{"id":2092,"date":"2011-11-17T20:23:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T19:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2011-11-18T04:51:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T03:51:48","slug":"research-into-action-aed-installed-3-months-ago-saves-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2011\/11\/17\/research-into-action-aed-installed-3-months-ago-saves-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Research into action &#8211; AED installed 3 months ago saves life!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Guest Blog by Jon Drezner &#8211; Sports Cardiology Senior Associate Editor<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"michael jordon\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2011\/11\/michael-jordon1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"298\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I heard some amazing news today and still gathering the details. \u00a0Last night at [anonymized] Middle School a 45 yo\u00a0[anonymized] suffered sudden cardiac arrest during a basketball game. \u00a0Witnesses pulled the AED off the wall, delivered two shocks before EMS arrived, and the patient is alive and doing well today!<\/p>\n<p>It is less than 3 months since the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heartofseattleschools.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heart of Seattle Schools project <\/a>installed 136 AEDs into Seattle Public Schools, with at least one in every school. \u00a0This was our AED and administered by a school staff member for a member of our community&#8230; just how public access defibrillation programs are supposed to work.<\/p>\n<p>From the beginning, University of Washington Medicine has played a major role in the success of this project and the safety of our community. \u00a0To think the benefit of this program has been realized so quickly!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/45\/12\/947.extract\" target=\"_blank\">Drezner, J, Harmon, K, and Borjesson, M. 2011.<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/45\/12\/947.extract\" target=\"_blank\"> Incidence of sudden cardiac death in athletes: where did the science go? <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/45\/12\/947.extract\" target=\"_blank\">BJSM, 45: 947-948<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/45\/12\/947.extract\" target=\"_blank\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/43\/9.toc\" target=\"_blank\">September 2009 BJSM \u2013 deals specifically with cardiac issues and the athlete<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blogs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link: Authoritative resource for sudden cardiac death \u2013 finally! Guest blog by Jon Drezner\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2011\/09\/09\/wealthy-resource-for-sudden-cardiac-death-guest-blog-by-jon-drezner\/\">Authoritative resource for sudden cardiac death \u2013 finally! Guest blog by Jon Drezner<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2011\/08\/22\/new-guidelines-to-improve-ecg-interpretation-in-athlete\/\">New Guidelines to Improve ECG\/EKG Interpretation in Athletes \u2013 Guest Blog by Dr Babette Pluim<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2011\/08\/12\/guest-blog-sports-cardiology-by-dr-jon-drezner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Cardiology by Dr Jon Drezner<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2011\/06\/23\/guest-blog-debating-strategies-to-reduce-sudden-cardiac-death-in-athletes-dr-drezner-responds-to-sports-cardiology-editorial\/\" target=\"_blank\">Debating Strategies to Reduce Sudden Cardiac Death in Athletes: Dr. Drezner Responds to Sports Cardiology Editorial<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Dr. Jonathan Drezner is an\u00a0Associate Professor of the Department of Family Medicine,\u00a0Associate Director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship , and Team Physician for the Seattle Seahawks &amp; UW Huskies.<\/em><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Blog by Jon Drezner &#8211; Sports Cardiology Senior Associate Editor I heard some amazing news today and still gathering the details. \u00a0Last night at [anonymized] Middle School a 45 yo\u00a0[anonymized] suffered sudden cardiac arrest during a basketball game. \u00a0Witnesses pulled the AED off the wall, delivered two shocks before EMS arrived, and the patient [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2011\/11\/17\/research-into-action-aed-installed-3-months-ago-saves-life\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2473,200],"tags":[2673,2496,2474],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-sports-cardiology","category-young-athletes","tag-aed","tag-drezner","tag-scd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}