Accessibility Statement Skip Navigation
  • Why PRWeb
  • How It Works
  • Who Uses It
  • Pricing
  • Login
  • GDPR
  • Create a Free Account
Return to PRWeb homepage
  • News
  • Resources
  • Contact
When typing in this field, a list of search results will appear and be automatically updated as you type.

Searching for your content...

No results found. Please change your search terms and try again.
  • News in Focus
      • Browse News Releases

      • All News Releases
      • Multimedia Gallery

      • All Multimedia
      • All Photos
      • All Videos
  • Business & Money
      • Auto & Transportation

      • Aerospace, Defense
      • Air Freight
      • Airlines & Aviation
      • Automotive
      • Maritime & Shipbuilding
      • Railroads and Intermodal Transportation
      • Supply Chain/Logistics
      • Transportation, Trucking & Railroad
      • Travel
      • Trucking and Road Transportation
      • View All Auto & Transportation

      • Business Technology

      • Blockchain
      • Broadcast Tech
      • Computer & Electronics
      • Computer Hardware
      • Computer Software
      • Data Analytics
      • Electronic Commerce
      • Electronic Components
      • Electronic Design Automation
      • Financial Technology
      • High Tech Security
      • Internet Technology
      • Nanotechnology
      • Networks
      • Peripherals
      • Semiconductors
      • View All Business Technology

      • Entertain­ment & Media

      • Advertising
      • Art
      • Books
      • Entertainment
      • Film and Motion Picture
      • Magazines
      • Music
      • Publishing & Information Services
      • Radio & Podcast
      • Television
      • View All Entertain­ment & Media

      • Financial Services & Investing

      • Accounting News & Issues
      • Acquisitions, Mergers and Takeovers
      • Banking & Financial Services
      • Bankruptcy
      • Bond & Stock Ratings
      • Conference Call Announcements
      • Contracts
      • Cryptocurrency
      • Dividends
      • Earnings
      • Earnings Forecasts & Projections
      • Financing Agreements
      • Insurance
      • Investments Opinions
      • Joint Ventures
      • Mutual Funds
      • Private Placement
      • Real Estate
      • Restructuring & Recapitalization
      • Sales Reports
      • Shareholder Activism
      • Shareholder Meetings
      • Stock Offering
      • Stock Split
      • Venture Capital
      • View All Financial Services & Investing

      • General Business

      • Awards
      • Commercial Real Estate
      • Corporate Expansion
      • Earnings
      • Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
      • Human Resource & Workforce Management
      • Licensing
      • New Products & Services
      • Obituaries
      • Outsourcing Businesses
      • Overseas Real Estate (non-US)
      • Personnel Announcements
      • Real Estate Transactions
      • Residential Real Estate
      • Small Business Services
      • Socially Responsible Investing
      • Surveys, Polls and Research
      • Trade Show News
      • View All General Business

  • Science & Tech
      • Consumer Technology

      • Artificial Intelligence
      • Blockchain
      • Cloud Computing/Internet of Things
      • Computer Electronics
      • Computer Hardware
      • Computer Software
      • Consumer Electronics
      • Cryptocurrency
      • Data Analytics
      • Electronic Commerce
      • Electronic Gaming
      • Financial Technology
      • Mobile Entertainment
      • Multimedia & Internet
      • Peripherals
      • Social Media
      • STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math)
      • Supply Chain/Logistics
      • Wireless Communications
      • View All Consumer Technology

      • Energy & Natural Resources

      • Alternative Energies
      • Chemical
      • Electrical Utilities
      • Gas
      • General Manufacturing
      • Mining
      • Mining & Metals
      • Oil & Energy
      • Oil and Gas Discoveries
      • Utilities
      • Water Utilities
      • View All Energy & Natural Resources

      • Environ­ment

      • Conservation & Recycling
      • Environmental Issues
      • Environmental Policy
      • Environmental Products & Services
      • Green Technology
      • Natural Disasters
      • View All Environ­ment

