Narrated Slide Shows:
Prevention of Heat Stroke Lecture
Non Operative Treatment of Arthritis:
Total Knee Replacement
Osteoporosis
Hip Fracture
Blood Clot - DVT/PE
MRSA prevention lecture
New York Times Health Guide
Fox News
CNN
Reuters
http://www.worldhealthnews.harvard.edu/
http://www.webmd.com/news/default.htm
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032076/
http://www.healthnews.com/
http://news.yahoo.com/i/751
http://health.yahoo.com/news/
http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/
Cardiac abnormality is the most common cause of sudden death in competitive
young athletes. The purpose of preparticipation cardiac screening is to reduce
this risk through early detection of clinically relevant or pre-existing cardiac
abnormalities.
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM)
- may result in deadly conduction abnormalities
- causes about 30% of sudden-death cases occurring in young athletes;
- dectection of heart murmur: your MD should listen for murmurs in the supine and standing
positions to identify murmurs from dynamic left ventricular outflow obstruction (standing
intensifies a HCM murmur by decreasing cardiac venous return);
Long QT Syndrome: (genetic arrhythmia syndrome)
- characterized by abnormal QT interval on EKG, and can lead to V fib and death;
- manifests as palpitations (skipped heart beats), presyncope, syncope, and cardiac arrest
Questions: that every parent should consider
- Is there any ? syncope (fainting with exertion) , chest pain, shortness of breath with exercise,
elevated blood pressure, heart murmur, family history or severe early heart disease
- Does your son or daughter need sitting blood pressure measure checks (yes) and an EKG (maybe)?
Outside Links:
- Sports Medicine Update (2002)
- The Preparticipation Athletic Evaluation
- CPR And External Defibrillator Training May Decrease Adolescent Sports-related Deaths
- Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics - Narrated Slide Shows
Prevention of Heat Stroke Lecture
Non Operative Treatment of Arthritis:
Total Knee Replacement
Osteoporosis
Hip Fracture
Blood Clot - DVT/PE
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