LIVINGSTON, NJ - July 2007 -
Saturday, August 4, 2007 from
1 to 5 pm
Saint Barnabas Ambulatory Care Center, 200 South
Orange Avenue, Livingston Athletes, ages 6 to 18
are welcome to attend. Registration for
this event is required. For more information
or to register for this FREE event, please call 1.888.SBHS.123
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. Each 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 their 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.
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