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Penn Announces AED Registry Project in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA-- A group of Penn Medicine researchers is set to save lives with cell phone cameras -- and they're challenging the public to help. The MyHeartMap Challenge, a month-long contest slated to take place beginning in mid January, will send thousands of Philadelphians to the streets and to social media sites to locate as many automated… Read More
Is Long Distance Running Bad for the Heart?
By Jack Kelly Two men -- a 21-year-old student and a 40-year-old experienced triathlete -- died, apparently of cardiac arrest, while running the Philadelphia Marathon and Half Marathon Nov. 20. That same day in Pittsburgh, KDKA News anchor Susan Koeppen collapsed while jogging with friends in Shadyside. Ms. Koeppen, who was training for a half… Read More
New Guidelines for Preventing Sudden Death in Athletes Announced
Members of 65 sports and health organizations met Tuesday in Washington, D.C., at the third annual Youth Sports Safety Summit, to review a new position statement issued by the National Athletic Trainers' Association titled "Preventing Sudden Death in Sports." To be published in the February 2012 issue of the Journal of Athletic Training, the… Read More
Global AED Scavenger Hunt Launched at mHealth Summit
A global iRescU Location Challenge was launched this week at the mHealth Technology conference in Washington, D.C., and continues through December 19. The iRescU AED Location Challenge is an innovative project designed to build public automated external defibrillator (AED) public access databases. The individual reporting the greatest number of… Read More
Survivor and Rescuer Reunite One Year Later
By RIck Wills PITTSBURGH--Six days before last Christmas, Jay Gebhardt collapsed into a store shelf at a Downtown 7-Eleven store, then spent 10 days in an induced coma in UPMC Mercy. On Saturday — almost a year later — Gebhardt, his family and four Pittsburgh paramedics met under better circumstances, next to a giant Christmas tree in a Downtown… Read More
AHA Reaffirms Need for AEDs in Hospitals
DALLAS–The American Heart Association (AHA) takes issue with the article originally appearing on Nov. 14 as “Bad Shock…” by Lilly Fowler. The article raised questions about how the AHA developed its guidelines for the use of AEDs in hospitals. The writing group for this recommendation followed AHA policy requiring a clear majority of authors to… Read More
Four Saves in One Week
OTTAWA--A 61-year-old man who collapsed on the ice during a hockey game Friday night was the fourth man in a week revived with an automatic external defibrillator by a bystander. Dan Séguin, a sports journalist with CBC, was in net when his defenseman crumpled right in front of him. “He just basically collapsed to the ice,” Séguin said Saturday. “… Read More
Grandfather of Hockey Player Saved at Rink with AED
EMC News - A remarkable effort from emergency personnel and team officials saved the life of an Orleans man who suffered a heart attack while watching a Smiths Falls Bears Junior A game Nov. 11. Joe McGrath, the grandfather of Bears rookie defenceman Connor McGrath, collapsed during the latter stages of the first period after suffering a cardiac… Read More
Pittsburgh News Anchor Survives Cardiac Arrest
PITTSBURGH--KDKA-TV news anchor Susan Koeppen remains hospitalized after suffering cardiac arrest while running with friends. Koeppen, an award-winning journalist who returned to Pittsburgh airways on Sept. 19 to co-anchor KDKA's 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts, was stricken Sunday while running near the intersection of Centre and South Negley avenues in… Read More