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Check back here for all of the latest Screening America news!Preventing sudden heart death in children: 4 questions can help
July 09, 2021 By: Claire McCarthy, MD, Senior Faculty Editor, Harvard Health Publishing We tend to think about sudden deaths like these in athletes, since we commonly hear about them happening on a playing field — and because most of the prevention efforts have been...
Teen revived by bystanders after collapsing on basketball court
August 03, 2021 at 11:50 pm EDT By Christine McCarthy, Boston 25 News HAVERHILL, Mass. — A Haverhill teen who collapsed on the basketball court is thanking the Good Samaritans who saved his life. Julio Delgado, 17, was playing in a basketball tournament at Mass...
How COVID-19 is impacting bystander response to cardiac arrest and CPR training
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – (December 10, 2020) – In a survey of 337 CPR instructors, researchers at Avive Solutions found widespread concerns about the negative impact that COVID-19 is having on bystander willingness to help victims of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest...
Screening America Part of National Pilot Program
CSRC Spearheads Creation of First National Pediatric Cardiac Screening Database FDA, industry, and patient advocacy groups join effort to advance effective cardiac screening October 15, 2020 08:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Cardiac...