Saving Young Hearts

Study Supports ECG Screening During Pre-Participation Exam to Identify Athletes at Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death

martha — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:21:27 +0000

University of Washington researcher Jessie Fudge, MD received the Dr. Harry L. Galanty Young Investigator’s Award for excellence in sports medicine research at the 21st American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Ga. on April 24, 2012. Read More…

Pacemakers, Defibrillators Sources of Deadly Infections: Study

martha — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:17:02 +0000

Life-saving implantable pacemakers or defibrillators pose a risk for developing deadly infections, a new study suggests. Read More…

Sudden Death In Young Athletes: Can EKG Screening Prevent It?

martha — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:15:43 +0000

Issac Arzate, a 12-year-old boy from Oregon who suffered a heart attack while playing basketball in January, collapsed and died on Friday while playing baseball at his school. Read More…

Medtronic Foundation Launches Online Save-a-Life Simulation to Promote Bystander Response for Cardiac Arrest

martha — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:25:40 +0000

What would you do?

Autopsy: EHS athlete likely died from heart ailment

martha — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:43:54 +0000

Sarah Landauer, the Eastside High School soccer star who collapsed and later died about a year ago, was likely killed by a thickening of the heart muscles, according to an autopsy report. Read More…

When AEDs Fail, CPR Works

martha — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:57:15 +0000

When a sudden cardiac arrest does not respond to shocks from an automated external defibrillator (AED), continuous cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) improves survival, researchers found. Read More…

When medical implants fail

martha — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:18:37 +0000

Joshua Oukrop was 21 when he died seven years ago of a heart attack. Robert Hauser is not a relative; he was Joshua’s cardiologist. Read More…

New Program Teaches Athletes To Save Athletes

martha — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:35:05 +0000

An estimated 7 million teenagers nationwide are involved in high school sports. Read More…

AAP issues pediatric sudden cardiac arrest policy statement

martha — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:19:31 +0000

Health-care providers working in pediatrics should be able to recognize the warning signs of patients with sudden cardiac arrest and be prepared to appropriately manage them, according to a new American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement published online in Pediatrics. Read More…

Adrenaline Therapy for Cardiac Arrest Linked to Worse Outcomes

martha — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 01:08:12 +0000

The decades-old practice of treating cardiac arrest patients with epinephrine — adrenaline — might do more harm than good in the long run, suggests a new analysis of hundreds of thousands of cases. Read More…