#HeartBucketList #ImpactEveryday

My next #heartbucketlist goal is out and it's AMAAAAZING! I'm looking for a few young women who want to spread the word about #heartability and make an #impacteveryday. Join me May 30th, 2016 in Interlaken Switzerland, as I hike the Hardergrat Trail. Hardergrat is one of the most beautiful ridge… Read More

Why We Do What We Do

Someone recently wrote to the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation and asked us why we do what we do. Why do we work so hard to raise awareness about sudden cardiac arrest and help save lives? Why don’t we just accept the concept of letting people die naturally when it is their time? This question is… Read More

Learn it Young and Remember it Forever

An ad was created by a Cape Town agency, Not Norm for Scouts South Africa (SSA), the biggest youth organization in South Africa. The group teaches children and young adults "leadership abilities, teamwork, self-motivation, commitment, perseverance, environmental and cultural awareness and strong… Read More

Survivors, Share Your Selfies!

September 29th is World Heart Day. October is National Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month. If you are a survivor of cardiac arrest, please consider sharing a photo of yourself holding the attached 8.5 x 11 inch sign, by either: Posting it on the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation Facebook page… Read More

Please contact your legislators today

Your help is needed today to save the federally-funded Rural and Community Access to Emergency Devices Program. Designed to save lives from cardiac arrest, this program is in jeopardy of being terminated. The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee proposes to end this life-saving program, but the U.S… Read More

Why it is so important to begin chest compression immediately and not stop

Often newspapers and magazines make a statement that implies that the probability of surviving a cardiac arrest is a x% per minute declining ramp. This, it turns out, is an oversimplification. In many cases it's more accurate to think of it as three steps of decreasing survival probability: The… Read More

Sudden Cardiac Arrest

On July 3, 2015, I suffered SCA while visiting family in Murrysville, PA. My husband and mother in law performed CPR on me until the paramedics arrived. They resuscitated me and life flighted me to UPMC Presbyterian. While there, a defibrillator (S-ICD) was implanted. I am receiving treatment for… Read More

The Importance Of Beginning Chest Compressions As Early As Possible

One doesn't have to read much about CPR for Cardiac Arrest victims to encounter the assertion that the probability of survival decreases about 10 percent per minute. Sometime other numbers are used. This, it turns out, is an oversimplification. One common sequence seen in sudden cardiac arrests is… Read More

Need quick help, please

My girlfriend had a stroke that kept her without a heartbeat for seventeen minutes. As soon as she was given cardiac pulmonary resuscitation and defibrillation, she got her consciousness back. She was okay till the very next morning, but when she was reminded of the issue that gave her a stroke,… Read More

Survivor

What I thought to be a normal day back in November 2013, quickly turned into my worst nightmare. After being at work for the day and coming home and doing my normal chores of school run and cooking dinner. I then got my kids to bed and proceeded to go for a run with my 7 year old Staffordshire bull… Read More