A five-year-old witnessed his mom collapse in their home with his baby brother looking on in rural Minnesota. Doctors believe a genetic cardiac abnormality to be responsible…read more.
Archive: December, 2016
Pitman basketball player recovering following near fatal incident
Pitman basketball player Jake Zylstra had a life-changing first practice of the 2016-17 season. During the Pitman Pride’s first official practice back on Nov. 7, Zylstra went into cardiac arrest. Head coach Harvey Marable and his wife, Judy, kept the young athlete alive by performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation until emergency crews arrived. Read more…
Teen who survived cardiac arrest reunited with medics who saved him
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Mecklenburg Emergency Medical Services Agency helped save a 17-year-old’s life and was recently reunited with the teen, Jalen Hart, who went into cardiac arrest in March. Read more…
How Tucson Roadrunner Craig Cunningham was saved from sudden death
“The only thing I remember from being sick was that fire alarm right there,” says the 26-year-old Tucson Roadrunners team captain, hooked to a heart monitor, wires tangled in every direction. “I thought it was a spaceship or something.” Read more…
Ronald McDonald house treats girl with heart condition
A 7-years-old, Lucia Halstrom went into cardiac arrest. While from Maple Grove, her family needed to be at the hospital 24/7. Lucia’s mom, Amy, said the Ronald McDonald House apartment helped make the hospital home and warm during her recovery. Read more…
Team effort, AED saves teen in cardiac arrest
A coach, off-duty firefighter and two police officers teamed up to save a teen whose heart wasn’t beating the way it should. It was Friday, Dec. 9 during a high school basketball practice at a middle school in St. Louis, Michigan when something didn’t seem right with Maverick Giles. Read more…
Colts Cheerleader Beats LongQT
Kuyhlia grew up in Batesville, Indiana. She started dancing at a studio in Greensburg when she was three years old. And while she loved to dance, she was also a jock. But in middle school, she was forced to give much of that up. “It was the sports physical for basketball that I found out […]
Young heart patient is on superhero mission
Paige Sullivan, 9, makes capes at her home in Chapel Hill on Saturday, December 17, 2016. The capes will be delivered to child patients at Duke University Hospital on Tuesday. Sullivan was born with a congenital heart defect and had it repaired at Duke over the summer. Her family and doctors kept calling her a […]