Sept. 10, 2023

Preventing Heart Dangers in Child Athletes: A Guide

Preventing Heart Dangers in Child Athletes: A Guide

Have you ever wondered about the real dangers that athletes, especially young athletes, face when it comes to sudden cardiac arrest? Dr. William Choctaw, MDJD, a notable authority in this field, joins us to illuminate us about this grave, yet often o...

Have you ever wondered about the real dangers that athletes, especially young athletes, face when it comes to sudden cardiac arrest? Dr. William Choctaw, MDJD, a notable authority in this field, joins us to illuminate us about this grave, yet often overlooked, risk. Particularly, he addresses the often-confused matter of myocarditis and how it can lead to sudden cardiac arrest. 

As a parent whose son played football, I understand the worry that comes with children playing sports. Taking extra safety measures can never be overemphasized. With Dr. Choctaw, we explore how regular physical exams, EKG tests, and education about risk factors can serve as precautionary measures. The discussion also brings to light the importance of having AEDs, or Automated External Defibrillators, on every team and somebody certified to use them. We believe that effective communication, trust, and building strong relationships are integral in fostering a safe environment for our children.

Wrapping up, we address some critical medical questions pertaining to heart health. Dr. Choctaw helps discern between heart attacks and cardiac arrests, emphasizing the critical role that spotters for AEDs play in emergencies. We delve into the possibility of hereditary conditions and their correlation (or lack thereof) with age. It's a compelling dialogue filled with practical advice on preserving heart health, especially for young athletes, that you wouldn't want to miss.

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The Host, Dr. William Choctaw; MD, JD, is a healthcare leadership expert, possessing a Medical Doctorate from the Yale University School of Medicine, and a Jurist Doctorate from Western University. Over a span of 50 years practicing medicine, he has served as Chief of Staff, Chief of Surgery, and as a member of the medical executive committee at Citrus Valley Medical Center over a 10 year period. Also, while practicing at Citrus Valley Medical Center, he served as Chief Transformation Officer, (developed a Robust Process Improvement/Lean Six Sigma program). Dr. Choctaw lectures nationally and internationally on medical leadership issues for hospital staffs, executives, and managers. He served as a Physician Surveyor on the Joint Commission. He's the author of 2 books, "Medical Malpractice: A Physician's Guide to the Law" and "Transforming the Patient Experience: A New Paradigm for Hospital and Physician Leadership, published by the Springer Publishing Co. He’s the President of Choctaw Medical Group, Inc., a clinical practice and medical legal consulting firm for medical staff executives, physician leaders, and hospitals.

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100:00:00,501 --> 00:00:02,424Speaker 1: Welcome to the healthy, wealthy and wise 200:00:02,524 --> 00:00:08,125podcast with Dr William Chokta, MDJD. Our mission is to empower 300:00:08,164 --> 00:00:11,917you with the knowledge and the tools you need to thrive in all 400:00:12,118 --> 00:00:16,204aspects of your life. Join us now as we discuss everything 500:00:16,285 --> 00:00:19,823from nutrition and exercise to money management and personal 600:00:19,862 --> 00:00:24,753growth. Dr Chokta will provide insightful advice on how to 700:00:24,794 --> 00:00:28,064improve your physical and financial health, as well as 800:00:28,123 --> 00:00:31,460your emotional and mental well-being. Whether you're 900:00:31,481 --> 00:00:35,936looking to boost your energy levels, unlock financial freedom1000:00:35,936 --> 00:00:40,228or cultivate a more positive mindset, we've got you covered. 