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Fargo, Moorhead Unveil App to Get Quicker Help for SCA Victims
FARGO, ND--A new local smartphone app may help save lives by turning more people into rescuers. The PulsePoint app is integrated with the Red River Regional Dispatch Center, which handles calls throughout the metro area. When a call comes in about a suspected cardiac arrest, the 911 communications center activates an alert to PulsePoint app users… Read More
Shocking Heart Deaths: Why They Happen
Someone in the prime of their life -- a professional sports star, teen athlete, marathon runner, or other seemingly healthy person -- isn't supposed to collapse and die from heart disease. But it occasionally happens, making sudden cardiac arrest front-page news. The rare nature of sudden cardiac arrest among the young is precisely what makes it… Read More
Training and ZOLL AEDs Help Ottawa Paramedic Service Saves Lives
One City Employee Saves a Second Hockey Player from SCA ZOLL Medical Corporation, a manufacturer of medical devices and related software solutions, announced today that the Public Access Defibrillator program conducted by the Ottawa Paramedic Service (OPS) has saved 74 lives from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) thanks to training individuals in… Read More
28-Year-Old Cardiac Arrest Survivor Meets EMS Personnel Who Helped Save Him
RICHMOND, VA--When Michael Snyder, Jr. suffered a sudden cardiac arrest last December at the age of 27, immediate action was taken by his family and soon thereafter, emergency services. All worked together to save his life. Michael, his wife Jennifer, Jennifer’s brother and cousin had returned home after dinner out and Michael began to feel ill… Read More
Henry Ford Hospital Implants New Defibrillator for Sudden Cardiac Arrest
DETROIT, MI--A new internal defibrillator, on the cusp of a new standard of care in American cardiology to treat patients for a major heart risk, is being used at Henry Ford Hospital. Compared to the current devices used to treat sudden cardiac arrest, the new internal defibrillator has less risk of infection, no clots forming in blood vessels, no… Read More
What Bystanders Should Know About CPR--And Why
Bystander-initiated cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has poor neurological outcome, and this is true even when the bystanders are family members, which suggests deficits in public CPR training. A recent Japanese study of CPR initiated out of hospital by family versus non-family showed that significantly fewer family members initiated CPR (P<… Read More
Sudden Cardiac Death in Untreated Lyme Carditis
Quick-thinking pathologists at a Georgia tissue bank recently found Lyme disease in sudden cardiac death patients whose tissues were being examined for transplant use. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported details of those cases in an article published in the December 13 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality… Read More
AED Registration to Be Required in Manitoba Beginning January 1
The Manitoba, CA, provincial government is making anybody with an AED (automated external defibrillator) to be required by law, as of Jan. 1, 2014, to register with the Heart and Stroke Foundation (HSF), who in turn lets emergency medical services know the locations of every operational AED. AEDs are compact, easy to use devices that diagnose… Read More
Flight Crew Use Defibrillator to Save Passenger at Edmonton International Airport
EDMONTON, AL--Moments after he stepped off a flight from Phoenix Wednesday evening, Wayne Gaalaas felt a bit light-headed. Then he collapsed. Within seconds, WestJet and United aircrews at the Edmonton International Airport stepped in, performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the 73-year-old Camrose man before using a nearby defibrillator to… Read More