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Author Archives: Luitgard Holzleg
Time to Teach Doctors about Nutrition?
Excellent interview with well known and outspoken healthy lifestyle promoter, GP Dr. Rangan Chatterjee. With healthcare costs due to chronic disease such as heart disease or diabetes constantly increasing, it must be mandatory for every medical student and every doctor …
Heart Disease in Teenagers
The fact that our sedentary lifestyle is not a healthy lifestyle, is not new. The prolonged sitting we do as part of our modern lifestyle is related to an increased risk for heart disease, obesity or type II diabetes. A …
Mega Zumba Event
Everyone has heard about Zumba, a dance fitness programme combining hip-hop, salsa, samba, and other latin-american rhythms. We are very proud to sponsor this year’s MEGA Zumbathon®, an event that combines sport, nutrition and charity. Anyone interested in leaning more …
Setting a Good Example – Sports Clubs with AEDs
An old boys’ team is getting together on the football field, having a fabulous time. suddenly, one of them collapses. His mates realise, he is not responding and not breathing either, he is having a cardiac arrest. This scenario can …
Sudden Cardiac Death Among Student Athletes
Sudden cardiac arrest, or sudden cardiac death: we talk bout it in nearly every course, especially in sort related courses and courses for teachers: while it is luckily rare in young athletes, but when it happens, it’s often deadly. It …
Rio 2016: Tennis Physio Dies of Sudden Cardiac Arrest
French tennis physiotherapist Patrick Bordier died of sudden cardiac arrest during the Rio Olympics. And what is worse, German swimmer Sarah Köhler observed how one thing after another went wrong: the first aiders clearly didn’t know how to correctly resuscitate, …
Polio Alert
Are you planning to travel to India in the near future? Make sure you’ve updated your polio immunisation. Between January and spring 2014 alone, the World Health Organization WHO reported 74 new polio cases worldwide. Now, an active strain of …
CPR Training Required for High School Graduation
I “met” Lindsay Davis on Twitter when interacting with fellow medical professional discussing sudden cardiac arrest. Lindsay is a former Miss Ohio and was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at age 17 following several episodes of collapsing when training for what …
Women Less Likely to Receive CPR
We are involved in an interesting discussion on Twitter today and just have to share it. According to a study published by the European Society of Cardiology in March this year, women less likely to receive basic life support for …
Help for those Who Care for Someone with Dementia
When his mother was diagnosed with dementia ten years ago, James Ashwell learnt the hard way that caring for a loved one with this diagnose is challenging, both emotionally and from a safety perspective. By the time his mother passed …