St. Jude Medical has a site with lots of information and resources about SCA and that stands for Sudden Cardiac Arrest. There’s also a risk factor assessment that you can print and fill out from St Jude Medical and you can take it with you on your next visit to your doctor so you can discuss it together. I think you’ll find this very interesting, I know I did.

I was reading about all the risk factors because heart attacks run in my family and with SCA even with no risk factors it could happen in a second and if not treated within 4-6 minutes it could be fatal, now that’s scary. I was amazed that it actually kills 325,000 people a year. On the video it shows a graph and this was higher than cancer and Alzheimer.

This site has 2 videos that will show you how the heart actually works and the doctor explains everything as you watch the heart and it’s easy to understand the way it’s explained, the other one explains about sudden cardiac arrest and I think everyone should watch them to learn more about treatment and therapy.

I have never known anyone that had to have an ICD implant. ICD stands for Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator and it is put under the skin and a lead goes through a vein into the heart, you’ll have to read it for yourself because I’m not good at explaining technical stuff.

I would imagine it’s along the lines of a pace maker, but I have never really read much about those either. They use these implants to treat in their words, dangerously fast heart rates. You’ll want to learn more about this.