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Items Tagged with 'cardiac'

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New initiative aims to reduce repeat heart attacks

August 4, 2016
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Every 42 seconds someone in the U.S. has a heart attack. Just after noon on March 26, 2016, Julie Kubala, become one of those statistics. She’s working now to ensure she doesn’t become a different one – about 21 percent of women and 17 percent of men age 45 and older will have another heart attack within five years of their first one.
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Many Americans have dangerous misconceptions about heart failure

Lots of confusion over heart failure v. heart attack
June 18, 2015
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Nearly six million Americans currently live with heart failure, yet a recent national survey found potentially dangerous misconceptions and knowledge gaps about the disease. In fact, nearly half of those surveyed got fundamental facts about heart failure wrong and two-thirds of respondents confused signs of heart failure with signs of a heart attack.


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Vivid Learning Systems Safety Tip Tuesday: CPR

August 12, 2014
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Would you know what to do if a coworker's breathing or heartbeat stopped? If you're like 70% of Americans, the answer is no. But the ability to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, is a vital life-saving tool in many emergencies.


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Make sure your workers can quickly handle a cardiac crisis

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December 5, 2013
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According to OSHA, jobs with shift work, high stress, and exposure to certain chemicals and electrical hazards increase the risks of heart disease and cardiac arrest.


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Diagnosing heart attacks: There’s an app for that

Could help save lives
May 23, 2013
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An experimental, inexpensive iPhone application transmitted diagnostic heart images faster and more reliably than emailing photo images, according to a research study presented at the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2013.


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AEDs not in most likely sites of cardiac arrest

Getting bystanders to use them also a hurdle
March 5, 2013
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The mismatch between where cardiac arrest is most likely to happen and where automated external defibrillators (AEDS) are most likely placed may help explain in part the low survival rate for this “significant public health problem,” according to a Canadian study published yesterday online in Annals of Emergency Medicine (“Determining Risk for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest by Location Type in a Canadian Urban Setting to Guide Future Public Access Defibrillator Placement”).


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Insulated garments keep the cold out

October 5, 2012
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According to OSHA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), working in cold environments places workers at risk for hazards such as hypothermia, immersion hypothermia, frostbite, trench foot and chilblains.


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Real-life stories of survival using AEDs

October 5, 2012
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If you are in the safety business, most likely you are well aware of the function of an automated external defibrillator (AED) and its value in saving lives.


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Cintas Corp receives Heart Award for saving lives through its automated external defibrillator (AED) program

Over 200 lives saved using Cintas-provided AED
September 25, 2012
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Stat PADS, the leading independent provider of Physician Oversight & Medical Direction nationwide, today announced it has awarded Cintas Corporation with its Heart Award, an annual award that recognizes businesses and organizations for their commitment to saving lives from Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA).


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Stressful jobs increase heart attack risk

September 21, 2012
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High pressure jobs with heavy workloads, tight deadlines and restricted decision-making create significant cardiac risk in the people who hold them, according to research published in the medical journal Lancet.


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