Apr 6, 2017
Courtesy of U.S. News & World Report - Heart disease kills more people than all types of cancer combined. Every year, nearly 450,000 Americans die suddenly from cardiac arrest.
Apr 4, 2017
Courtesy of KSBY.com - "If you continue to do these things, you could die." Those the words a mother never wants to hear.
Apr 4, 2017
Courtesy of The Paris Post-Intelligencer - Sudden cardiac arrest kills someone every 1.7 minutes, resulting in 350,000 deaths a year.
Apr 4, 2017
Strenuous exercise raises short-term risk of heart attack and cardiac arrest. Making sure your fitness club has a defibrillator can mean the difference between life and death.
Apr 4, 2017
Courtesy of Inquirer.Net - Over the weekend, I was invited to speak at the Cardio-Connect Asia Pacific Meeting in Hong Kong on why young people, including athletes, die suddenly, without showing any previous symptom related to a heart problem.
Apr 4, 2017
Courtesy of We Are Green Bay - Dave Schroeder never dreamed his morning surfing would end with him in the hospital and on the six o'clock news. But thanks to CPR skills his friend didn't even have, Schroeder can tell his story.
Apr 3, 2017
Courtesy of ABC Action News - Little Leaguers playing in any of the parks in New York City this spring will be given a free automated external defibrillator, thanks to a new law.
Apr 3, 2017
Courtesy of Philly Voice - Three Delaware high school students are expected to stand trial starting Monday on charges connected to the death of fellow classmate Amy Francis-Joyner.
Apr 2, 2017
Courtesy of The Sun - Rehana Browne, 26, was a fit and healthy young women when she went for a routine workout and, half an hour in, her heart stopped and she went into cardiac arrest
Mar 31, 2017
Courtesy of the Leadership newspaper - Sudden death is often described as an unanticipated death which has different causes. It comes as a shock, like a bolt from the blue.
Mar 30, 2017
Courtesy of Vancouver Sun - Recent media reports of otherwise healthy young people dying suddenly and inexplicably prompt painful questions about how or whether these deaths could have been prevented.
Mar 29, 2017
Courtesy of EurekAlert! - The Spectrum Health Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Program has been designated a national Center of Excellence by the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association (HCMA).
Mar 29, 2017
Annie Young, a school nurse at Lake Highlands Junior High in Dallas, TX. was in the middle of paperwork when two runners from a last period gym class came barreling into her clinic yelling about a collapsed student.
Mar 29, 2017
Courtesy of OnMedica - Direct admission to a specialist heart centre after a cardiac arrest is linked to higher chances of survival than being taken to the nearest general hospital, reveals research* published today in the European Heart Journal.
Mar 28, 2017
Courtesy of Cardiovascular Business - Although research has shown automated external defibrillators (AEDs) can increase survival after cardiac arrest, only 17 of 50 U.S. states required at least some of their schools install AEDs as of February 2016, according to a database analysis.
Mar 28, 2017
Steven Brazier, 19, died from a cardiac arrest in February 2014 after his mental health deteriorated under the care of the Kent & Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Mar 28, 2017
The New Zealand Resuscitation Council made the statement to clarify misconceptions that compression-only CPR, also known as 'hands-only CPR', is an acceptable alternative when being trained in basic life support and First Aid.
Mar 24, 2017
Courtesy of CBC News - People with higher levels of thyroid hormone in their bloodstream may be at greater risk of sudden cardiac death, even if those levels aren’t abnormally high, a new study suggests.
Mar 24, 2017
Courtesy of Sur in English - With just a pair of hands and two fingers you can save a life: a fact that emphasises the necessity of taking swift action when someone is suffering from sudden cardiac arrest.
Mar 23, 2017
After 20 years of research scientists at the University of Cape Town have identified the mutations in a gene called CDH2, or cadherin 2, that’s responsible for an inherited form of heart muscle disease that affects the right side of the heart in a condition known as cardiomyopathy.
