In the News
08/31/2010
Emergency Responders Warn AEDs Can't Save Lives Without Regular Attention
By wqow.com
They're meant to be live-saving devices, using an electric shock to restart someone's heart beat. But emergency responders warn: automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, won't do their jobs unless they're taken care of.
08/31/2010
NY Man Dies on Flight to Milwaukee
By Associated Press
A man from New York died of an apparent heart attack on an AirTran Airways flight from Las Vegas to Milwaukee early Saturday, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing at Denver International Airport.
08/27/2010
Gaining on Death, Cooling Therapy Catches on Slowly
By Frederik Joelving, Reuters
It was a cold, drizzly March morning this year when Ed Sproull's heart stopped beating.
08/23/2010
CMS to Expand LVAD Coverage
By Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today
Medicare may start to pay for permanent left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) for a broader group of heart failure patients, according to proposed changes in coverage.
08/23/2010
Jacksonville Boy Scouts Win National AED Contest
By Dan Scanlan, The Florida Times-Union
Arlington Boy Scouts Matthew Tyrrell and Eric Matthews have won a national video contest sponsored by Cardiac Science and the Boy Scouts of America.
08/19/2010
Witnesses raise questions about death at John Peter Smith Hospital pharmacy
Posted Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010
John Peter Smith Hospital officials will review the medical response to a man who collapsed and died Tuesday in the hospital pharmacy after witnesses complained that help was slow to arrive and that emergency equipment did not appear to work properly.
08/19/2010
IBM launches cardiovascular disease management system in China
HONG KONG | Thu Aug 19, 2010
International Business Machines Corp (IBM) on Thursday announced the launch of China's first all-in-one electronic cardiogram management system aimed at improving the detection and management of cardiovascular diseases.
08/19/2010
The life of this party is a CPR dummy named Annie
By ANNA PRATT, Special to the Star Tribune
"Save-a-life" parties are introducing more people to emergency-response techniques in a more relaxed environment.
08/19/2010
Despite study, Red Cross teaching rescue breathing CPR
By Brandee A. Thomas
Although a recent study has called into question the role of rescue breathing during cardiopulmonary resuscitation, American Red Cross officials say teaching practices will remain unchanged - for now.
08/16/2010
Tulsa's Cardiac Arrest Survival Rate Higher Than National Average
NewsOn6.com
A medical expert from France is getting a lesson in life-saving skills right here in Oklahoma.
08/16/2010
Amish learn to use defibrillators
By DIANA MARTIN, Staff Writer
The simple, plodding horse and buggy clomping down your street might be concealing some surprisingly advanced technology.
08/16/2010
Seahawks tackle school defibrillator fund-raising project
SEATTLE
The Seahawks aren't just looking for a winning season - they're looking to save lives.
08/16/2010
NYPD heart-start effort
By LORENA MONGELLI
The Big Apple is getting a big jolt.
08/16/2010
Mother hoping to spare others her heartbreak
BY JORGE BARRIENTOS, Californian staff writer
Olivia Corinne Hoff had a good heart, her family and friends share.
08/12/2010
Amish sign on to English life-saving technology
Reported by: Jenni Joyce
Some members of the Amish community are learning how to save lives with technology called an Automated External Defibrillator, or AED. It’s part of the nation’s first community response team (CRT), organized by the Manheim Township Ambulance Association. The pilot program is focusing its efforts in Paradise Township, Lancaster County.
08/12/2010
Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter Launches Nation’s First Community Response Team with Amish
Washington, DC
Underscoring that a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) emergency requires quick response and that automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are easy to use, the Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association (SCAA) has launched a unique community response team (CRT) with the Amish community of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, at the center of a broad program that will deploy AEDs in public locations, schools and even on horse and buggies and Amish farms to protect the community’s residents and visitors from the nation’s leading cause of death.
08/03/2010
11-year-old dies after collapsing at football practice
Sheriff's release ID
Andrew Jacob Lamphere of Garden Valley was in a “state of full cardiac arrest” when paramedics arrived at Golden Sierra High School Monday, according to Sgt. Jim Byers with the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office.
