ECG screening for SCD in young adults: community volunteers can acquire higher quality ECGs than health professionals.

Background And Purpose: ECG screening of young athletes for risk of sudden cardiac death has grown in popularity throughout the world. The purpose of this study is to assess the technical error rate of ECGs acquired by appropriately trained community volunteers compared to that reported in the literature utilizing trained medical personnel.

Methods: This is a retrospective study analyzing consecutive ECGs acquired during 5 successive high school screenings at 3 separate schools in 2011.

Changing attitudes about self-injury prevention management: lessons learned.

In the behavioral health environment, nurses often use continuous staff monitoring and, at times, physical restraints, to manage the severity of patients' self-injury. Both options put staff in control, are the most restrictive in nature, and can be financially draining on the hospital's budget. This can result in negative reactions by both patients and staff.

Feasibility and findings of large-scale electrocardiographic screening in young adults: data from 32,561 subjects.

Background: Large-scale electrocardiographic (ECG) screening of young athletes has been shown to reduce the incidence of sudden cardiac death in Italy. Debate exists regarding the feasibility and benefits of such a program in the United States.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to describe implementation and results of a large-scale high school ECG screening program (Young Hearts for Life [YH4L]) developed in the Chicago area.