January 22, 2007 – HeartScreen America will offer low-cost electrocardiograms (ECGs) at Rhinebeck High School, Rhinebeck, NY, on January 26-27 for students six years of age and older, parents, faculty and staff. The initiative to detect heart defects will be conducted in honor of Maggie O’Malley, a varsity athlete, who died from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) last summer. She would have been a senior at Rhinebeck High School this year.
ECGs are not typically part of annual physicals at schools, but without them, potentially fatal heart abnormalities often go undetected until it is too late. For more information, see http://www.heartscreenamerica.com.