08/03/2010
City Paramedics Now Use Hypothermia Therapy in Ambulances to save Cardiac Arrest Patients
BY Frank Lombardi
City paramedics have begun a pioneering program to treat some cardiac arrest victims in ambulances with a body-chilling therapy that can increase survival rates without brain damage.
08/03/2010
The Bounceback Problem
By Zachary F. Meisel and Jesse M. Pines
Why patients can't stay out of hospitals.
08/03/2010
Scouts attempt to break CPR record
Written by George Harvey, Advertiser Correspondent
Today the Boy Scouts of America, with the Emergency Care and Safety Institute and Cardiac Sciences, were trying to accomplish a Guinness Book of World Record for the most people trained in CPR and AED device within a 24-hour period.
07/30/2010
'Pocket paramedic' guards against sudden cardiac arrest
IMPLANTED DEFIBRILLATOR MEANS LIFE TO ESCONDIDO WOMAN
For a reminder of life's fragility, there's nothing quite like having your heart stop. On May 3, Cindy Gelormini of Escondido experienced that ultimate insecurity.
07/27/2010
How to Save a Life: Using a Defibrillator
More Public Places Now Have Automatic External Defibrillators
This morning on "Good Morning America," ABC News' senior health and medical editor Dr. Richard Besser demonstrated the proper way to use an automatic external defibrillator (AED). AEDs are used to normalize a person's heart rhythm if they experience sudden cardiac arrest. According to Besser, 50,000 lives can be saved each year if an AED is used properly.
07/27/2010
The Do-It-Yourself House Call
Insurer-Endorsed Remote-Monitoring Technology Leads Heart Patients to Take Their Readings at Home
Technology that aims to keep congestive heart failure patients out of the hospital is gaining traction.
07/27/2010
Galesburg runner dies on race course
Times Staff
A 41-year-old wrestling coach from Galesburg, Ill., died of an apparent heart attack while participating in the Quad-City Times Bix 7, officials confirmed.
07/21/2010
New Heart Device Defibrillates Sans Wires
whiotv.com
A new implantable defibrillator is being called an "emergency room in your chest," delivering live-saving jolts to victims of sudden cardiac arrest, a killer that claims more than 1 million lives each year.
07/20/2010
A New Pumping Device Brings Hope for Cheney
By Lawrence K. Altman, MD, The New York Times
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is recuperating from surgery to implant the kind of mechanical pump now being given to a small but growing number of people with heart failure so severe that they would most likely die within a few months without it.
07/19/2010
Surgeon Who Repaired Racer’s Heart Joins Him as He Puts It to Test
By Thomas Kaplan, The New York Times
A year and a half removed from open-heart surgery, Greg O’Keeffe decided to test himself. He would try to run a triathlon, and he would dare his surgeon to do it, too.
07/19/2010
His ailing heart was in the right place
By Josephine Marcotty, Star Tribune
Early in the evening last St. Patrick's Day, Jim Meis stood up from his chair, looked his longtime partner, Trudy Lohre, in the eye and said, "I'm going to die." "Oh no, you're not," she said, leaping for the phone to dial 911. Then he said it two more times - "I'm going to die" - and collapsed at her feet.
07/16/2010
School Bus Driver CPR Law Named For Boy Who Died
'Darnell's Law' Passed House, On Way To Senate
A Marlborough family may soon have a lasting tribute for the son they lost when five-year-old Darnell Cobb choked to death on a school bus in January 2008.
07/16/2010
Pumps like Cheney's can extend lives of patients with congestive heart failure
By David Brown
If former vice president Richard B. Cheney's experience is similar to that of other patients who have heart pumps implanted, he has a better than 50-50 chance of surviving two years.
07/16/2010
George Steinbrenner died
Submitted by Denise Reynolds
New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who celebrated his 80th birthday on July 4th, died.
07/16/2010
An Artificial Heart Its Makers Say Could Be a Standard Replacement
By DAVID JOLLY
It is a long-held dream: an artificial heart to replace one that is damaged or diseased. Now, a French company says that it has the technology to make the implantation of it a standard surgical procedure.
