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Prince George's County Becomes the First Community in the National Capital Region to Adopt PulsePoint
LANDOVER, MD--The 900,000 people who live in the Washington, D.C., suburb known as Prince George's County now have access to a life-saving app for their phone to alert them when a life needs to be saved. The PulsePoint application alerts people who know how to perform CPR when PG County dispatches a nearby call for a sudden cardiac arrest in a… Read More
Bob Davis Elected to Board of Directors
PITTSBURGH, PA--Bob Davis, a champion for saving lives threatened by sudden cardiac arrest, has been elected to serve on the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation Board of Directors. Davis is a communications professional and former paramedic with a passion for saving lives through team building, public education and advocacy. A "go-to" member of… Read More
Postmortem Genetic Testing May Help Determine Cause of Death After Sudden Unexpected Death
In a study appearing in the October 11 issue of JAMA, Ali Torkamani, Ph.D., of Scripps Translational Science Institute, La Jolla, Calif., and colleagues report preliminary results from a family-based, postmortem genetic testing study. Approximately 11,000 individuals younger than 45 years in the United States die suddenly and unexpectedly each… Read More
Emotional Upset and Heavy Exertion May Trigger a Heart Attack
Study Highlights Experiencing anger/emotional upset or heavy physical exertion appears to double heart attack risk. Being angry or emotionally upset while engaging in heavy physical exertion appears to triple heart attack risk. The findings do not negate the benefits of appropriate, regular physical activity in preventing heart attacks.… Read More
Kathryn Koenig Elected to Serve as Board Chair
PITTSBURGH, PA--The Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation is pleased to announce that Kathryn (Katie) Koenig has been elected to serve as Chair of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation Board of Directors. Koenig is Senior Vice President of Transformation at ATI Physical Therapy in Bolingbrook, Illinois. In her role, Koenig is responsible for strategy… Read More
Rep. Murphy's Training in CPR Helps Save Man's Life
WASHINGTON, DC--Tim Murphy’s doctoral degree is in psychology, not physical medicine, but that didn’t stop the congressman from stepping in to help resuscitate an unresponsive man found in a Capitol Hill elevator Wednesday. The Republican from Upper St. Clair was with aides waiting for an elevator near his office on the third floor of Rayburn… Read More
EMS Added a Telephone Coach and Bystander CPR Rates Nearly Doubled
WASHINGTON, DC--After Korea added a nationwide dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) program for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, rates of bystander CPR nearly doubled, according to the results of a study published online last week in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("Impact of a Dispatcher-Assisted Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation… Read More
AHA Recommends Standards to Improve Dispatcher-Assisted CPR
Public Comment Period for Program and Metrics Open Through November 16, 2016 DALLAS, TX-- The American Heart Association – the world’s leading voluntary health organization devoted to fighting cardiovascular disease – published recommendations this month that set standards for timely and high quality delivery of dispatcher-assisted CPR, also… Read More
Pittsburgh Premiere of Superior and Big Screen Debut of SCA Foundation Video A Success
PITTSBURGH, PA--During a Q and A session following a special screening of the feature film “Superior,” Director Edd Benda pointed out that the film, which had its Pittsburgh premiere at a Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation fundraising event, featured only one death scene—a mountain man suffers a cardiac arrest. Benda’s father, North Hills resident… Read More