Each year more than 7,000 children and adolescents in the United States die from Sudden Cardiac Arrest. In fact, 4 out of 5 victims of Sudden Cardiac Arrest appeared healthy and had no symptoms prior to death. Without symptoms, an EKG (electrocardiogram) based heart screening is the best way to detect the potential life threatening condition. The SafeBeat Initiative is a national program launched by the CAS Foundation and establishes local Heart Screening and Emergency Action Planning programs in an effort to prevent sudden death in youth and adolescents from Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA).

For more information go to www.safebeat.org

About All Children’s Hospital

Children are the sole focus of All Children’s Hospital's million-square-foot St. Petersburg FL campus devoted to pediatric specialty care. The ten-story All Children’s Hospital and its adjacent Outpatient Care Center replaced an existing 42-year old facility just two blocks away.

All Children's Hospital is the only hospital on Florida’s West Coast totally devoted to children’s care - a leader in pediatric treatment, education, research and advocacy. As a regional referral center for children with some of the most challenging medical problems, All Children’s draws patients from throughout Florida, all 50 states and 36 foreign countries. The mission of this private, not-for-profit hospital is rooted in its beginnings in 1926 as Florida’s first Crippled Children’s Hospital for polio victims. All Children’s understands that it’s not enough to treat disease -- that true progress comes from teaching and research to cure disease. All Children’s shares its pediatric expertise through research & education affiliations with the University of South Florida (USF Health) as well as the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute.

www.allkids.org