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Dick Cheney Recuperates from Heart Surgery
Former Vice President Dick Cheney says he underwent heart surgery last week and is recuperating. In a statement, Cheney said he had been experiencing increasing congestive heart failure and after consultations with his doctors, he had received an implantable pump, to improve heart function. He said the operation went well and he is recuperating.… Read More
Paramedic Students Use Social Media and Humor to Raise Awareness of CPR and AEDs
Paramedic Students Use Social Media and Humor to Raise Awareness of CPR and AEDs Pittsburgh, Penn. – The Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation today announced the grand prize winner of its You Can Save a Life Video Awareness Contest. The student competition invited teams to submit videos about the impact of sudden cardiac arrest and the importance of… Read More
Won't You Be My Neighbor?...Won't You Learn How to Save a Life?
The Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation is thrilled to announce its annual awards reception, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?...Won’t You Learn How to Save a Life?, to take place on October 7, 5:30-7:30 PM, at the Rivers Club, One Oxford Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The event will honor survivors of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) and the neighborly… Read More
FDA Recalls Certain LIFEPAK 20, 20e Defibrillator/Monitors
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a class 1 recall of the LIFEPAK 20 and LIFEPAK 20e external defibrillator/monitors, which are designed for use by trained medical personnel in hospitals and clinic settings to monitor patient heart rhythms and to treat patients experiencing cardiac arrest. The recall affects approximately 43,… Read More
Compliance High Among Patients with Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillators
In addition to showing high rates of patient compliance, new study data suggested that survival and mortality rates were similar among patients with a wearable cardioverter defibrillator and those with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). Data from 3,569 patients who wore a wearable defibrillator for at least one day from August 2002… Read More
NIH Awards Grant to Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute to Study How to Predict SCA
The Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute has been awarded a $1.66 million, four-year grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health to develop a measurement system that could help doctors predict which patients could be struck by sudden cardiac arrest, a heart rhythm disturbance that causes instant death in… Read More
Scientists Reveal Mystery of Sudden Cardiac Death During Sleep
Scientists at The University of Manchester have solved a mystery connected with why people die from sudden cardiac arrest during sleep – potentially saving thousands of lives. The pioneering research, using detailed computer models, could help save lives through preventative treatment of those most at risk from a form of heart rhythm disorder… Read More
ICDs Effective in Reducing Deaths Among Older Heart Failure Patients
Use of implanted cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) reduced three-year mortality by nearly 30 percent among Medicare patients with heart failure, found a new study. At the end of one year, heart failure patients who received ICDs experienced lower mortality than those who did not (19.8 vs. 27.6 percent). At three years, patients who received ICDs… Read More
Sheriff Deputies Use AED to Save Airport Traveler
Two Broward County, Fla. sheriffs deputies are being hailed as heroes for saving the life of a passenger who had suffered a heart attack minutes after stepping off a plane. BSO said deputies Dave Kofalk and Joe Baxter were handling an arrest warrant Friday afternoon when they were told that a man had collapsed outside the U.S. Customs area at… Read More