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When an engineer at a semiconductor factory in Watertown, Mass., collapsed from sudden cardiac arrest, David Collins, the plant's health-and-safety manager, was on the scene in two minutes with an automated external defibrillator (AED), a device that can jolt a heart back to its normal rhythm. precious minutes before paramedics could arrive, Collins followed prompts from the AED and gave the engineer two electric pulses that saved his life...
...almost anyone. The devices have spread to all sorts of public places, and their U.S. sales, already worth $200 million, are growing at about 30% a year. The engineer probably didn't much care that the AED used on him was made by a little company now called Cardiac Science. But the firm has its own back-from-the-dead story to tell...
Based in Irvine, Calif., Cardiac Science was teetering on the edge of oblivion in 1996 and had no sales--none--as recently as 1998. At that time it was trying to sell a different type of defibrillator to hospitals and was getting crushed by medical-equipment giants like Medtronic Physio-Control and Philips Medical Systems. But then it abruptly changed its game--and its fortunes...
...taken to the hospital. My father died of heart failure at 59, and my mother had heart surgery in her 60s. It should not have taken so long for someone to figure out that I had a problem with my heart. Thank God, I finally found a great cardiac specialist. But all too often women with heart problems receive an incorrect diagnosis. LAURA CUPO West Haven, Conn...
...realize that heart disease and cancer are competing for the same research dollars, but don't blame breast-cancer-awareness programs for taking women's minds off our cardiac health. If we fear breast cancer more than heart disease, perhaps it is because breast cancer is more likely to strike us in our 30s and 40s, when our careers are in full bloom and we may still have young children. Perhaps it is because breast cancer can be disfiguring, damaging our self-esteem and interfering with our most intimate relationships. Certainly, women are concerned about heart disease, but they...