07/16/2010
Denver PAD Program Takes Off
Jul 14, 2010
The Mile High Chapter of the American Red Cross launched Save a Life Denver on Monday, offering 1,000 AEDs at low or no cost to high-use businesses and promising to train 10,000 people annually in CPR and AED use.
07/16/2010
Denver schools, businesses to get life-saving automatic external defibrillators
By Yesenia Robles
Lindsay Hayden could have died when her heart stopped two years ago, but two shocks from an automatic external defibrillator at her high school in Westminster saved her life.
07/16/2010
Diabetes Drug Maker Hid Test Data, Files Indicate
By GARDINER HARRIS
Search Health 3,000+ Topics .Diabetes Drug Maker Hid Test Data, Files IndicateBy GARDINER HARRIS Published: July 12, 2010 Facebook comments (324) Sign In to E-Mail Print Reprints Share Close LinkedinDiggMixxMySpaceYahoo! BuzzPermalink. In the fall of 1999, the drug giant SmithKline Beecham secretly began a study to find out if its diabetes medicine, Avandia, was safer for the heart than a competing pill, Actos, made by Takeda.
07/16/2010
Daugherty raises defibrillator awareness in Seattle
Monday, July 12, 2010
WSU women’s basketball Head Coach June Daugherty is continuing in her efforts to raise awareness for Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) and Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs), speaking at an event being held in conjunction with the Seattle Sounders FC game Sunday, July 11.
07/06/2010
Negedu has waiver to play this season
By Diamond Leung
New Mexico forward Emmanuel Negedu, the Tennessee transfer who suffered sudden cardiac arrest last September, was granted a hardship waiver Friday that will allow him to play during the 2010-11 season, according to a source close to the situation.
07/02/2010
A Silent, Sudden Killer: When Kids Simply Drop Dead
By Mark Saxenmeyer, FOX Chicago News
School's out for the summer, and kids around Chicago are finally getting the chance to run and play outside. Yet some of them may be running with a silent killer.
07/02/2010
Ready for a heartbeat
by Amanda Winters
Six Clallam County Sheriff's patrol cars are equipped with a little extra life-saving equipment thanks to the Olympic Medical Center Foundation.
06/29/2010
Regimens: Lower Homocysteine and Heart Risk
By RONI CARYN RABIN
People with high blood levels of the amino acid homocysteine are at increased risk for heart disease and strokes. But it has never been clear whether reducing homocysteine will cut the risk, and whether the substance actually causes vascular disease.
06/29/2010
Study: Peak heart rate set too high for women over 35
By Julie Deardorff
Cardiologists and athletes often monitor heartbeats as a way to gauge health or fitness. But the most popular formula used to calculate maximum heart rate is inaccurate for women because it's based on data from men, according to a study published Monday in the journal Circulation.
06/29/2010
Consumer Reports Insights: Doubts surface about the safety of a diabetes drug
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
If you need a drug for Type 2 diabetes, Consumer Reports has long advised that a time-tested older medication called metformin is your safest and best first bet. Two studies published Monday, both involving a newer drug, Avandia, underscore why.
06/29/2010
Doctors Focus on Kids' Blood Pressure
Hypertension Increases Among Children, Putting Them at Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke in Adulthood
Amid the world-wide obesity epidemic and broader concerns about improving heart health, blood pressure has emerged as an important question—for kids of any weight. Rising rates of hypertension among overweight kids is driving the concern, but genetics and rare medical problems also may be triggers. While high-blood pressure is generally considered an adult medical problem, its increasing prevalence among children and teenagers is putting many young people on an early trajectory for heart attacks, strokes and other serious problems.
