Another Day at the Office - Thanks to an AED
On National Wear Red Day in 2018, few people at the Nashville law firm Lewis, Thomason, King, Krieg & Waldrop took notice of the occasion, which calls attention to heart disease being the No. 1 killer of women. "I think we had forgotten about it being that day," said Tania Freeman, the firm's business development officer. Still, Feb. 2, 2018, turned out to be a day many of them would never… Read More
Brothers, Age 7 and 10, Perform CPR to Save Grandmother in Cardiac Arrest
It was a Saturday night and seven-year-old Grayson Wu said that he knew something was wrong with his grandma when he asked for a snack and she didn't answer. "So I looked over and she was, like..." he said. "Unconscious, on the couch," interjects 10-year-old Kian Wu, rolling his head back and opening his mouth wide to illustrate. "She looked really dead," adds Grayson. "Spit was going back… Read More
All's Well That Ends Well
Shakespeare said, “All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players.” The Bard may have been right, but Frantzi Schaub took him a bit too literally. The Slippery Rock University drama major was entrenched in an acting class exercise designed to teach the radiating and receiving of energy to/from other students. Each student sat facing a classmate, looking deeply into each other’s… Read More
Without CPR and an AED, This Patriots Fan Would Have Died
On November 26, after leaving the Patriots/ Dolphins game, my dad, Edward K. Casabian, Jr., 75, went into sudden cardiac arrest while boarding the Providence-bound train. He was with my cousin, Ed Patriquin, an obstetrician from Davis, California, and my 11-year-old son, Luke. After seeing several pre-season games over the years, this was Luke's first regular season game—something he had been… Read More
Seven Lifeguards, Including a Future EMT, Unite to Save a Life
Politics may make strange bedfellows, as the saying goes, but they have nothing on the diverse pairings sometimes seen when cardiac arrest occurs. On June 27, 2015, 40-year-old seasoned professional, James Ross (J.R.) Bourne, was “kicking around” a soccer ball with his friend, Luis Sanchez, on Jacksonville Beach, Fla. when he suddenly collapsed in the sand. His next recollection, J.R. says, is… Read More
It Really Helps to Be Around People Who Know About CPR and How to Use a Defibrillator
If Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) strikes, there are worse places for it to happen than the environment in which Gary Schiller, MD, found himself on December 6, 2015. Gary was attending the national meeting of The American Society of Hematologists in Orlando, Florida, when, during a 5K race, he experienced “chest pains, loss of power and breathing problems.” The last thing he remembers before… Read More
17 Years and Thriving
This week, Henry Jampel, MD, celebrated the 17th anniversary of his resuscitation at breakfast in Baltimore with two of his rescuers, David Brown, MD, and Allan Krumholtz, MD, and other friends. On May 16th, 2000, at the age of 44, and seven months after completion of the Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Hawaii, Henry had a cardiac arrest in the shower after a swim workout. After 27… Read More
Survivor Pays It Back...10 Years Later
Alan Langman, Marc Goyette and Tim Dewhurst have been playing soccer together recreationally for more than 10 years. The trio plays year round on 40-50 fields throughout the Puget Sound area so when the three of them prepared to play a game on Sept. 22 at Hartman Park in Redmond, things were no different. But about 30 minutes into the game, Goyette saw Langman go down. Langman's knees buckled… Read More
Knowing the Signs and Reducing the Risk
Steve Englert’s link to Sudden Cardiac Arrest is a bit different from others featured on this site. Steve is not a survivor. He has not suffered an SCA. He has not had to be rescued by heroes with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or an automated external defibrillator (AED.) Steve got involved with the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation because of his risk of SCA. “My dad, grandfather and… Read More