Stories from the heart
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PrintI would like to introduce you to Mary Jo Gordon. She is a woman. She is an educated, professional woman, who works for the Cardiac Arrythmias Research and Education Foundation (C.A.R.E.). She also has heart disease. Listen to her story....
Dave Parmentier is a Green Bay Fire Fighter and a former paramedic. He also has a story to tell. A family story. His younger sister died of heart disease and he doesn't want this disease to devastate another family, like it has his. Watch...
Dr. Paul Casey, the Medical Director of the Emergency Department at Bellin Health, has 9 steps that everyone should take when having a heart attack. These can be found by clicking on the link in the right hand column: Bellinheart.org. Briefly, the 9 steps are:
1. Know the symptoms
2. Call 911
3. Take an aspirin
4. Don't self diagnose
5. Don't take someone else's medications
6. Bring current medications
7. Bring a recent EKG
8. Know your hospital preference
9. Know your hospital preference, but rely on EMS
