Heart Health Risks of Living the High-Rise Building Life Yikes! The National Post just put out a new story on the heart risks of living the high-rise life. Living above the third-floor drastically reduces your chances of surviving cardiac arrest, study suggests. That is certainly something to consider and also something that many people probably…
Heatstroke and Cardiac Arrest – What You Need to Know! Heatstroke and Cardiac Arrest. The two may not be directly related, but they do pop up together in a Google search. The reason is because the two can be connected! Here is what you need to know about heatstroke and cardiac arrest, and what is…
Heart Healthy Recipe – Mother’s Day Vegan Brownie Recipe Happy Mothers Day! We are wishing you the heart-filling, tummy-filling, love-full day that you deserve. We believe the best thing you can give is quality time. With so much going on day-to-day the best way to say “I love you and appreciate all you have…
10 Easy, Every-Day Exercises (to Improve Your Heart Health!) “I don’t have time”, “The gym is too expensive”, “I’m too tired”, “It doesn’t work”, “I can’t stay motivated”, “I have to take care of the family”, “It hurts!” These are some of the top reasons people don’t exercise… but these excuses have no weight…
How to Prevent Death by Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) For anyone that is familiar with Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) you know that it can happen to anyone at any time. However, there are people that have a higher risk than others and there are ways to prevent death resulting from SCA. Three factors to…
Project Brock – Brock’s Law If you have not already heard, Project Brock is a foundation started by Kim Ruether, mother of Brock Ruether, with a mission to bring AED and cardiac arrest awareness and education to schools. You can read Brock’s full heartbreaking story and how it sparked a movement towards Heart Safe Schools…
We are so excited about this news. Any improvements to cancer care certainly deserves its place on our blog. Philips is such a great company with their technology in so many different fields it is amazing to see them really focusing areas as important to this. Advancements and focus like this reassures us that we…
You know on medical shows when they are frantically performing a last ditch effort of rigorous CPR before someone pulls them off and says ‘they are gone’. Maybe they have been wrong? Maybe they were not ‘gone’. Christine Newman saved after hours of CPR BC snowshoer was found unconscious after falling into a tree well…
Dallas Stars’ Rich Peverley, who has had preexisting heart problems, faced his worst nightmare on Monday when he went into Cardiac arrest during a game against the Columbus Blue Jackets. It was due to quick thinking and the use of a defibrillator that he will be able to live out his days with his wife…
Great news! Two lives were saved yesterday because of some quick thinking and the use of defibrillators – one was a Philips heartstart AED. This is just another example of why AED’s are so important in arenas and other sport centers. Luckily for Canada, Steven Harper has approved the integration of defibrillators into every arena…