National CPR week

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National CPR week

• American Red Cross: National CPR and AED Awareness Week is June 1-7 and spotlights how lives can be saved if more Americans know CPR and how to use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
• American Heart Association: Two steps to staying alive
• Sudden cardiac death of the young: surveillance and prevention project, Michigan Department of Community Health
• Screening NCAA athletes for sudden cardiac death risk? Science Daily, Apr 19
• Too young to die - An update on the impact of sudden cardiac death of the young in Michigan 1999 - 2011  [PDF 827.69 KB]
• CDC blog post: Can sudden cardiac death of the young be prevented?
• HuGE Navigator: 101 genes have been reported with risk of sudden cardiac death including 5 genomewide association studies. The most common reported genes are SCN5, KCNH2 and KCNQ1.