      • Heavy Industry & Manufacturing

      • Aerospace & Defense
      • Agriculture
      • Chemical
      • Construction & Building
      • General Manufacturing
      • HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning)
      • Machinery
      • Machine Tools, Metalworking and Metallurgy
      • Mining
      • Mining & Metals
      • Paper, Forest Products & Containers
      • Precious Metals
      • Textiles
      • Tobacco
      • View All Heavy Industry & Manufacturing

      • Telecomm­unications

      • Carriers and Services
      • Mobile Entertainment
      • Networks
      • Peripherals
      • Telecommunications Equipment
      • Telecommunications Industry
      • VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
      • Wireless Communications
      • View All Telecomm­unications

  • Lifestyle & Health
      • Consumer Products & Retail

      • Animals & Pets
      • Beers, Wines and Spirits
      • Beverages
      • Bridal Services
      • Cannabis
      • Cosmetics and Personal Care
      • Fashion
      • Food & Beverages
      • Furniture and Furnishings
      • Home Improvement
      • Household, Consumer & Cosmetics
      • Household Products
      • Jewelry
      • Non-Alcoholic Beverages
      • Office Products
      • Organic Food
      • Product Recalls
      • Restaurants
      • Retail
      • Supermarkets
      • Toys
      • View All Consumer Products & Retail

      • Entertain­ment & Media

      • Advertising
      • Art
      • Books
      • Entertainment
      • Film and Motion Picture
      • Magazines
      • Music
      • Publishing & Information Services
      • Radio & Podcast
      • Television
      • View All Entertain­ment & Media

      • Health

      • Biometrics
      • Biotechnology
      • Clinical Trials & Medical Discoveries
      • Dentistry
      • FDA Approval
      • Fitness/Wellness
      • Health Care & Hospitals
      • Health Insurance
      • Infection Control
      • International Medical Approval
      • Medical Equipment
      • Medical Pharmaceuticals
      • Mental Health
      • Pharmaceuticals
      • Supplementary Medicine
      • View All Health

      • Sports

      • General Sports
      • Outdoors, Camping & Hiking
      • Sporting Events
      • Sports Equipment & Accessories
      • View All Sports

      • Travel

      • Amusement Parks and Tourist Attractions
      • Gambling & Casinos
      • Hotels and Resorts
      • Leisure & Tourism
      • Outdoors, Camping & Hiking
      • Passenger Aviation
      • Travel Industry
      • View All Travel

  • Policy & Public Interest
      • Policy & Public Interest

      • Advocacy Group Opinion
      • Animal Welfare
      • Congressional & Presidential Campaigns
      • Corporate Social Responsibility
      • Domestic Policy
      • Economic News, Trends, Analysis
      • Education
      • Environmental
      • European Government
      • FDA Approval
      • Federal and State Legislation
      • Federal Executive Branch & Agency
      • Foreign Policy & International Affairs
      • Homeland Security
      • Labor & Union
      • Legal Issues
      • Natural Disasters
      • Not For Profit
      • Patent Law
      • Public Safety
      • Trade Policy
      • U.S. State Policy
      • View All Policy & Public Interest

  • People & Culture
      • People & Culture

      • Aboriginal, First Nations & Native American
      • African American
      • Asian American
      • Children
      • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
      • Hispanic
      • Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual
      • Men's Interest
      • People with Disabilities
      • Religion
      • Senior Citizens
      • Veterans
      • Women
      • View All People & Culture

  • Hamburger menu
  • Cision PRWeb provides efficient communication tools to continuously engage with target audiences across multiple online channels
  • Create a Free Account
    • ALL CONTACT INFO
    • Contact Us