1100:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,901Get ready to become the best version of yourself? So let's 1200:00:45,941 --> 00:00:50,347get started. Here's Dr William Chokta, MDJD. 1300:00:51,619 --> 00:00:55,783Speaker 2: So what is sudden cardiac risk? Number one is the 1400:00:55,884 --> 00:01:00,243most common cause of death in athletes. Now let me back up and1500:01:00,243 --> 00:01:04,879put some things in perspective.This is very, very rare. This 1600:01:04,900 --> 00:01:07,599is not something that happens every day, once a month, it 1700:01:07,620 --> 00:01:10,727probably doesn't even happen once a year, which is probably 1800:01:10,748 --> 00:01:14,799why you haven't even heard of itbefore. But it does happen. And1900:01:14,799 --> 00:01:17,313the point I'm trying to make and I'll make this one, or try 2000:01:17,334 --> 00:01:21,448to make this one throughout out,especially this morning is if 2100:01:21,509 --> 00:01:25,900this athlete or this child is your child or your family member2200:01:25,900 --> 00:01:28,602, you don't care about the numbers. You don't care if it's 2300:01:28,802 --> 00:01:33,542one in 100, one in 1,000, one in50,000. You don't want it to 2400:01:33,581 --> 00:01:37,707happen to your child. So we'll talk about some mitigation 2500:01:37,748 --> 00:01:41,161things that I recommend that could be done, and even some 2600:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,370things that I think parents can do, just sort of help with this.2700:01:44,370 --> 00:01:48,829But we'll get into that a bit later. Remember this guy this is2800:01:48,829 --> 00:01:53,454Bronny James. Bronny James, if you don't know, is the son of 2900:01:53,875 --> 00:01:57,504the great LeBron James, probablyone of the most famous 3000:01:57,563 --> 00:02:03,766basketball players in our time. Needless to say, bronny is his 3100:02:03,825 --> 00:02:11,447son same genes. So no big surprise that Bronny decides 3200:02:11,467 --> 00:02:15,843that he must follow dad's footsteps. No big surprise there3300:02:15,843 --> 00:02:20,335and he's obviously very, very good, or he wouldn't be on these3400:02:20,335 --> 00:02:24,826teams and he wouldn't have beendrafted by one of the best 3500:02:24,866 --> 00:02:28,762schools with teams in the country USC. But Bronny is the 3600:02:28,822 --> 00:02:32,875reason for this particular discussion, because Bronny is 3700:02:32,935 --> 00:02:39,200not. He's relatively unique, buthe's not that unique. And the 3800:02:39,381 --> 00:02:42,530argument that I'm going to try to make, starting now and toward3900:02:42,530 --> 00:02:47,347the end of this discussion, is we can do more, in my judgment, 4000:02:48,048 --> 00:02:54,149to protect our student athletes.My grandson is named Vincent. 4100:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,724He's a star soccer player, all the things, whatever you want to4200:02:57,724 --> 00:03:01,925call it, graduated from high school this year as well as the 4300:03:01,965 --> 00:03:06,645way to college next year. There are hundreds, if not thousands, 4400:03:06,724 --> 00:03:11,082of athletes just like Bronny andVincent, and my point is I 4500:03:11,143 --> 00:03:17,639think we can do a better job in helping and protecting them. Now4600:03:17,639 --> 00:03:21,610, when we talk about sudden cardiac death, let's back up and4700:03:21,610 --> 00:03:25,585say but what is the most commoncause of heart problem, which 4800:03:25,645 --> 00:03:30,920is rare, okay, in young people or in athletes? And the most 4900:03:31,001 --> 00:03:35,536common cause, the most common type of heart problem in young 5000:03:35,576 --> 00:03:40,483people is something called myocarditis. Now, everything in 5100:03:41,948 --> 00:03:47,229medicine has a meaning. So when we say myo, myo means muscle 5200:03:48,901 --> 00:03:56,021Carp, c-r-d means heart and ids means inflammation of. So when I5300:03:56,021 --> 00:04:00,912say myocarditis, I'm talking about inflammation of the heart 5400:04:00,951 --> 00:04:07,360muscle, again a relatively rare problem, but it does occur. So, 5500:04:07,561 --> 00:04:13,197in general, this is considered to be the most common reason why5600:04:13,197 --> 00:04:18,009young people may very well havecardiac death in their youth. 