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Hillsborough Fitness Club Faces Lawsuit in EMT’s Death
Family: Defibrillator wasn't used in time MORRIS, N.J. -- Thomas Durkin wasn't just an emergency medical technician. The former president of the Kendall Park First Aid Squad was passionate about safety. That's why his family believes the South Brunswick man knew he was within inches of a device that could have helped save him after he collapsed at… Read More
Gary Terry - AHA Texas Chapter Chairman Survives SCA
Eight months earlier the AED that saved Gary was installed at the Austin airport security checkpoint. Gary collapsed within 18 feet of the AED and was revived with the unit within four minutes. He lives to tell the tale. You can see it all happen, the rescue was captured on the security camera! - click here for the CNN video.
A Walk to Work Ends With a Miracle
Michael McKee, Minneapolis, MN – 58 at time of event (2008) Michael struggles to maintain a healthy weight. He is committed to it. So much so that he walks the four miles or so to work and back each day. It’s quite pleasant, along the Mississippi river, past the University of Minnesota, and the University Hospital. “It was a… Read More
She’s Not Joking
Anne Duffy, Moorestown, NJ – 37 at time of event (2007) It was a stressful week in early December, and their son’s fifth birthday party had taken it’s toll. They were relaxing on the sofa together, after dinner. Anne felt dizzy and some nausea. She started to say “I think I’m going to pass out,” but didn’t get that far. David felt her fall into… Read More
Five-Time Survivor Pays it Forward
Matthew D. Noble survived five sudden cardiac arrests (SCA) before he was 17, thanks to bystanders who performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Born in 1976 with an abnormal heart, Noble now has an implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) that corrects abnormal rhythms. He also sells the devices in the Great Lakes Bay Region for Boston… Read More
Documentary Explores Therapeutic Hypothermia
Every year, about 40,000 people in Canada go into sudden, cardiac arrest. About 95% die. But doctors and researchers are experimenting with new ways of delivering treatment, and they're offering some glimmers of hope. In Ontario, a clinical trial is underway that involves chilling the bodies of those whose hearts have stopped functioning. The hope… Read More
A Coach With a New Career
Dale Wakasugi, St Paul, MN – 49 at time of event (2007) It all started in Seattle sometime in 1995. Dale was a victim of his heredity, and not a traditional Japanese one. Working in the pharmaceutical industry he was only 36 years old, and yet he suffered a heart attack. Technically known as an MI (Myocardial Infarction) it was caused by a… Read More
Let Me Go By Myself First
Kim Zalepa, Interlaken, NJ – 40 at time of event (2008) It was their first skiing trip with the kids. Kim was feeling nervous, almost like a novice, since she hadn’t been skiing for over a decade. They’d had two daughters in eight years and felt it was time to enjoy a day in the snow that March. Kim and her husband,Todd, took… Read More
Doctors at PENN Champion Hypothermia to Preserve Brain Function
Their efforts are profiled in Popular Science Members of Penn Medicine’s department of Emergency Medicine and division of Cardiovascular Medicine are profiled in a Popular Science magazine cover story about the growing use of therapeutic hypothermia to preserve brain and organ function following cardiac arrest. Quoted in the story are Lance Becker… Read More