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.
Nov 11, 2017
Courtesy of ABC Action News - Losing a child to an undiagnosed heart condition is, in so many words, heartbreaking. But doctors may be close to preventing one type of heart disease before it even starts.
Nov 9, 2017
Courtesy of The Nation - Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart beat stops suddenly for some time.
Nov 9, 2017
Courtesy of Ozarks First - Quick action saves the life of a northern Missouri high school student.
Nov 7, 2017
Courtesy of Wimbledon Health Partners - In an article published in The Signal, a publication of The College of New Jersey, Maximillian C. Burgos tells the story of football player Anthony Cortazzo, who collapsed during a routine track practice in high school, nearly dying from sudden cardiac arrest.
Nov 7, 2017
Courtesy of Medical Express - More people will survive cardiac arrest if emergency medical dispatchers give chest compression-only CPR instructions over the phone and if infants and children receive chest compressions with rescue breaths.
Nov 2, 2017
Courtesy of Wimbledon Health Partners - CPR coupled with AED use has proven to be a life-saving combination when it comes to students suffering sudden cardiac arrest.
Nov 1, 2017
Courtesy of Florida Today - As Shawn Sima sat next to his daughter’s hospital bed, he started to feverishly research. How could this happen? Here she was a happy, healthy 16-year-old cheerleader, and just like that — Lexi Sima fell off a treadmill at a Viera gym and into cardiac arrest.
Oct 30, 2017
Courtesy of Beloit Daily News - It’s hard to predict sudden cardiac arrest.
Oct 26, 2017
Courtesy of The West Australian - According to the proverb, it takes a village to raise a child — but a Perth family have discovered it also takes a village to save a child.
