Month: March 2016
April is National Youth Sports Safety Month! Spring is here and summer little league, T-ball, soccer, and lacrosse leagues are starting up soon.
Maybe you have seen the stories on your local news – “Man, woman, child, saved by quick-thinking bystanders who performed CPR and used an Automated External Defibrillator to save them after they went into sudden cardiac arrest.”
Last December we blogged about a good cause which helps the American Heart Association raise awareness of heart disease and congenital heart defects in newborns. The “Little Hats, Big Hearts™” program…
A Case Study of One Woman’s Experience with Atrial Fibrillation Patsy is a 64-year-old, otherwise healthy, Caucasian female with zero cardiac risk factors, save for about 15 excess pounds of body habitus. Throughout the course of the past 25 years, she had experienced sporadic events which included heart palpitations, flutters, and intense heart racing. She always correlated these events to anxiety attacks and related symptoms of the same – atrial fibrillation was the furthest item from her mind. She was continually subjected to a quite demanding schedule, with a full-time executive position in the sales department of a major corporation …