Student-athletes are twice as likely as non-athletes to suffer from cardiac arrest, according to local doctors. The recent case of LeBron James' son, Bronny, who suffered sudden cardiac arrest during ...
Samuel is a fourth-grader who plays soccer. On the day we met, he was lying on an examination table at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital with a mass of wires connected to his body. "It's measuring your ...
FAIRFAX, Va. (WUSA9) -- You don't think you have to worry about your teenager having a heart attack. But, the leading cause of death for young athletes is sudden cardiac arrest. A Clifton, Va. family ...
Edwin Jacob plays football and basketball atFranklin High School. Herecently came to a youth heart screening event organized by the Nick of Time Foundation at his school. Just relax totally, and take ...
One year ago, 15-year-old Elijah-Jay Mariano Rivera tragically passed away after going into sudden cardiac arrest at football practice. “When I found out this is what happened with Eli, I was confused ...
BOSTON, MA — A new study has shed light on which low-risk patients who have inconclusive exercise ECG tests might safely avoid additional downstream imaging tests to detect potential CAD [1]. Patients ...
The debate over testing for the most common medical cause of death among NCAA athletes boils over. It was 1990 when 23-year-old Loyola Marymount basketball player Hank Gathers collapsed during a game ...
ECG and EKG are different abbreviations for the same test, called an electrocardiogram. This test measures how electricity is functioning in a person’s heart. People may also refer to it as an ...