When used within the first three minutes of a sudden cardiac arrest, an AED can increase survival rates by over 80-percent. AEDs can save lives, but their life-saving ability hinges on the capabilities of the people nearby. Here’s everything you need to know!
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Knowing the difference could be an important factor in how you react and how medical professionals approach the immediate problem. Here are 12 things that separate cardiac arrest, heart attack, and heart failure…
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper has promised 10-million dollars in funding to place more defibrillators in Canada’s hockey rinks, as part of a 2011 Conservative party promise. The Public Health Agency of Canada will be charged with outfitting more than 1,500 portable defibrillators to 3,000 rinks over the next 4 years starting in the spring, and […]
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Dying of a broken heart is possible—especially during the holidays! This fact came to light recently at a conference for primary-care physicians at Vancouver’s St. Paul’s Hospital. The conference was focused on “Takotsubo Syndrome”, a type of stress cardiomyopathy, or (literally) broken heart, which tends to attack older women suffering severe emotional turmoil. The typical […]
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It has been discovered that women who undergo early menopause are at a greater risk of having a cardiac incident or a stroke. The study was conducted at the University of Alabama on twenty five hundred women. In this study there were almost seven hundred women that had undergone early menopause. It was discovered that […]
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