SaveHeart Stories
de Dave Fritzsche
Fundraising to Save Lives: A Conversation with Jonathan Goldman
À propos de ce podcast
Real Life stories of lives saved, lost, and changed saved due to Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA)- the largest cause of natural death in the United States. The SaveHeart Stories podcast sheds light on how to drastically improve SCA survival rates by placing Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) everywhere people live, work, and play, training more people in basic CPR & AED use, and promoting youth heart screenings to uncover potential heart defects in teenagers.
Every year in the U.S., out-of-hospital SCA claims the lives of 356,000 people, including more than 23,000 teenagers. SCA strikes without warning and affects people from every walk of life, regardless of age, race, gender, ethnicity, or even health profile. While Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) is essential to help blood flow to vital organs after an SCA event, the only real cure for SCA is an electrical shock from an AED, which the American Heart Association recommends should happen within 3 minutes. Sadly, today, less than 10% of SCA victims survive, largely because AEDs aren’t located close enough to where people are.
There is an increasing number of stories in the media about how having an AED saved a precious life, or worse, how not having an AED nearby resulted in a tragic and unnecessary death. SaveHeart Stories should inspire us to do something about it now- individually, and together- so that our stories can change from sadness to celebration- and from tragedy to triumph.
SaveHeart Stories is brought to you by your host, Dave Fritzsche, AED industry veteran and founder of SaveHeart by HeartNation. Proudly ‘Made in the USA,’ SaveHeart’s highly visible, alarmed, lighted, temperature-controlled and 24x7 monitored outdoor cabinets provide immediate visibility & access to lifesaving AEDs, Stop the Bleed Kits, Narcan, and other emergency supplies. They are ideal for parks, athletic fields & courts, trails, schools & universities, business districts, marinas, beaches, and any outdoor locations where people congregate.
To learn more about how Outdoor AEDs can keep your community safer, call 312-953-6928 or email [email protected].
Épisodes
- Fundraising to Save Lives: A Conversation with Jonathan Goldman · 32 min · Épisode 12Schools know they need better AED coverage, especially across athletic fields and outdoor facilities. The challenge is often not convincing people that AEDs matter. It’s finding…
- Mobilizing a Movement for AED Awareness: When SCA Inspires a Community to Change · 32 min · Épisode 11One minute you’re doing what you’ve always done, feeling strong, staying active, living your routine. The next, everything changes. When Sudden Cardiac Arrest strikes, strength…
- Encouraging the Lifesaver in You: A Conversation with Stephanie Kornet · 19 min · Épisode 10No matter how hard it is, no matter how much it hurts, life goes on for those who must. Every family handles tragic loss differently. Some focus on the loss, and that is…
- Attacking SCA from All Angles: A Conversation with Tormod Larsen · 30 min · Épisode 9Important work often grows quietly, through steady commitment, difficult decisions, and people who choose to turn loss into something that protects others. Across schools…
- Preventing Preventable Death: A Conversation with George Laman · 24 min · Épisode 8Losing a child is every parent’s worst nightmare. The grief is crushing, the questions are endless, and the road ahead feels impossible to walk. Yet even in the darkest places…
- One Shot to Save a Life: A conversation with Matt Mangine · 20 min · Épisode 7When our loved ones go off to school, or to work, or to practice and play, we always expect to see them again. But Sudden Cardiac Arrest is a silent killer, and it strikes at…
- In Business to Save Lives: A Conversation with LifeSavers Inc’s Bob Stickel · 22 min · Épisode 6When it’s your job to save lives, you’d better be good at it. You need heart and passion, yes. But you also need a good business sense, excellent people skills and the ability to…
- Raising Awareness and Saving Lives: An Interview with Chip Georges · 29 min · Épisode 5AED's save lives, it's a proven fact. But when they aren't available, or are within reach behind locked doors or inside after hours, they can't do their jobs. Awareness of the…
- "The First Sign of Trouble was Death”: An Interview with MCORE Foundation’s Lisa Tennenbaum · 33 min · Épisode 4Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) claims almost 400,000 lives a year, and is the number one natural cause of death in this country. Heart screening can detect unknown abnormalities in…
- “Mom am I going to die?”: An Interview with Jenny Young · 29 min · Épisode 3In this episode of Save Heart Stories, host Dave Fritzsche, founder of SaveHeart by Heart Nation speaks with Jenny Young, founder of She Did It Videography, about her journey to…
- Unsung Community Heroes: An interview with Kevin Knussman · 36 min · Épisode 2In this episode of SaveHeart Stories, host Dave Fritzsche, founder of SaveHeart by Heart Nation, speaks with Kevin Knussman, a veteran in emergency medical services and founder…
- A Survivors Journey: An Interview with Dale Wakasugi · 29 min · Épisode 1Welcome to the SaveHeart Stories podcast. This is our first episode of many to come, featuring real life stories of lives changed by Sudden Cardiac Arrest and the availability of…
