Cardiac Arrest: Three Steps to Recovery
Cardiac arrest can be described as a sudden decrease or complete cessation of cardiac function. In other words, the heart stops beating or stops beating effectively and efficiently, and causes a...
View ArticleSudden Cardiac Arrest: What You Can Do to Help
Heart attacks or cardiac arrest are killers. These killers are often silent and appear with little to no warning. The heart muscle is a unique muscle of the body. The skeletal muscles need direct...
View ArticlePublic Fear of Defibrillators Could Cost Lives
Thanks to popular medical dramas such as Grey’s Anatomy, House, and the late ER, we are all vaguely familiar with defibrillators. However, there is still a lot of fear and misinformation about...
View ArticleThe Importance of Portable Defibrillators
Just about anyone who has a television knows what a defibrillator is. We’ve seen them used many times on medical drama shows to deliver a shock to the heart, reestablishing the heart’s rhythm. For a...
View ArticleStrategies for Proactively Avoiding Heart Disease
Whether dealing with abnormal heart rhythm or the consequences of poor health, it is essential to begin taking steps to start proactively avoiding heart disease. Medical innovations like the...
View ArticleThe Importance of Defibrillators in Public Places
A defibrillator is a valuable device to have around when there’s an emergency situation, such as a person’s having cardiac arrest, or when their heart stops and it is not receiving enough oxygen, which...
View ArticleRecovering From a Heart Attack
Recovering from a heart attack may take two or three months. You may only be in the hospital for a week, perhaps even less, but it may take a while before you can return to all the activities you were...
View ArticleDefibrillators in Public Places Increase Survival Rates
Many years ago, if a person had a heart attack and was in a public place, the results could be devastating if emergency medical treatment was not provided in time. Whether the person would make it or...
View ArticleWhy Cardiac Arrest Survival Odds are Better in Public Places
Cardiac arrest is when the heart ceases to function. A heart attack, which is the blockage of a vessel supplying a heart muscle, can cause the heart to stop. But nearly 80% of cardiac arrests are not...
View ArticleModern AEDs Require Little Training
Defibrillation is the process of delivering electrical currents to the heart of a person with a life threatening cardiac emergency, such as cardiac arrhythmias, ventricular fibrillation, and pulseless...
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