5700:04:19,199 --> 00:04:23,370However, it is not the most common reason for sudden cardiac5800:04:23,370 --> 00:04:27,761death, which is why we're mentioning it in context and 5900:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,867just want you to be aware of it.But myocarditis is not what 6000:04:30,887 --> 00:04:35,084we're going to talk about today.Okay, so with myocarditis and 6100:04:35,163 --> 00:04:38,151as the name implies, if you havean inflammation of your muscle,6200:04:38,151 --> 00:04:41,269let's say the heart muscle, usually you're going to have 6300:04:41,329 --> 00:04:44,257symptoms over time. You're goingto have soreness, you're going 6400:04:44,278 --> 00:04:47,982to have discomfort, you're goingto have pain. So, myocarditis 6500:04:48,101 --> 00:04:51,709reded. It is a serious problem, but it is something that occurs 6600:04:51,889 --> 00:04:56,360over time. It is something that occurs over time. What I'm 6700:04:56,401 --> 00:05:01,350talking about is sudden cardiac arrest, something that happens 6800:05:01,430 --> 00:05:04,803immediately, and this is what we're going to focus on this 6900:05:04,843 --> 00:05:11,786morning. When sudden cardiac arrest occurs and this is when 7000:05:11,867 --> 00:05:16,245you are in a crowd or you're in a store, you're out walking on 7100:05:16,264 --> 00:05:18,951the street, you're in a park and, all of a sudden, the person 7200:05:19,139 --> 00:05:22,689suddenly drops to the floor, to the ground, because the heart 7300:05:22,709 --> 00:05:28,201just stops, sudden cardiac arrest. Most of these, 7400:05:28,401 --> 00:05:32,350understandably, are going to be outside of the hospital. As you 7500:05:32,389 --> 00:05:35,601might imagine, many of these patients are not sick. Again, 7600:05:35,641 --> 00:05:38,305we're talking about athletes. They're not ill in general. 7700:05:38,920 --> 00:05:41,528They're running around like any other healthy young person would7800:05:41,528 --> 00:05:48,137be. So their survival depends on them being in a hospital or 7900:05:48,156 --> 00:05:51,226close to a hospital where they can get certain types of 8000:05:51,247 --> 00:05:54,644treatment. So what am I saying? I'm saying those types of 8100:05:54,663 --> 00:05:58,440treatments should be outside of the hospital. And then, very 8200:05:58,461 --> 00:06:04,351specifically, one is the deprivileged, the automatic 8300:06:04,391 --> 00:06:08,882deprivileged, which can easily be portable. You will see them 8400:06:08,961 --> 00:06:12,540in some airports when you go to catch your plane. You will see 8500:06:12,562 --> 00:06:15,615them in some malls, shopping malls where a lot of people are,8600:06:15,615 --> 00:06:20,726where crowds of people congregate, because anybody can 8700:06:20,807 --> 00:06:25,401subtly have a cardiac arrest if you have some pre-existing 8800:06:25,422 --> 00:06:33,108cardiac condition. So let's sortof take another look at this. 8900:06:35,660 --> 00:06:41,093The most common diagnosis in patients, young people, who have9000:06:41,093 --> 00:06:47,062sudden cardiac arrest, is what we call cardiomyopathy. Okay, 9100:06:47,406 --> 00:06:52,026cardiomyopathy. Again, let's break the word up medically 9200:06:52,307 --> 00:06:56,464Cardio. Cardio is a heart my over. We're talking about muscle9300:06:56,464 --> 00:07:01,910Opathy. We're talking about a disease of