”Heart Safe” communities – Why public AEDs are a good idea By Steven Poon, MD, and Jonathan Drezner, MD, Center for Sports Cardiology, University of Washington Recently, the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (FSEM), an organization that promotes the specialist field of Sports and Exercise Medicine in the U.K., released a position statement in favor of […]
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Automated External Defibrillators in Public Places: FSEM Position Statement
By Dr Zafar Iqbal & Prof John Somauroo @FSEM_UK Position statement Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is a major cause of death in developed Western countries with an estimated 60,000 cases annually in the UK. Every week in the UK 12 young people under 35 years of age die from SCA due to undiagnosed cardiac conditions. In addition, […]
FIFA increasing efforts in sport for health leadership – hats off to a role model federation
Budapest May 24th: FIFA provide a landmark in ‘implementation’ and ‘dissemination’ by including their 2nd Medical Congress within the ’62nd FIFA Congress’. This may not seem like a major deal for those unfamiliar with the way sporting federations work but it is right […]