Cardiac arrests at school usually not in students
Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:53 PM PDT
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Student athletes collapsing from cardiac arrest in the middle of a game may grab headlines, but when someone's heart gives up at a school, it's usually not a youngster's. In a new five-year study, researchers from Michigan found that only two out of 47 cardiac arrests at K-12 schools occurred during sports events. In fact, as many as a third of cases happened after 5 ... |
FDA approves less-invasive heart defibrillator
Associated Press via Yahoo! News Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:23 PM PDT
The Food and Drug Administration says it has approved a first-of-a-kind heart-zapping implant from Boston Scientific that that does not directly touch the heart. |
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