Miami Valley View 2024 American Heart Association Go Red

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Our second half of our Miami ValleyView Today but Dayton public service program brought
to you by iHeartMedia. Dayton.I'm your host Dave Alexander, and for
the second half, we're going tobe talking about Heart Month in February,
which of course starts here this comingweek. And joining us is Kim Reck.
She is the CEO of Wright StatePhysicians and the chair for Go Red

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for Women and Kim, thank youso much for joining us this morning.
Thanks for having me. So giveus an idea of I know it's February
is always heart month, and howdoes American Heart Association kind of push out
the word. Sure, we're gearingup for a lot of great exciting things
going on in the month of February. So not only is February Heart month,

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yeah, every year, the AmericanHeart Association is also celebrating its one
hundredth birthday this oh my, yes. So we're very excited to message a
lot of things around that I thinksome of the most important he takeaways as
we head into February. So nextFriday is National where Red Day. Okay,

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I want to see everybody in theirred post on social media absolutely hashtag
Dayton goes red. Okay, I'mgonna remember that on I'm gonna write that
down so we don't forget that.Yep, that's great. Okay, So
that kind of that kicks off ourcampaign. When did that start? You
have any idea when they go red? Oh my gosh, go red campaign
started. I feel like like eversince I've been here, because I worked

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with Kim Ferriss for a very longtime. Yes, she would always remind
me. She's like, it's comingup where it makes you you get red
on this Friday. Yes, AndI feel like it's been going on for
a while. It has okay,good yeah, yeah, And it's a
great way. It's a great wayto remind everyone about, you know,
heart health, especially in women becausethis is it's still the number one.
It is. Wow, it is. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of

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death and women. Geez, Nearlyforty five percent of women over the age
of twenty, also over the ageof twenty live with some arm of cardiovascular
disease. Oh my, yes,that is. I didn't realize that was
such a large number. And goingthat young sounds amazing to me. Holy
cow. So it's very important tomake sure you're visiting your doctor regularly,

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I guess yes. And part ofthe reason for that is, you know,
American Heart Association is involved in andsponsors a lot of research, a
lot of clinical research around cardiovascular diseaseSURE and as of twenty twenty, only
thirty eight percent of clinical trial participantswere women. So one of the reasons

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why so many of us are livingwith it and dying from it is because
we just we don't know enough yet. And that's one of the things that
HEART does amazingly well is to fundthat kind of research. So when we're
out there asking you for money orasking you to join us at these events,
it's because we're trying to advance theresearch of vascular disease in women.

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So what kind of things other thanof course, just the month of February,
which is a very important month,because that's what we're you know,
focusing on on on hard month.Ask to you, guys, what are
you doing to say? Hey ladies, you know, and we need to
get out there and make sure we'redoing all right. Yep. So a
couple of calls to action certainly aroundis around CPR. So the other thing

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that we have found is women areless likely to receive bystander CPR than men,
and and the typical layperson is reallyscared to do bystander CPR. Sure,
I'm curious now, of course,with the whole cardiac issues that we

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had with the one football player uhHamlin hand yes last year at Cincinnati,
I think I think the CPR thinghas become more in tune. People are
more folksocused on it, and I'veseen a lot of things where people are
going to learn how to do CPRbecause it's changed since I was a kid.
You know, I remember in highschool learning the whole nose pinch and

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you know, tilt of the headand the compressions. When that's really it
doesn't all just do that anymore,right right? Research sponsored by in part
by Heart Association has shown that handsonly, so no more pinching the nose,
no more breaths, hands only chestcompression CPR is highly highly effective.

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Yeah, And so we have agoal to double the survival of cardiac arrest
by twenty thirty. That's one ofthe Heart Association schools. And the way
we do that is to make surethat someone in every household across the nation
is trained in CPR hands only CPR. Children as young as nine can learn

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CPR. H that's amazing and theyhave enough strength and power to uh,
yes, no kidding, Yes,So a nine year old can can perform
CPR. Such good news. Imean that's really something important to know,
which is which is so important becauseof that of the three hundred and fifty
thousand people who suffer from cardiac eventsover you know, outside of the hospital

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every every year, twenty three thousandof those are children. What so if
schools, if we can do handsonly CPR in schools, yeah, kids
can. Kids can stand up andsay, hey, I've learned this skill,
I know this skill and help thetwenty three thousand or children. Yes,
my heavens, and I'm you knowas we as I think back to

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last year and on that football fieldand how important CPR was until they were
able to get you know, toget the medical team out there and and
what not, how important it is. So that's wow. I didn't realize
it was that many children in ayear either. Yes, and speaking of
CPR, it's funny when all thathappened. It's not funny, but you
know in the the AES, isthat what it's called? Yes, what

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is that the little the system.I'm like, I immediately, like the
next week, walked around this buildinguntil I found where I was a ed
D A d ye. Yeah,I find out where this thing is,
you know, just so I knowif this ever happens, then I'll be
aware of where it is in ourbuilding. And it's right down at the
bottom of the steps there. Soyeah, so it's very important. So

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I know you said you're a bigsponsor a h A is a big proponent
of CPR. Are there a lotof classes available? I mean does your
website say, hey, you knowhere we go We're right here. Yep.
So you can go to heart dotorg, slash nation, Yeah,
find a CPR class. You canfind out where we we have the nation's