06/22/2010
New Tools for Helping Heart Patients
By GINA KOLATA
Search Health3,000+ Topics . .New Tools for Helping Heart Patients Ann Johansson for The New York Times Inside job A grouping of the new smart, implantable defibrillators that monitor heart information and transmit it to doctors and hospitals. By GINA KOLATA Published: June 21, 2010 Facebook Twitter Recommend Sign In to E-Mail Print Single Page Reprints Share Close LinkedinDiggMixxMySpaceYahoo! BuzzPermalink. On a recent Monday, Helen Elzo got a call from her doctor’s office. A device implanted in her heart was not functioning. She needed to go to the hospital and have it replaced.
06/22/2010
Philips sues Zoll over AED patents
MassDevice staff
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. accuses Zoll Medical Corp. of violating 15 patents with its AED Plus and AED Pro automated external defibrillators.
06/21/2010
Cardiac arrest top killer of firefighters nationwide and in Oklahoma last year
BY MATT DINGER
On-duty firefighter deaths were down in 2009 from the previous year, according to a national firefighter association report. Cardiac arrest killed more firefighters than any other cause.
06/18/2010
3 MN teens meet makers of device that's saving their lives
By Allen Costantini
Three Minnesota teenagers could have been subjects of a movie about "life interrupted." Instead, the young men are planning their college careers and beyond. They have all survived heart-stopping experiences.
06/18/2010
Skating to Save Lives
By Carole Meekins
A young athlete's cross-country quest could save lives of kids all over the country suffering from a hidden ailment, and he needs your help.
06/18/2010
CPR Requirements Coming for Coaches
By Kim Lucey
Sudden cardiac arrest claims thousands of lives every year, and has struck several local young athletes. Now, a bill that could help stop tragedy from striking again is on it's way to becoming law.
06/15/2010
A Radical View on Giving Statins
By ANNA WILDE MATHEWS
Some prominent doctors are pushing a heretical notion: Physicians have been prescribing statins to some of the wrong people.
06/14/2010
New phone apps aim to boost health
By WENDY LEE, Star Tribune
The iPhone is proven as a way to fill time, from making posts on social networks to playing silly games. Now, some entrepreneurs hope to add to its more practical uses, enabling it to monitor health and prevent disease.
06/14/2010
A Decade Later, Genetic Map Yields Few New Cures
By NICHOLAS WADE
Search Health3,000+ Topics . .A Decade Later, Genetic Map Yields Few New CuresBy NICHOLAS WADE Published: June 12, 2010 Facebook Twitter Recommend comments (136) Sign In to E-Mail Print Single Page Reprints Share Close LinkedinDiggMixxMySpaceYahoo! BuzzPermalink. Ten years after President Bill Clinton announced that the first draft of the human genome was complete, medicine has yet to see any large part of the promised benefits.
06/11/2010
Montgomery school district breaks ground in offering heart screenings to N.J. students
Stephen Stirling/For The Star-Ledger
Anthony Maselli doesn’t have to think long about his worst fear as the Montgomery school district’s athletic director: "I’m standing on a baseball field or a soccer field and a young, vibrant kid drops dead of a heart attack. It’s one of those things you see in your worst nightmares," he said.
06/10/2010
Schools slow to implement use of defibrillators
Nelson Garcia
When Karen Vandenheuvel takes care of kids at the Goddard School for Early Childhood Development, she employs tools such as computers, books, and globes. Now, she can use an automated external defibrillator.
06/10/2010
Heart attacks drop in California, study says
By Amanda Gardner, Health.com
Heart attacks dropped by 24 percent in a large cross section of Northern Californians over the past decade, most likely due to less smoking, better blood pressure control, and lower cholesterol, a new study reports.
06/09/2010
Atrial fibrillation is easy to find, but evidence on how best to treat it isn't
By Julie Appleby
Judy Currier remembers waking up the morning after doctors spent hours cauterizing tissue inside her heart. They were trying to correct a rapid, irregular heartbeat that had left her exhausted, frequently out of breath and at a higher risk of stroke.
06/09/2010
Man collapses during Obama's speech in Michigan
Associated Press
A man has been hospitalized after going into cardiac arrest during President Barack Obama's speech to high school graduates at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.