      11AM ET Sunday – 8PM ET Friday

  • Send a Release
  • Sign up
  • Log in
  • Resources
  • RSS
  • GDPR
  • News in Focus
    • Browse All News
    • Multimedia Gallery
  • Business & Money
    • Auto & Transportation
    • Business Technology
    • Entertain­ment & Media
    • Financial Services & Investing
    • General Business
  • Science & Tech
    • Consumer Technology
    • Energy & Natural Resources
    • Environ­ment
    • Heavy Industry & Manufacturing
    • Telecomm­unications
  • Lifestyle & Health
    • Consumer Products & Retail
    • Entertain­ment & Media
    • Health
    • Sports
    • Travel
  • Policy & Public Interest
  • People & Culture
    • People & Culture
  • Send a Release
  • Sign up
  • Log in
  • Resources
  • RSS
  • GDPR
  • Send a Release
  • Sign up
  • Log in
  • Resources
  • RSS
  • GDPR
  • Send a Release
  • Sign up
  • Log in
  • Resources
  • RSS
  • GDPR

NYS Athletic Trainers’ Association Partners with Parent Heart Watch
  • USA - English


News provided by

New York State Athletic Trainers' Association

Feb 13, 2014, 03:00 ET

Share this article

Share toX

Share this article

Share toX

Andy Smith, MS, ATC speaks at the 2014 Parent Heart Watch Conference.
Andy Smith, MS, ATC speaks at the 2014 Parent Heart Watch Conference.

Buffalo, NY (PRWEB) February 13, 2014 -- Approached in the fall of 2013 by a joint member of both the NYS Athletic Trainers’ Association (NYSATA) and Parent Heart Watch (PHW) for the organizations to join efforts, NYSATA saw this connection as a win-win for both groups and gladly accepted the invitation of support for one-another. In addition, PHW invited a NYSATA member athletic trainer to present at their annual national conference this past January.

I hope the NYSATA endorsement of PHW is the first of many state athletic training associations and similar organizations joining forces in the common goal of protecting our youth.

Post this

The mission of PHW is to protect youth from Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) and preventable Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) and their goals and purpose lie in the education, advocacy, and implementation of programs to help prevent disabilities and death of youth caused by SCA, including appropriate emergency action and equipment – knowing these factors could have made the difference in saving their children’s lives. This focus aligns well with the objectives and intentions of the athletic training profession and AT-related organizations like NYSATA.

Athletic trainers (ATs) are healthcare providers educated in the recognition and management of cardiac conditions that may be seen in a sport-related setting, such as SCA and commotio cordis, and are required to maintain a CPR/AED certification as part of their professional certification. ATs also understand the importance of having appropriate emergency action plans (EAPs), including appropriate equipment, in place. The partnership between NYSATA and PHW can help bring attention to an increasing health issue in the United States and will provide not only members, but healthcare providers, school officials, legislators, and the general public with educational materials, local cardiac screening opportunities for youth, and other useful resources in the prevention and emergency planning for cardiac emergencies.

PHW has a number of initiatives including affordable or free youth heart screening events, assistance in obtaining automated external defibrillators (AEDs), support for CPR/AED certifications for those who work with youth, and advocating for a National Registry of SCA and SCD in young populations. Other day-to-day points of focus are the education of youth, parents, and health care professionals, including certified athletic trainers (ATs), on the latest safety information regarding SCA, and promote effective emergency planning, including a written emergency action plan (EAP), for life-threatening situations such as SCA and traumatic cardiac injury, like commotio cordis.

Individually and as an organization, they have already changed laws, placed thousands of AEDs in local communities, and conducted heart screening events for thousands of youth. Specifically in NYS, they have a few member organizations that offer such screenings. The [Madison McCarthy Cardiac Care Coalition for Children runs screenings in the greater Buffalo area and Heart Screen New York, and affiliates - the Louis J. Acompora Memorial Foundation and the Dominic A. Murray 21 Memorial Foundation - offer screenings around Long Island. In addition to cardiac screenings, these organizations carry out grassroots awareness campaigns, organize educational events and CPR/AED training sessions, provide informational and financial assistance to schools to purchase AEDs and become Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) providers, and they lobbied for the successful passing in 2002 of “Louis’ Law” (NYS Bill #A8779) mandating that all public high schools in NYS be equipped with AEDs in their buildings and at all sporting events. They are now pursuing the introduction of the “Sudden Cardiac Arrest Act” in NYS which was recently passed in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with legislation pending in at least seven other states.

