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    • SIMON'S BEAT
    Thursday
    01.12.2012

    Screening Hearts for Cody Sherrell

    BOTHELL, Wash. — It is unthinkable that two seemingly healthy high school students would collapse and die from a heart attacks, yet that’s exactly what’s happened. In just the past month, two Washington teenagers died from sudden cardiac arrest. Cody Sherrell, a 14-year-old from La Center, collapsed at basketball practice and later died. And a month earlier,… See More

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    Saturday
    01.07.2012

    $60 Saved a Life – Just Ask Mom & Dad

    It was the best $60 that Scott and Sarah Lepke ever spent.   In November 2010, the Lepkes opted to pay the extra money for an optional athletic heart screening for their son, Matt. The ultrasound test, through Transmed Inc.’s Screening America program, was offered by the Beresford School District. The Lepkes’ decision was more… See More

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    Thursday
    01.05.2012

    Doctors Urge Heart Screenings for Kids

    The first sign anything was wrong with Cody Sherrell was his collapse on the La Center Middle School basketball court. Doctors say the 14-year-old had a heart attack that may have been caused by cardiac arrhythmia. He remained in critical condition at Randall Children Hospital at Legacy Emanuel Wednesday night, with doctors keeping him medicated… See More

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    Thursday
    01.05.2012

    Heart Screening Saves 13 Year Old’s Life

    It’s not just in Philadelphia that heart screenings are making a big difference in the lives of students.  Just ask Sam . . .  A Parkston teenager credits a heart screening for saving her life. While Sam Herrold didn’t have any symptoms of heart problems, the screening revealed a potential danger. Basketball is a big… See More

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    Wednesday
    01.04.2012

    Quinn Driscoll Foundation Screening Hearts

    Our friends, the Scott and Kelly Driscoll, are checking hearts and saving lives in Oregon! Scott Driscoll knows all too well what 14-year-old Cody Sherrell’s family is going through. Sherrell collapsed and went into cardiac arrest Tuesday afternoon while playing basketball at La Center Middle School. Scott and Kelly Driscoll’s son, 13-year-old Quinn Driscoll, died… See More

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    Monday
    12.05.2011

    Milestones and Tombstones – Downingtown Screening

    The road to Downingtown West High School goes through Frazier and right past Haym Solomon Memorial Park.  This is where Simon is buried.  This post is really about the success of our recent screening, but this screening revealed an ongoing struggle of mine – what is expected of me, the father of a deceased son…. See More

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    Monday
    11.14.2011

    WKRP in Cincinnati

    The only thing missing at our heart screening today was WKRP.  The four major networks were there.  One hundred students were there.  Most of the Sycamore water polo team was there.  About thirty professionals from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Suburban Pediatrics were there.   Jose’s mother, Luisa, was there.  All of the screenings are meaningful, but… See More

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    Friday
    10.14.2011

    Over Foundation Checks Hearts and Saves Lives

    Congrats to our friends in PA, Nick Over Foundation, for checking hearts and saving lives. Nicholas Ryan Over had seemed like a perfectly healthy 20-year-old.  ”He was like a lot of youths,” said his mother Cris Over. “On the outside he was fine. He was working part-time and going to college. He was living the… See More

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    Friday
    10.14.2011

    Paredes Foundation is Checking Hearts and Saving Lives

    Great piece about our friends on the West Coast saving lives in memory of their son, Eric. Eric Paredes’ story is not unlike Wes Leonard’s, the Fennville High basketball star who collapsed and died in Michigan last March of sudden cardiac arrest minutes after hitting the game-winning overtime shot. Paredes, like Leonard, was an otherwise… See More

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    Tuesday
    10.04.2011

    Study Proves Importance of ECG Screenings

    New population-based study published in HeartRhythm analyzes age-specific causes of sudden death in more than 2,600 victims WASHINGTON  — A new study proves the importance of electrocardiographic (ECG) screenings to identify heart abnormalities in young adults, including both athletes and non-athletes.  The study, published in the October edition of HeartRhythm, the official journal of the… See More

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