06/04/2010
Surviving Cardiac Arrest Depends on Your Location
Study found death rate up to three times higher in poorer neighborhoods
A person's chances of surviving a cardiac arrest depend largely on the neighborhood in which they collapse, a new study suggests.
06/04/2010
Midwest hospitals saving more heart attack patients
BY MONIFA THOMAS Health Reporter
Heart disease remains the No. 1 killer of men and women in the United States, but federal figures show that fewer people hospitalized for heart attacks are dying from them.
05/27/2010
People picky about giving CPR to strangers
WASHINGTON, May 26 (UPI)
A U.S. survey indicates one in four people have been in a situation in which CPR was needed -- and most Americans are reluctant to administer CPR to strangers.
05/27/2010
Heart Tests at Hospital Went Unread
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
Heart Tests at Hospital Went UnreadBy ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS Published: May 25, 2010 Sign in to Recommend Twitter Sign In to E-Mail Print Reprints Share Close LinkedinDiggFacebookMixxMySpaceYahoo! BuzzPermalink. Nearly 4,000 tests for heart disease performed over the last three years at Harlem Hospital Center — more than half of all such tests performed — were never read by doctors charged with making a diagnosis, hospital officials acknowledged Tuesday.
03/22/2010
20 Years After Defibrillator Rescue, His Thanks Are Heartfelt
By Laurel Walker, JSOnline
It'll be 20 years on Wednesday since Chuck Krebs died the first time.
03/02/2010
Energy Drink Blamed In Cardiac Arrest
KMBC.com
A local man said he ended up in a hospital with heart problems on a day he drank energy drinks.
01/08/2010
Postal Colleagues Irked by Slow Response to Defibrillator Request
By James Eli Shiffer, Star Tribune Minneapolis, MN
Seven months ago, Art Tilson suffered a fatal heart attack and collapsed on the floor of his workplace, the immense mail processing center by the river in downtown Minneapolis.
01/08/2010
High-tech Life-saving Device Unveiled at Local High School
By Bill Silverfarb, San Mateo Daily Journal
As a registered nurse who has a long history of working in cardiology care for children, Kim Griffin knows how critical it is to respond quickly to someone who has suffered from sudden cardiac arrest.
11/16/2009
For Men at 40, Risk of Cardiac Death 1 in 8
By Ron Winslow The Wall Street Journal
Researchers said men at age 40 in the U.S. have a one-in-eight chance of suffering sudden cardiac death over the rest of their lives, a stark indication of the toll cardiovascular disease exacts on society.
09/10/2009
Will Treating Depression Treat Heart Disease?
By Shirley S. Wang The Wall Street Journal
Patients who develop depression after heart attacks fare worse in the long term than those who don't. But will treating their depression prevent further heart problems and safe lives?
09/08/2009
Heart Failure Clinic a lifeline for the uninsured: Little-known center in Orlando provides ongoing care for heart-attack survivors
Orlando Sentinel
The $60,000 bill Vince Presley got from Florida Hospital after his heart attack last year set off a slow wave of panic: What happens now?
03/04/2009
Heart of the matter
By Bob Cohn
More than 18 years after Loyola Marymount All-American Hank Gathers collapsed during a basketball game and died shortly thereafter, mysteries remain about sudden cardiac death and the leading killer of young athletes, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
02/20/2009
Students Learn Lifesaving Techniques In Weston
By Jim Robinson, cbs4.com
The leading cause of death in America for men and women is heart disease, and within that category is a growing major health problem that's received much less publicity than heart attacks; it's called sudden cardiac arrest.
02/16/2009
The heart to do something about young deaths
The Beacon News
Reading about the sudden cardiac death of Waubonsie Valley High School junior Zumari Doby last June was very frightening.
01/27/2009
Pushing the Body's Limits
Daniel K. Vining, MD, David F. Gaieski, MD, www.jems.com
Medical emergencies associated with endurance athletics.
In the News
08/31/2010
Emergency Responders Warn AEDs Can't Save Lives Without Regular Attention
By wqow.com
08/31/2010
NY Man Dies on Flight to Milwaukee
By Associated Press
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