Dec 12, 2017
Courtesy of The Topeka Capital Journal - When Emma Baker went into cardiac arrest during a school spelling bee nearly five years ago, her family had no idea she had heart disease.
Dec 12, 2017
Courtesy of Siouxland's News Channel - Athletic screenings help prevent the occurrence of sudden death or cardiovascular disease progression in young athletes.
Dec 9, 2017
Courtesy of The Daily Times - For any student athlete taking part in or looking to play sports, having a healthy heart ensures that passion can be long lasting.
Dec 9, 2017
Courtesy of MSN - Wake County paramedics Greg Rodevick and Rich Eldridge ran across the PNC Arena court last Saturday, heading toward N.C. State guard Markell Johnson and his apparent knee injury.
Dec 8, 2017
Courtesy of The St. Augustine Record - A late-fall evening sky, inky blue-purple in color, was suddenly pierced by orbs of lavender, violet and grape. Dozens of balloons were released at the same time, untethered from the hands that held them, up into the heavens above.
Dec 7, 2017
Courtesy of SiLive - When a person is in cardiac arrest, anything is better than nothing.
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
