Articles Tagged with ''cardiac''

The American Heart Association’s new CPR awareness campaign promises that it only takes 60 seconds to learn the life-saving skill either online  or  during free in-person sessions at  the new state-of-the-art mobile training unit that kicks off its nationwide tour in New York City .

1. Educational institutions: Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) claims more than 250,000 lives per year, regardless of age. With incidents increasingly happening on school properties, including athletic fields and courts, the need for AEDs in educational institutions is on the rise.

For the first time, researchers have discovered cardiac rehabilitation can train the heart to quickly return to its normal rate after exercise.

Leo Staudacher, 69, says he’ll never root against the Wolverines again after suffering a cardiac arrest at the University of Michigan-Notre Dame game Sept. 10.

A study of cardiac arrest deaths linked to automated external defibrillators (AEDs) found that nearly a quarter of them were due to dead batteries in the devices.