the heart and muscle 9400:07:03,021 --> 00:07:05,165and this is a disease that you're born with. It's not 9500:07:05,225 --> 00:07:07,911anything they did. It's not anything that they should or 9600:07:07,930 --> 00:07:11,086should not have reported. It's not anything that they ate or 9700:07:11,187 --> 00:07:14,420it's not an injury. They were born with. It's in their genes, 9800:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,906it's from mom and dad and grandma and great dad and all 9900:07:17,947 --> 00:07:21,862the way up that genetic chain. Okay, and because they were born10000:07:21,862 --> 00:07:26,060with it, they don't know. They have it. They don't, and that's 10100:07:26,120 --> 00:07:30,968part of the problem. The good news is we know that the 10200:07:31,028 --> 00:07:34,300majority of these patients, these young people, could be 10300:07:34,360 --> 00:07:38,891diagnosed with a simple test called an electrocardiogram, an 10400:07:39,050 --> 00:07:42,389EKG. This is where they hook up the things to your heart and 10500:07:42,408 --> 00:07:47,305they have you lay down and then they run the strip and it just 10600:07:47,444 --> 00:07:50,009monitors your heartbeat, shows you how your heart is beating. 10700:07:50,610 --> 00:07:53,680So keep that in mind. We're going to come back to that. Most10800:07:53,680 --> 00:07:58,509of these problems could be diagnosed ahead of time by 10900:07:58,569 --> 00:08:02,543getting a basic test. I don't know how much it costs, but it's11000:08:02,543 --> 00:08:11,064not that expensive. Most sportsprograms do not do EKGs on the 11100:08:11,225 --> 00:08:15,863athletes, right? So we're going to talk about that a bit later 11200:08:15,884 --> 00:08:23,225too. And so then the issue is well, if the team won't do it, 11300:08:23,375 --> 00:08:28,017who should do it? If it's my sonor my grandson, how do I 11400:08:28,079 --> 00:08:32,216protect him. How do I make sure that everything is okay? Let's 11500:08:32,235 --> 00:08:37,201say, my kid plays club soccer and every Saturday or Saturday 11600:08:37,240 --> 00:08:40,557and Sunday they go off for a team, but for a game. How do I 11700:08:40,616 --> 00:08:46,361make sure that my 20-year-old, my 15-year-old, does not end up 11800:08:46,402 --> 00:08:50,956having acute cardiac arrest, a sudden cardiac arrest? Again, 11900:08:51,417 --> 00:08:55,578it's a rare problem based on numbers, but indeed it does 12000:08:55,620 --> 00:09:01,600happen. Just a general review Most people who have heart 12100:09:01,642 --> 00:09:06,384disease, who are adults, have what's called coronary heart 12200:09:06,404 --> 00:09:11,404disease. The coronary artery is the main artery that supplies 12300:09:11,585 --> 00:09:15,399the heart. Think of the heart asa muscle. Think about your fist12400:09:15,399 --> 00:09:19,361Heart's, about the size of yourfist ball down. It's a muscle. 12500:09:19,796 --> 00:09:23,660It pumps blood throughout the body. What makes that muscle 12600:09:23,721 --> 00:09:26,182work, among other things, is themuscle getting good blood 12700:09:26,201 --> 00:09:30,823supply. If you clog up the arteries or the canals that take12800:09:30,823 --> 00:09:34,322the blood to that muscle, that muscle won't work nearly as well12900:09:34,322 --> 00:09:37,022. And that's usually what happens as we get older and 13000:09:37,123 --> 00:09:40,956older and older and depending onour lifestyle, our eating 13100:09:41,015 --> 00:09:44,638habits, whether we exercise and not, etc. And then we end up 13200:09:44,658 --> 00:09:48,000with coronary artery disease. Young people and when I say 13300:09:48,020 --> 00:09:51,316young people I'm talking about less than 21 years of age don't 13400:09:51,376 --> 00:09:56,159have problems with the coronary artery in general. If they have 13500:09:56,200 --> 00:10:00,205heart problems, it's going to becaused