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One potent cardiovascular disease treatment that deserves to take the spotlight is cardiac rehabilitation. The heart, once damaged, should always be treated with extreme care and sensitivity, after all. However, this doesn’t mean that it won’t be able to recover from even the most serious cases of heart complications. It’s not impossible to mend a damaged heart as long as …

Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) can happen at any time without warning.  Without any sort of outside intervention, the survival rate of SCA is close to zero.  Applying CPR improves those odds, but not by a whole lot. Simply put, the sooner an AED is used on a sudden cardiac arrest victim, the better their chance of survival. Trouble is, the …