of her coach and emergency crews after a sudden cardiac arrest during a soccer practice at Quinnipiac.
Nov 16, 2017
Courtesy of Gears of Biz - The preliminary findings of a study from Denmark suggest that children and young adults with diabetes may have seven times the risk of sudden cardiac death of young people without it.
