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200 Young Athletes Scheduled For Free Cardiac Screening Provided By Saint Barnabas Health Care System Livingston, N.J.– Two hundred young athletes, ages 6 to 18 years, are registered for a free cardiac screeningto be held on Saturday, August 4 from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Saint Barnabas Ambulatory Care Center, 200 South Orange Avenue, Livingston. Ninety percent of sudden cardiac deaths in young athletes occur during or after athletic activities. Preliminary testing to detect these potentially fatal conditions can help prevent sudden cardiac arrest from occurring. New Jersey’s premier health care provider, Saint Barnabas Health Care System is taking a proactive role in identifying these problems in young players, through the Playing with Heart cardiac screening and education program for young athletes, their parents and coaches. Playing with Heart offers preliminary medical screenings, based on American Heart Association recommendations. The screening event, staffed by expert Saint Barnabas cardiac and sports medicine physicians, includes a physical examination, EKG testing and immediate results interpretation to players and their parents or guardians. If initial results identify a need for further testing, players will be referred back to their primary care provider for a referral to an appropriate specialist. At the consent of the player and his/her parents, the results will be faxed to the primary care provider. The program also provides free information sessions to parents, coaches and youth athletic directors to discuss warning signs, symptoms and ways to help prevent sudden cardiac death in youth sports. At each session attendees will receive important information along with health history forms to complete prior to the program’s cardiac screening and evaluation. The Saint Barnabas Health Care System is New Jersey's largest integrated health care delivery system. The System includes more than 22,000 employees (second largest private employer in the state), 4,750 physicians (one-fourth of the state's practicing physicians) and 443 residents who provide treatment and services for more than two million patients annually: 225,000 inpatients and same day surgery patients, 450,000 Emergency Department patients and over 1.5 million outpatients, and 17,500 births. Date: August 1, 2007 CONTACT: Caren Malone, Public Relations Department,
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