Details of Annual Memorial Service 13th December

This group was set up in 2006 by parents who have all suffered the loss of a child, recognising the need for:

• Contact with other parents or partners or siblings who have been bereaved through Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD).
• More information about Sudden Cardiac Death
• Contact with Counsellors nationwide
• Raising awareness of SCD & the warning signs of potentially life-threatening heart conditions

Mission:
It is this group’s mission to support affected families and to affect change so that others may live.

Reducing the Risk: A Strategic Approach
(Report of the Task Force on Sudden Cardiac Death) http://www.dohc.ie/publications/sudden_cardiac_death.html

The Group wishes to assist and support the implementation of the Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) Taskforce recommendations.

Particular points of these recommendations are very important to us.
Awareness:

• Increased public awareness of Sudden Cardiac Death In The Young.
• Education of Family Practitioners in Sudden Cardiac Death.

Screening:

• Timely and appropriate referral of affected families to medical experts.
• Screening centres for affected families (SCD is a family problem, not an individual problem).
• Identifying at risk individuals and families and the introduction of pre-participation sport questionnaires in schools and sports clubs.

(AEDs) Automatic External Defibrillators:
Create HeartSafe communities and encourage extensive AED placements and training of inidividuals in CPR and the use of AEDs.

If you would like to get in touch with a member of the SCD in the young Support Group or would like to be informed of up coming meetings and communications, please complete the feedback form or call 01 6685001.

For further information, please visit www.scdyoung.ie

Read newsletter July 2008