Dear Community Partners,
We could not have offered the FREE Youth and Young Adult Heart Screening without your support! We had 80 volunteers from across the Bay Area provide critical screening services for over 181 youth and young adults. All who joined us were pleased, impressed and thankful.
3 LIVES SAVED
With your help, we found 3 individuals out of 181 screened who have potentially serious heart defects that put them at risk – hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Wolff-Parkinson White Syndrome (WHW) and Left Ventricular Failure. That means this single heart screening caught nearly 5x the rate of heart defects per youth screened than the current statistical average. These individuals were referred for follow up with specialists to treat and meet each of their individual needs.
An additional 32 non-urgent issues were identified, such as high blood pressure and asthma. Those individuals were instructed to contact their primary care physician.
Cardiac arrest is the leading killer of high school athletes and the number one cause of death on a school campus. By identifying potential heart issues before they lead to cardiac arrest, we are helping to save lives.
HealthQuest, a service of the Petaluma Health Care District, is an AHA and Medic First Aid Training center. We offer CPR/AED training and AED sales and maintenance programs. Petaluma is a designated HeartSafe Community. We welcome the opportunity to expand our work with neighboring cities to help businesses, schools and communities become HeartSafe. If you are interested in learning more about bringing CPR classes to an organization or school near you or becoming a designated HeartSafe business, please reach out to Healthquest CPR Program Manager Tami Bender at (707)-766-9226 or at [email protected].
Thank you all for the valuable part you played in making this life-saving event possible.
We could not have offered the FREE Youth and Young Adult Heart Screening without your support! We had 80 volunteers from across the Bay Area provide critical screening services for over 181 youth and young adults. All who joined us were pleased, impressed and thankful.
3 LIVES SAVED
With your help, we found 3 individuals out of 181 screened who have potentially serious heart defects that put them at risk – hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Wolff-Parkinson White Syndrome (WHW) and Left Ventricular Failure. That means this single heart screening caught nearly 5x the rate of heart defects per youth screened than the current statistical average. These individuals were referred for follow up with specialists to treat and meet each of their individual needs.
An additional 32 non-urgent issues were identified, such as high blood pressure and asthma. Those individuals were instructed to contact their primary care physician.
Cardiac arrest is the leading killer of high school athletes and the number one cause of death on a school campus. By identifying potential heart issues before they lead to cardiac arrest, we are helping to save lives.
HealthQuest, a service of the Petaluma Health Care District, is an AHA and Medic First Aid Training center. We offer CPR/AED training and AED sales and maintenance programs. Petaluma is a designated HeartSafe Community. We welcome the opportunity to expand our work with neighboring cities to help businesses, schools and communities become HeartSafe. If you are interested in learning more about bringing CPR classes to an organization or school near you or becoming a designated HeartSafe business, please reach out to Healthquest CPR Program Manager Tami Bender at (707)-766-9226 or at [email protected].
Thank you all for the valuable part you played in making this life-saving event possible.
