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New Watch Can Help Doctors Monitor Your Heart in Real Time
There will soon be another way to monitor your heart from your wrist. The Apple Watch 4 that was unveiled Wednesday will include electrocardiogram testing. Often referred to as an EKG or ECG, this is how health care providers check the electricity in a patient’s heart. To a layman, these are the squiggly lines across a monitor. Usually, it takes… Read More
City of Reno and Flirtey Complete First Flights Under FAA Pilot Program for Drone Delivery of AEDs
RENO, NV--The City of Reno and Flirtey today announce that they have successfully completed their first flights in the FAA’s Drone Integration Pilot Program (IPP), which is fast-tracking regulatory approvals for drone delivery. Conducting the first multi-drone delivery demonstration under the FAA’s IPP, a single Flirtey pilot simultaneously… Read More
Are Die-Hard Football, Other Sports Fans Putting Their Hearts at Risk?
Tailgate parties are kicking off the NFL's regular season, and if the brats and burgers, cheese dips and chili bowls aren’t enough to give passionate sports fans heart problems, all the close calls and tense final moments of upcoming games just might. Football fans aren’t the only ones at risk. Some studies have shown sporting events like World… Read More
Denali Expedition Successfully Obtains High-Altitude Cardiac Data Using Wearable ECG Sensor
KIRKLAND, WA (BUSINESS WIRE)--You love the outdoors – but your heart might not. If you enjoy skiing, hiking and other sports experienced at high altitudes, you might be well advised to spend your first day at altitude taking it easy. In older men, especially those unaccustomed to intense physical exertion and with coronary artery disease (CAD)… Read More
Heart Disease Common Among Firefighters Who Die of Cardiac Arrest
Study Highlights: The majority of firefighters who died from cardiac arrest had autopsy confirmed evidence of coronary artery disease, or narrowing of the arteries, and structural abnormalities, including an enlarged heart and increased wall thickness of the primary chamber for pumping blood, or left ventricle. Among cardiac fatalities,… Read More
Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation Partners with Children’s Cardiomyopathy Foundation to Call Attention to Children’s “Silent” Heart Disease
Children’s Cardiomyopathy Awareness Month Urges Families to #KnowYourHeart to Learn Risk Factors PITTSBURGH, PA--All too often, we read a headline of a star athlete who suddenly collapses on the night of the big game, or a baby who dies in her sleep. Chances are, a little-known heart condition is the cause. The Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation is… Read More
More Patients Survive Sudden Cardiac Arrest with New EMS Technique
Study funded by NIH showed a change in use of breathing tube can save more lives. A new study showed that a change in the type of breathing tube paramedics use to resuscitate patients with sudden cardiac arrest can significantly improve the odds of survival and save thousands of lives. More than 90 percent of Americans who experience sudden… Read More
Security Body Scanner Safe for Patients with Pacemakers and Defibrillators
Body scanners used for security checks are safe for patients with pacemakers and defibrillators, according to late breaking research presented at ESC Congress 2018. Across the globe more than four million patients with heart failure or cardiac arrhythmias rely on pacemakers and defibrillators to keep their hearts beating regularly. It has been… Read More
National Cardiac Arrest Collaborative to Meet in October
The National Cardiac Arrest Collaborative (NCAC) committee on establishing a national cardiac arrest registry will meet in San Diego, CA, on October 4th during the American College of Emergency Physicians annual conference. Related task forces will address structure and function of the registry, advocacy, and data interoperability. The… Read More