Tag Archive for heart health

Mounties Care supporting Yellow Wiggle’s Mission

Former Yellow Wiggle Greg Page survived a cardiac arrest while performing at a Wiggles reunion show in January 2020. He survived because bystanders knew how to do CPR and there was an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) nearby in the club where he was performing. Of 28,000 cardiac arrests each year in Australia, only 10 per…

Heart Failure Awareness Week (June 27 – July 3)

Clinicians, patients, carers and politicians are joining leading charity hearts4heart in urging Australians to be smart about their heart, as they kick off Australia’s inaugural Heart Failure Awareness Week (June 27 – July 3). Now affecting 1 in 50 Australians, heart failure is becoming increasingly common and expected to rise, as more people survive heart…