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SCA Foundation Presents AED to Winner of First iRescU AED Challenge
NEW YORK--Linda Cotter-Forbes, of Rhinebeck, New York, was recognized yesterday at an awards ceremony at the New York Athletic Club for winning first place in the first iRescU AED Scavenger Hunt Challenge. The Challenge was launched during the 2011 American Heart Association Conference in November. Linda reported the location of 37 AEDs during a… Read More
Survey: Most Americans Unfamiliar with Heart Rhythm Disorders and SCA
Washington, D.C. - According to a new survey issued by the Heart Rhythm Society, the majority of Americans are unaware of two serious and potentially life-threatening heart rhythm disorders: atrial fibrillation (AF) and sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). In fact, only one in three Americans has ever heard of AF or recognize the number of lives claimed… Read More
Will Anti-Arryhthymic Drug Beat SCA?
Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is the leading cause of death in the United States. SCA kills 325,000 people every year, representing one death every two minutes. Almost all SCA victims die before they even reach a hospital. To identify a drug that paramedics can use in the field, UC San Diego Health System has opened a clinical trial to evaluate two… Read More
Allegheny General Hospital Doctors Perform Innovative Treatment for Ventricular Tachycardia
Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) - Heart specialists at Allegheny General Hospital (AGH) have joined a select group in the country offering patients who suffer from the common and potentially deadly heart rhythm disorder ventricular tachycardia(VT) a new, minimally invasive therapy called epicardial VT ablation. One of the leading causes of sudden cardiac… Read More
iRescU AED Scavenger Hunt Winners to Be Recognized on Valentine's Day in NYC
iRescU announced the winners of its inaugural Scavenger Hunt Challenges today for geolocating Automated External Defibrillators (AED)- heart starting devices - in the community. iRescU is a new public education and information initiative under development to help save lives, using crowd sourcing, cloud-based technology and smartphones to… Read More
13-Year-Old Saves Mother's Life--to the Tune of Stayin' Alive
NORTHAMPTON, MA - As he performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on his mother, 13-year-old George Hamilton says he was driven by a Bee Gees song. "I was kinda going, 'Stayin' alive, Stayin' alive,'" he said recently, mimicking the compressions he delivered to the beat of the 1977 disco classic. The teen's efforts, paramedics say, helped save… Read More
Study: Fainting a Factor in SCA
LONDON, Ontario – Up to 45,000 sudden cardiac arrests occur each year in Canada, and less than five percent survive. In some of these cases, the event cannot be explained by the presence of underlying heart disease. In order to identify people at risk of these unexplained cardiac events, a newly published study examined the presence of certain… Read More
Bystanders Use Airport's AED to Save a Life
DULUTH, MN - Bystanders used an automated external defibrillator and CPR to revive a woman who collapsed at Duluth International Airport on Sunday afternoon. The woman was waiting to go through security when she collapsed. Bystanders, including a nurse, couldn't find a pulse or sign of breathing. A Transportation Security Administration supervisor… Read More
Are AEDs a Good Investment? You Bet Your Life.
A recent article in the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philly.com was a cause for concern for the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation. Authors Arthur Caplan, MD, and James Fitzpatrick, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania, cautioned readers about buying defibrillators, suggesting the concept of public access defibrillation may be overrated. More... We… Read More