Saving American Hearts, Inc Blog

Overdose survivor succeeds with county Narcan policyTwo years ago on an early August morning, Warren Phillips of Big Piney was lying in his F150 truck, unconscious, unresponsive and basically dead, af …

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Ambulance 'response times' miss the big picture: health outcomesNo one would dream of requiring that every patient seen in emergency rooms across our state is treated within 12 minutes.Such a stringen …

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CPR, AED help save life of futsal player who collapsed in PenangBUTTERWORTH: A 53-year-old futsal player, who pushed himself too hard and suffered a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), was saved by quick act …

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PulsePoint alerts users when CPR is needed within a quarter mileApp aims to 'increase the chances of survival’ for those experiencing cardiac arrestEvery year roughly 380,000 people experience a cardi …

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Trained bystanders, EMS specialists increase cardiac arrest survival chancesIn Harrison and Hancock counties, our local out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rate is higher than the national average …

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CPR knowledge: Learning how to save a life like a 17-year-old did at Pine GrillTwo days after 17-year-old Landon Strelko was certified through the Somerset County Technology Center CPR training, he ne …

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