The hope is that these efforts will decrease – and eventually eliminate – preventable disabilities and death of youth caused by SCA, which is currently the leading cause of fatalities on school property in the United States – 1 in 50 schools has an episode each year. Another notable figure, especially where NYSATA is concerned, is in the student-athlete population, where statistics show that, in the U.S. alone, one young competitive athlete dies every three days from an unrecognized cardiovascular disorder. PHW also hopes to stress the importance of early diagnosis of potentially fatal cardiac disease, which is the second leading medical cause of death in children and adolescents in the United States.

In addition to approaching NYSATA for an endorsement, they also invited Andy Smith, MS, ATC, Director of Sports Medicine at Canisius College (Buffalo, NY) – and PHW member - to speak at their 9th Annual Conference in Cary, NC. On Saturday, January 18th, Smith, who is also a Past-President of NYSATA and 2014 inductee into the NYSATA Hall of Fame, presented on the "Call to Action: Engaging Your State High School Athletic Association to Effect Change.” In addition to discussing how to reach out to the state high school athletic associations, Smith encouraged PHW members to contact their state and regional Athletic Training Associations for assistance, support, and offering educational information. Smith gave an overview of the athletic training profession and offered examples of how PHW and ATs can work together in protecting youth.

“This is an amazing group of effected individuals who proactively work together as a unit and with affiliated groups, looking and working toward the future to create change in this highly underrated and serious health issue in our country,” stated Smith following his time at the PHW conference. “I hope the NYSATA endorsement of PHW is the first of many state athletic training associations and similar organizations joining forces in the common goal of protecting our youth.” Smith also noted that, following his presentation, the 160 attendees at the conference gave NYSATA a long ovation for its endorsement of PHW.

Parent Heart Watch was incorporated in 2005 after beginning three years earlier as an informal collaboration of several families across the United States, meeting only online, who all lost a seemingly healthy child unexpectedly to SCA. Thanks to grants and support from the Medtronic Foundation Heart Rescue Program and Patient Link Program the inaugural meeting of the organization was launched, along with educational materials, in 2002, and now PHW has members in nearly all U.S. states.

Parent Heart Watch joins a list of other organizations that NYSATA and other AT associations have partnered with for the awareness, prevention, and management of various life-threatening injuries, illnesses, and conditions in sport and recreation, including: the Korey Stringer Institute (KSI) – (sudden death in sport), The Second Impact with Ray Ciancaglini (concussions), Brain Injury Association (of NYS) (brain injuries/concussions), and the Sports Legacy Institute (SLI) (concussions/brain injury from sport).

NYSATA, founded in 1976 and incorporated in 1989, stands to advance, encourage and improve the profession of athletic training (AT) by developing the common interests of its membership for the purpose of enhancing the quality of healthcare for the physically active in NYS. Athletic training is practiced by certified athletic trainers (ATs), who have expertise in the assessment, emergency management, rehabilitation and prevention of acute and chronic sport-related injuries, illnesses and conditions, including concussions. Comprised of over 1,200 certified and practicing athletic trainers, NYSATA is the state-wide affiliate of the regional EATA and District Two of the NATA.

Deanna Errico, New York State Athletic Trainers' Association, http://www.gonysata2.org, +1 (315) 386-4386, [email protected]

