Better Outcomes

07/08/2025

07/08/2025

The model spots previously undetected scarring patterns on cardiac MRI scans of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy—a leading cause of sudden cardiac death among young people.

07/03/2025

Thanks to you Georgia, starting this school year, schools will be better prepared to respond to cardiac emergencies thanks to new requirements for Cardiac Emergency Response Plans (CERPs). This includes a written protocol, practice drills and AEDs on site.

From students to staff, more lives can now be saved — because every second counts. ❤️

To learn more: http://spr.ly/61864YRe2

07/03/2025

After a 5-mile run, Mark Kleinschmidt couldn't stop sweating. Then his chest felt tight, and he fell to the floor. He managed to crawl down the hall his daughter’s room. Allison, a nurse, happened to be visiting. "I think I'm having a heart attack," Mark gasped.

Allison dialed 911 and gave her father aspirin. Then Mark collapsed – the heart attack had led to cardiac arrest.

For 20 minutes Allison kept chest compressions going. Performing CPR in the NICU where she worked was quite different from doing so on an adult, especially when that adult was her own father.

Paramedics arrived and used an automated external defibrillator, or AED, to try shocking his heart into a sustainable rhythm. It took seven tries. He was shocked again in the ambulance and at the hospital.

Mark was placed in a medically induced coma. He spent a month in the hospital, dealing with complications that included fluid in his lungs. In cardiac rehab he set the goal of running again. Four months later – on a freezing New Year's Day in 2018 – he ran a 5K.

"My doctors, PTs and OTs were skeptical," he said. "But I did it."

Mark's ordeal could have played out differently. His life was saved because his daughter knew what to do when it mattered most. He began hosting CPR training events, urging friends and colleagues to learn the lifesaving technique. After one of those events, a friend went to the doctor and discovered he, too, had a serious blockage.

"If you can learn CPR and have the tools to help save someone's life, why wouldn't you take the time to learn?" Allison said. "Something so simple can result in something so amazing – like saving a life. In this case, it just happened to be my dad."

07/02/2025

During his decades in emergency services, Joe Bator, first as a professional firefighter in Illinois and most recently as a volunteer with Pontiac-Price Place Volunteer Fire Department, has responded

07/02/2025

The 45-year-old said he "dropped dead" on the golf course a little more than a month ago. On Thursday, he was able to thank the people who saved his life.

07/02/2025

Johnette Wilmot learned CPR 40 years ago and somehow still remembered it when she needed to save Evan Tucker's life.

07/02/2025

When 8-year-old Gloria collapsed, her grandmother didn't panic; she acted. Charisse Huggins immediately began CPR while on the phone with Aurora911. What unfolded over the next few minutes was nothing short of a miracle.

07/02/2025

BALTIMORE, July 1, 2025 – The founder of Rescue One Training for Life, a Maryland-based provider of CPR, AED, and emergency preparedness training and equipment, will lead the charge as the chair of the 2025 American Heart Association Greater Maryland...

07/02/2025

Tommy Chan went for a five kilometer run on May 20th, but he doesn't remember anything several days either side of that.

07/02/2025

TUESDAY, July 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- From 1970 to 2022, there was a decrease in heart disease mortality overall, but an increase in mortality from other he

07/02/2025

More than a third of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the European Union do not benefit from cardiopulmonary resuscitation by emergency medical services (EMS), most often because the patient shows signs of obvious death. To preserve limited resources, it is crucial for dispatch centres to identify...