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Intercollegiate Athletics Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Intercollegiate Athletics Are you prepared Prevalence of Sudden Cardiac Arrest SCA affects about 1 in 44000 NCAA Student Athletes Annually Of the deaths from medical causes 56 were cardiovascularrelated sudden deaths. Facts About Sudden Cardiac Arrest in the Young Each year in the United States 350000 Americans die suddenly and unexpectedly due to cardiac arrhythmias 3976 of them are young people under age 35 CDC 2002 1 in 200000 high school athletes in the US wi Ideker MD PhD and Derek J Dosdall PhD Abstract There is only a small amount of experimental data about whether the TASER X26 a nonlethal weapon that delivers a series of brief electrical pulses to cause involuntary muscular contraction to temporaril TRACK YOUR EF Understanding Your Ejection Fraction EF EF is the percentage of blood that is pumped from your heart during each beat CHECKLIST Heres a list of questions to ask your doctor or healthcare provider hould I be concerned with my EF number Medicolegal. Autopsies. First Author : . Demeny. Andrea. Coauthor . : . Munteanu. Lucian. Coordinator : . Lecturer . Hadareanu. . Viorel. Background. Sudden cardiac death(SCD) is defined as being a natural death, of a cardiac nature, with an unexpected loss of consciousness, related, or not, to the existing heart condition.. MODERATOR. – DR. CHANDRIKA. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR. DEPT. OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE. PRESENTED BY . DEPT. . OF EMEERGENCY MEDICINE. Introduction. Key interventions to prevent arrest. Adult cardiac arrest algorithm. Victoria L. Vetter, MD, MPH, . Youth Heart Watch Medical Director. Danielle Haley, MPH, . Youth Heart Watch Coordinator. Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA). A condition . in which the heartbeat stops abruptly and . Susan P. Torrey, MD, FAAEM, FACEP. Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine. UMass Medical School – . Baystate. Medical Center. I have nothing to declare, but…. www.TorreyEKG.com. Outcomes following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with . Victoria L. Vetter, MD, MPH, . Youth Heart Watch Medical Director. Danielle Haley, MPH, . Youth Heart Watch Coordinator. Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA). A condition . in which the heartbeat stops abruptly and . Intercollegiate Athletics. Sudden Cardiac Arrest. in Intercollegiate Athletics. Are you prepared ?. Prevalence of Sudden Cardiac Arrest. SCA affects about 1 in 44,000 NCAA Student Athletes Annually. Of the deaths from medical causes, 56% were cardiovascular-related sudden deaths. An Important Public Health IssueCardiac arrest is a public health issue with widespread incidence andsevere impact on human health and well-being There are severalrecommended strategies for prevention Cardiac Arrest. A cardiac arrest occurs when the heart stops beating and breathing stops. Heart Attack. A heart attack occurs when an artery supplying blood to your heart becomes completely blocked. A patient might complain of chest pain and the heart continues to beat. Introduction. Background to sudden cardiac arrest. Why AEDs are important. Product Demo. Lifeline AEDs. Safety and Effectiveness. Hands on. Agenda. Why is Defibrillation Important?. The problem of sudden cardiac arrest!. Looper. What is Sudden Cardiac Arrest?. According to nih.gov, sudden cardiac arrest is defined as . is a condition in which the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating.. When this happens, blood is not flowing to the organs, specifically the heart and brain itself.. Project ADAM . Project ADAM (. A. utomated . D. efibrillators in . A. dam’s . M. emory. ) began . in 1999 in Wisconsin when Adam . Lemel. . collapsed and died while playing basketball. Adam suffered a sudden cardiac arrest, in which an AED could have been used to save his .