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Carol Mortensen's List: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM)
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Oct 02, 10
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An AED program can give education institutions assurance that they have invested in technology that can save lives.
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When someone experiences SCA, the time for response is short. The AHA advises the optimum time for reviving individuals suffering from SCA is within three minutes of the incident. When a person has immediate access to automatic external defibrillators (AEDs), these survival rates increase by as much as 80 percent. This rate drops to 2 percent for individuals left untreated after 10 minutes.
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Do you know where the nearest defibrillator is?
Seconds count if you or someone near you has a sudden cardiac arrest. It happens to roughly 1,000 Americans every day. Although it often accompanies a heart attack, sudden cardiac arrest can happen to young and seemingly healthy people, too, and 95% of victims die before emergency personnel arrive.
The odds improve dramatically if somebody on the scene can quickly start cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, to get blood flowing through the victim's heart and uses an automatic external defibrillator, or AED, to shock it back into normal rhythm. If you go into sudden cardiac arrest in a Chicago airport, where AEDs are plentiful, your chance of survival is greater than 50%. It's as high as 74% in casinos, where trained personnel are watching constantly.
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This 8-minute video, The Rescue of Matt Keene: A Case for AEDs in Schools, tells the story of Matt Keene, a 17-year-old athlete who went into cardiac arrest following football practice in New Hampshire.
It highlights the importance of CPR training and early defibrillation programs.
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Aug 02, 11
The loss of many of our young students and athelets is due to this. Please take a minute and read. "This form will help you identify those who may be at risk and who will benefit from additional testing to look for conditions that cause SCA.
The HCMA offers the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Risk Assessment Form, SCARAF, This form should be distributed to all school age children and families. This 2- page form has the AHA 12 point items addressed and written in a manner that a parent is more likely to provide as clinically relevant data to a physician. This document was created with the assistance of Dr. Robert Campbell and the HCMA. It offers 3 options Yes – No – Unsure. Should the parent/you answers Yes or Unsure to any question they are offered 3 steps to follow:
1. Bring this form to your personal physician and discuss cardiac screening.
2. Seek an evaluation from a cardiac professional including appropriate testing (ECG, echocardiogram and additional if warrented) and consultation.
3. Share this information with your family.
This tool creates a clinical indication for testing should the parent identify a risk factor; therefore, the clinical evaluation and testing should be covered by all major insurance programs in the USA. This tool also has the power to move beyond the child and to the parent as it is far more common to see a death under the age of 54 and over the age of 24, therefore the parents are at a similar risk as the child." -
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Oct 02, 10
The HCMA is structured with medical advisors governing all of the medical content provided by the HCMA and a Board of Director governing the day-to-day operations and growth. The HCMA is supported by grants and donations. The HCMA does not profit from referrals to any center, devices, and medications or from any information given to assist visitors to our site or members.
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