Archive - Sep 2010

Some Like it Hot character actor and father of Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Curtis succumbed to cardiac arrest in Las Vegas on September 29 . He was 85 years old. Cardiac arrest as cause of death was confirmed by the Clark County coroner.

PITTSBURGH--October is National Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month, dedicated to educating the public about sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) and how to prevent and respond to it. 2010 is also the 50th anniversary of CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation), a lifesaving gift that anyone can give to a loved one or even a stranger.

PITTSBURGH--On
October 13, 2010, all charitable donations made through PittsburghGives.org
will receive a portion of The Pittsburgh Foundation’s $500,000 matching
pool.  Give to the Sudden Cardiac
Arrest Foundation at anytime on that day and your gift will make an even
greater impact in our community.

Runner Has Cardiac Arrest at Ten Miler Event
Posted: Sep 25, 2010 7:25 PMUpdated: Sep 25, 2010 7:25 PM
Lynchburg, VA- Lynchburg LifeSaving Crew says one male runner had a full cardiac arrest during the race on Saturday.
Lynchburg Fire department and Lynchburg Life Saving Crew members performed CPR on the man. Officials say they had to give him a shock to help restart his heart
The man was taken to Lynchburg General Hospital. And, officials say he is ok at this time.

THE SHORT FORM:When someone gets hit hard in the chest in the area of the heart, cardiac arrest can result. This is one source of cardiac arrest in young athletes. Only about a quarter of these victims survive. Those that do survive are associated with immediate CPR and prompt defibrillation. Congenital defects can also cause these events.

To recognize the 50th anniversary of CPR and National Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month in October, the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Coalition will host a lunchtime briefing on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010, in Washington, D.C. about sudden cardiac arrest and what Congress can do to help save lives.

Lance Becker, MD, Director of the Center for Resuscitation Science and Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, keynote speaker, will address the impact of the nation's third leading cause of death* and solutions for improving survival.

Please visit http://www.slicc.org/Pepsi
SLICC has applied for a $250,000 grant to deploy 75 AED's and equip/support 25 additional neighborhood CPR training centers in Chatham County, GA.
We need your non-financial support to win this grant.
Please vote online and by texting every day. This will save lives.
Thank you,

Aurora medics perfecting the back-to-life cycleBy SARA CASTELLANOSThe Aurora SentinelPublished: Thursday, September 16, 2010 8:00 AM MDT
Ale Kerekes, RN and clinical educator, performs chest compressions on a dummy, Nathan Daly operates a bag valve mask and Gilbert Pineda, MD, and EMS medical director, oversees the Resuscitaion Choreogaphy drill Sept. 9 at The Medical Center of Aurora. (Gabriel Christus/The Aurora Sentinel)

The protagonist is a person whose heart has stopped beating.

The secondary characters are firefighters, physicians and nurses.

Advanced Rescuer- versus Citizen-Witnessed Cardiac Arrest: Is There a Difference in Outcome? 
[Note from Bob: for those with busy schedules, the short answer is 'No']

I'm all set: I took a CPR course three or four years ago.

• It's not your memory that will let you down - it's the fact that CPR has changed a lot in the past few years, and it's probably going to change on October 18th this year.