Volunteers help children learn CPR during the Buffalo Bills’ training camp in Rochester, New York, in August 2023. (Photo courtesy of Alik Matthews) Lea en español To some people, sixth grade might seem a little young to be taking responsibility for saving lives. Riley Clower and her classmates in Laramie, Wyoming, would disagree. Last fall,…
(Douglas Sacha/Moment via Getty Images) People whose hearts suddenly stop due to a drug overdose are younger, have fewer health problems and are more likely to survive with fewer neurological problems than those whose out-of-hospital cardiac arrests are due to other causes, new research shows. The study, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American…
David Lyons (right) met Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin at a CPR training event held by the team and the American Heart Association. (Photo courtesy of Russ Lyons) Whenever Quentin Tomlin heads out to play high school football, his mother, Laura, knows one thing is for sure: The team won’t take the field without access…
Less than two weeks before her accident, Abbie Vara rode a swing in the vines of a banyan tree on a Waikiki beach, proudly wearing a favorite new dress. (Photo courtesy of the Vara family) For almost 19 years, whenever Tiffany Vara described the worst day of her life, she always included a particular word:…
(Cavan Images via Getty Images) Lea en español Saving lives after an opioid overdose isn’t just the job of emergency department workers, according to guidelines on how to treat heart-stopping poisonings. Opioids are just one of the substances addressed in the updated American Heart Association guidelines. But the threat posed by overdoses from such drugs,…
(PlatooStudio/iStock via Getty Images) Asian adults in the U.S. are less likely to survive a cardiac arrest outside a hospital than their white peers, even though they are just as likely to receive CPR from a bystander, new research finds. The study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association. “We were surprised…
Los Angeles Rams defensive coordinator Raheem Morris (right) with Wyatt Stanley, the 3-year-old Morris helped save from drowning. (Photo courtesy of Nicole Morris) Raheem Morris left it up to his 13-year-old daughter Amaya: Should they go to the pool? Or hit the arcade? It was Memorial Day weekend and Morris, the defensive coordinator for the…
Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin during a preseason game in Orchard Park, New York, in August 2022. He said Tuesday that commotio cordis caused his collapse during a game in January. (Timothy T Ludwig/Getty Images Sport via Getty Images) Damar Hamlin has confirmed the cause of his near-fatal collapse on “Monday Night Football” as commotio…
Cardiac arrest survivor Damar Hamlin. (Photo courtesy of Jaster Athletes/Shane McFarland) As you followed the story of Damar Hamlin’s heart stopping during an NFL game, the questions surely ran through your mind. What if I saw someone in cardiac arrest? Would I know what to do? What if my heart stopped? Would anyone around me…
(Pixel_away/iStock via Getty Images) Lea en español Dr. Anezi Uzendu should not be here to explain what a cardiac arrest looks like. He’s alive only because strangers at a gym understood – and acted. In 2016, Uzendu, then a 25-year-old medical resident, was playing a pickup basketball game at a gym in Birmingham, Alabama. He…