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only the nation's only hands only mobilekiosk hands only CPR mobile kiosk here in
the region. And how often ishow mobile is it? I mean,
when how you guys are everywhere?It's it's it moves every right now six
to seven months. It's started outat the student union at Right State,
Okay, where lots of students andfaculty and staff were able to learn hands

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only CPR and you can test rightthen and there oh wow, right there
in the moment they give you feedback, yep, they get and how how
long? Just you know, somebody'sgonna be like, I don't have time
to learn CPR. I mean itdoesn't take that long. Five minutes,
five minutes. I mean, seriously, it takes five minutes. You get
a couple of coffee in five minutes, five minutes, you could save a
life. I mean, that's rightthere. That is worth. That is

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worth all the find where it is. Go get some go get some some
training for CPR. And I thinkdoing it is I mean, you can
watch somebody do it. I thinkyou can YouTube it or whatever, fine,
and it gives you the basics.But I think you need to go
on there and put your hands onthis CPR dummy whatever you want to call
it, and get it done.Five minutes and you're trained. That's awesome.

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So what else? So you mentioned, of course, the importance of
all this CPR training is probably youryour biggest is one of the things you're
pushing the most is CPR training.Anything else. So coming up here in
May, we are having our annualgo Red for Women luncheon right here at

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the date and arcade. Ah,really yes, oh cool. Yes,
So we as we gear up forthat, there's a lot of messaging that
goes around that where we have agreat executive leadership team with whom we're working
to do some fundraising around that andmostly awareness. So really what we want

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to do is to be able toget into all of the area employers to
say come to go read learn more. You can learn CP hands only CPR
there. And so we're really reallyexcited about So what does what It's a
luncheon, it's a lot okay,So give me an idea of what happens

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at the luncheon. Yeah, Sothe first half hour is a is a
health kind of expo. That's wherewe'll have the kind of the mannequins to
practice are the training yep? Absolutely, And and it's a great opportunity for
women to interface with a lot ofwomen owned businesses to talk about your you

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know, your own overall fitness andhealth, nutritional health, financial health,
all of those things really focusing onthe the whole woman. Yeah, So
how does one get it? Like, how how do I go? I
mean, is it free? Isit? Is there a ticket involved?
You can purchase tickets and the youcan do that at Heart dot org slash

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dayton go red. Okay, easyenough, all right, So get what's
the ticket? Any idea I'm tryingto think it on sale now is one
question? They are They are noton sale yet, okay. And and
really what we encourage everyone to dois encourage your employer to purchase a table
and then fill the table. Yeah, yeah, I mean that's a that's
a great thing. Like I said, I ran around this building until I

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found the AED. But if youhave folks here who also in your office
that can learn CPR, yes thatyou know. I think it's a great
thing for employers to grab a tableand get on down or and learn this
kind of stuff and go enjoy agreat lunch from the American Heart Association and
really, you know, and learn, you know, and then be that's
in May. You said, that'sin May, all right, May ninth?

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May ninth? And can people volunteer? Do you guys need volunteers throughout
the We're always looking for always lookingfor volunteers, not just for this event,
but for all events. Yep.Okay, so, and that's at
the website. Yep. You canfind out how to volunteer at Heart dot
org. All right, So beforeI let you go, we'll come back
and we'll give all this information againabout next Friday and of course the lunch
and that's coming in May. Youmentioned that the American Heart Association is celebrating

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it's one hundredth birthday, one hundredyears. That is amazing, So is
there what's going on? What doyou guys doing this cele's one hundred years
for crying out loud, Yes,So you'll see lots of things from the
National Office in terms of social media. We will certainly highlight it next Friday
in our National wear Red Day,highlighted at the luncheon. Sure, definitely,

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that's amazing. One hundred years.You guys have been doing some great
things and of course I'm sure savinga ton of lives. So once again,
so go Red for Women is comingup Friday, that's just coming Friday,
and all we gotta do is iswear red. That's right, just
showing your support American Heart Association andjust wear red, National wear Red Day,

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National wear Red Day. What wasthe I was told you I was
going to write it down and Ididn't. Hashtag If you're putting up in
socials, it's hashtag. Oh hashtagDayton goes Red, Dayton goes Red again.
This time I'm writing it down,Kim, I swear Dayton goes Red.
So that's coming up Friday. Somake sure you tell all of your
office mates, you know, anddo it and post it up on your
on your socials and say, look, what's going on. This is important,

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you know, we got to getthis done. We're going red uh
for Heart month from the American HeartAssociation. Uh, and we're gonna help
a lot of people here do withsome CPR training and whatnot. And then
the information about the upcoming luncheon,we'll find that where uh heart dot org
slash Dayton go Red. Heart dotorg slash Dayton go Red. Right,

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that's May ninth, May ninth,and coming up in the near future.
I'm sure we'll have a ticket informationand more information about what you do.
But as Kim had said, sherecommends, hey, why don't you get
you know, talk to your bossand you know, get some tickets,
get a table together, learn havea great afternoon here in the arcade,
which if you haven't been to thearcade, it is a it is a
gorgeous place, especially the rotunda,which I'm sure that's where you're going to

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be, Yes, the great.Yeah, it is. It is an
absolutely gorgeous building, So we're gladyou're here. Hopefully my clear Clear Channel,
Iheartreate Clear Channel, iHeartRadio Bosses listening, and he'll be able to have
us down there with you as well. Kim, I appreciate that you guys
are doing great things at the AmericanHeart Association and thanks for coming in.
Of course, thanks for having me