he s also director of the cardiac lab at george washington university hospital. dr. reiner, good to have you on. how prevalent is cardiac arrest and young athletes? it s very rare, actually. all told in the united states, every year, there are probably only between 2000 and 5000 cardiac arrests for people between the age of 25. and we see this competitive athletes, about 100 to 150 young competitive athletes who will die during competition every year. and while at that number seems relatively low, that is one athlete dying every year, every 2 to 3 days. we see this, and even though it is rare, these are young people. so, every one of these offenses is a catastrophe. that number seems really high to me. just so people know, what is the difference between a cardiac arrest and a heart attack? right. so, a heart attack is basically an injury to a heart missile
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here s what you can do if you are a patient. if you are here at university hospital, a major study tries to get there. don t tell the ambulance driver. they know what they are doing. the ambulance drivers know what they are doing. if you get to a major medical center, it s going to help you. the other point is hospitals are starting to gear up for this. they know about this. the cardiac lab knows about this and they are on call. having a relationship with your doctor is tremendous. you have to know your doctor. people call me and hopefully, make sure people are standing in the emergency room so when i get there, i don t have to sit around for three hours. we will leave a message and they never call back. everyone practices medicine in different ways. a lot of people have cell phones and e-mails. for the hospital, this study is
medical center, director of their cardiac lab. dr. schwartz described this evening repetitive symptoms at rest as being what initiated the contact for president clinton to his doctor. what does he really mean? well, rachel, the heart is supplied by a number of coronary arteries, three arteries, and as you know, six years ago the president had blockages in those arteries and therefore bypass grafts were put onto his heart. when there s an imbalance between the need for blood from the heart and the supply of blood, you get a feeling of like a cramp in the heart. exactly what the president was describing. a sense of discomfort. a sense of tightness. a sense of pressure. so it s just as he developed, as this graft closed and he became dependent again on the clogged up artery, his heart was not getting enough blood with even minimal exercise. how major a procedure was