Modal title

Cardiac Chain of Survival - Every Minute Counts - PHW
View PDF
Cardiac Chain of Survival - Every Minute Counts - PHW
Signs & Symptoms of Heart Condition - 'Not so Rare' - PHW
View PDF
Signs & Symptoms of Heart Condition - 'Not so Rare' - PHW
Louis Law of 2002 on AED Mandate in Schools
View PDF
Louis Law of 2002 on AED Mandate in Schools
About 'Heart Screen NY'
View PDF
About 'Heart Screen NY'
Free Cardiac Screening at West Islip HS 3.15.14
View PDF
Free Cardiac Screening at West Islip HS 3.15.14
NYSATA Brochure 9.2013
View PDF
NYSATA Brochure 9.2013
Links to AT & Sports Health and Safety Info 9.2013
View PDF
Links to AT & Sports Health and Safety Info 9.2013
Athletic Trainers Save Lives 9.2013
View PDF
Athletic Trainers Save Lives 9.2013
YSSA National Action Plan for Sports Safety
View PDF
YSSA National Action Plan for Sports Safety
YSSA Athletes Bill of Rights
View PDF
YSSA Athletes Bill of Rights
Consensus Stmt: Preventing Sudden Death in Sec School Athletics 2013
View PDF
Consensus Stmt: Preventing Sudden Death in Sec School Athletics 2013
Position Stmt Preventing Sudden Death in Sports Feb2012
View PDF
Position Stmt Preventing Sudden Death in Sports Feb2012
The Second Impact Info Letter - Ray Ciancaglini
View PDF
The Second Impact Info Letter - Ray Ciancaglini
Youth Sports Safety Alliance - Students need ATs or Phys at Every School - article 2.2013
View PDF
Youth Sports Safety Alliance - Students need ATs or Phys at Every School - article 2.2013
Profile of Athletic Trainers
View PDF
Profile of Athletic Trainers
Commotio Cordis - NATA Official Statement
View PDF
Commotio Cordis - NATA Official Statement
Preventing Sudden Death Best Practices - NATA Consensus Statement
View PDF
Preventing Sudden Death Best Practices - NATA Consensus Statement
Preventing Sudden Death - NATA Position Statement
View PDF
Preventing Sudden Death - NATA Position Statement
AT: Routine Job with Life or Death Moments
View PDF
AT: Routine Job with Life or Death Moments
AT and Athletic Staff Revive Referee
View PDF
AT and Athletic Staff Revive Referee
Why Use an Athletic Trainer - NATA District 2
View PDF
Why Use an Athletic Trainer - NATA District 2
Profile of Athletic Trainers
View PDF
Profile of Athletic Trainers
Cardiac Chain of Survival - Every Minute Counts - PHW Signs & Symptoms of Heart Condition - 'Not so Rare' - PHW Louis Law of 2002 on AED Mandate in Schools About 'Heart Screen NY' Free Cardiac Screening at West Islip HS 3.15.14 NYSATA Brochure 9.2013 Links to AT & Sports Health and Safety Info 9.2013 Athletic Trainers Save Lives 9.2013 YSSA National Action Plan for Sports Safety YSSA Athletes Bill of Rights Consensus Stmt: Preventing Sudden Death in Sec School Athletics 2013 Position Stmt Preventing Sudden Death in Sports Feb2012 The Second Impact Info Letter - Ray Ciancaglini Youth Sports Safety Alliance - Students need ATs or Phys at Every School - article 2.2013 Profile of Athletic Trainers Commotio Cordis - NATA Official Statement Preventing Sudden Death Best Practices - NATA Consensus Statement Preventing Sudden Death - NATA Position Statement AT: Routine Job with Life or Death Moments AT and Athletic Staff Revive Referee Why Use an Athletic Trainer - NATA District 2 Profile of Athletic Trainers

Contact PRWeb

  • 11AM ET Sunday – 8PM ET Friday
  • Contact Us

About PRWeb

  • About PRWeb
  • Partners
  • Partnership Programs
  • Editorial Guidelines
  • Resources

Why PRWeb

  • Why PRWeb
  • How It Works
  • Who Uses It
  • Pricing

Accounts

  • Create a Free Account
  • Log in
  • Contact Us

Do not sell or share my personal information:

  • Submit via [email protected] 
  • Call Privacy toll-free: 877-297-8921

Contact Cision

Products

About

My Services
  • All News Releases
  • Online Member Center
  • ProfNet
Cision Distribution Helpline
888-776-0942
  • Legal
  • Site Map
  • RSS
  • Cookie Settings
Copyright © 2025 Cision US Inc.