by cardiomyopathy, 13600:10:00,556 --> 00:10:04,643something that they were born with Again, very rare, very rare13700:10:04,643 --> 00:10:10,196. But if it's your child, you don't care with the muscle. So 13800:10:10,297 --> 00:10:14,123who are these kids? Well as we said, they're young, less than 13900:10:14,163 --> 00:10:18,10125 years of age. They play the basic sports basketball, 14000:10:18,162 --> 00:10:23,745football. Some have theorized that because they are athletes 14100:10:25,355 --> 00:10:30,697and this is where the hormones are highest in athletes or in 14200:10:30,716 --> 00:10:34,179teenagers rather not as in teenagers that this is why 14300:10:34,201 --> 00:10:36,621there's the self-worth. No one knows whether that's true or not14400:10:36,621 --> 00:10:40,879. That's just a theory, but we do know that the body is 14500:10:40,919 --> 00:10:45,004changing at different stages of life and doing different ages, 14600:10:45,095 --> 00:10:49,197and whether that change is associated with hormone changes 14700:10:49,217 --> 00:10:52,437that normally occurs in every single child we don't really 14800:10:52,557 --> 00:10:57,360know, but it's just something tokeep in mind. So what we're 14900:10:57,399 --> 00:11:01,735talking about is the heart and heart-related problems. Again, 15000:11:01,897 --> 00:11:05,440in general, across the country, most common cause of death is 15100:11:05,480 --> 00:11:11,417heart disease. In general, across the country there is some15200:11:11,417 --> 00:11:16,157data on sudden cardiac arrest in athletes, but it's very 15300:11:16,317 --> 00:11:19,658little data. And think about that. How would you do that 15400:11:19,698 --> 00:11:23,279study? Would you go around? Would you send out 15500:11:23,320 --> 00:11:26,359questionnaires to different teams and ask them to fill it 15600:11:26,438 --> 00:11:31,505out? Fill it out? Would a coach want you to give his players 15700:11:34,195 --> 00:11:38,024information or that you want them to fill out? Or would he 15800:11:38,044 --> 00:11:40,307say you know what? We don't wantto deal with that sort of stuff15900:11:40,307 --> 00:11:42,698. We're trying to want to gain. Here we're trying to go to the 16000:11:42,739 --> 00:11:45,198state championship and you're talking about something that 16100:11:45,239 --> 00:11:49,038doesn't even happen, but one in 40,000. Thank you very much, 16200:11:49,254 --> 00:11:53,264goodbye. So my point is, the reason why we don't know a lot 16300:11:53,303 --> 00:11:57,524about this is that there's not alot of incentive, if you will, 16400:11:58,075 --> 00:12:02,080but research to be done about it. Again, I'll go back to my 16500:12:02,120 --> 00:12:06,336familiar friend. If it's your child, you don't care. You want 16600:12:06,356 --> 00:12:12,326the best for her or for him, if indeed he or she are athletic or16700:12:12,326 --> 00:12:15,437involved in athletic competition. So we have some 16800:12:15,477 --> 00:12:18,957basic information, but it's old information, and it tells us 16900:12:18,998 --> 00:12:22,080basically what we already know that if you play basketball or 17000:12:22,100 --> 00:12:25,222football or soccer or any of those high intensity sports, 17100:12:25,634 --> 00:12:29,015you're more likely to have sudden cardiac arrest than if 17200:12:29,035 --> 00:12:35,998you participate in less dramaticsports. Again, as we said, 17300:12:37,201 --> 00:12:42,317cardiac arrest is different fromheart attack and one of the 17400:12:42,337 --> 00:12:46,379things that we like to mention and we said it before heart 17500:12:46,399 --> 00:12:50,662attack is a plumbing problem. Cardiac arrest is an electrical 17600:12:50,701 --> 00:12:54,717problem Because, in addition to being a muscle, the heart also 17700:12:54,879 --> 00:13:00,940is an electrical unit. It's an electrical unit. So what do you 17800:13:00,960 --> 00:13:03,558do when you're sitting at home and all the lights go out or 17900:13:04,019 --> 00:13:07,780your TV doesn't work? You know, first thing you can call the 18000:13:07,801 --> 00:13:10,903repair people they have. First thing they'll say is unplug it 18100:13:11,034 --> 00:13:14,840and plug it back in again after five minutes. So that's what you18200:13:14,840 --> 00:13:18,384do, right, because it's an electrical unit. So what are you18300:13:18,384 --> 00:13:21,878doing? We used to call it an old-age rebooting. You know, I 18400:13:21,937 --> 00:13:25,155don't even think people use thatterm anymore. Think about it, 18500:13:25,197 --> 00:13:28,498then, because it's an electricalunit and sometimes the 18600:13:28,557 --> 00:13:30,660electrical current just don't dowhat they're supposed to do. 18700:13:30,815 --> 00:13:34,942Now I don't really understand it, but I know that more likely 18800:13:34,981 --> 00:13:37,995than not, unplugging it and plugging it back in works. So 18900:13:38,015 --> 00:13:40,600that's usually what I do. Well, the heart is sort of similar. 19000:13:41,215 --> 00:13:45,743The heart is sort of similar. Inmedicine we call that shocking 19100:13:45,942 --> 00:13:51,538the heart, we call that shock inthe heart, and we do that with 19200:13:51,558 --> 00:13:56,022the defibrillation machine, and we'll mention that a bit later. 19300:13:56,142 --> 00:13:59,135Also, one of the things I do like to mention I've mentioned 19400:13:59,155 --> 00:14:02,817this before, but I think it's always important to mention that19500:14:02,817 --> 00:14:06,298men and women experience heart attack. I'll tell my cardiac 19600:14:06,339 --> 00:14:09,884arrest now. I'll tell my heart attack which occurs in. Elderly 19700:14:09,923 --> 00:14:15,059patients or adult patients more often experience heart attack 19800:14:15,080 --> 00:14:19,796symptoms differently, and this is based on the fact that when I19900:14:19,796 --> 00:14:23,681was in medical school in the 70s, the early 70s, the studies 20000:14:23,740 --> 00:14:27,400were based on men. You know, menwere the only ones in the 20100:14:27,421 --> 00:14:32,196studies, and so what we learned,which is what triggers or 20200:14:32,255 --> 00:14:36,000stimulates our practice of medicine, was based on how men 20300:14:36,100 --> 00:14:38,677react when they have a heart attack, where you have a 20400:14:38,697 --> 00:14:41,759crushing sub-serminal chest painin the middle of the chest that20500:14:41,759 --> 00:14:45,660radiates to the right arm. What's important to understand, 20600:14:45,855 --> 00:14:49,619and what further studies have shown, is that that's not true 20700:14:50,782 --> 00:14:57,325with women necessarily, that indeed women I may not have the 20800:14:57,546 --> 00:15:01,563classic crushing sub-serminal chest pain in the middle of the 20900:15:01,624 --> 00:15:06,099chest, like somebody is sitting on your chest that then radiates21000:15:06,099 --> 00:15:10,020to the left arm, that men have.Women may come in and they may 21100:15:10,041 --> 00:15:12,457say well, you know, I just sort of feel faint, I just feel a 21200:15:12,477 --> 00:15:15,442little lightheaded, or I just been a little short of breath, 21300:15:15,554 --> 00:15:17,956and I don't really know why I'm short of breath. You know I 21400:15:17,975 --> 00:15:20,981haven't been doing anything, I haven't been exercising or 21500:15:21,001 --> 00:15:23,735whatever. Yeah, I do have some chest discomfort, but it's not 21600:15:23,775 --> 00:15:28,561horrible. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. An entire area as I 21700:15:28,640 --> 00:15:34,187mentioned before of medicine nowis now devoted to female 21800:15:34,349 --> 00:15:40,479cardiac health. Female cardiac health Medicine is one of those 21900:15:40,619 --> 00:15:45,582areas that evolves all the time and it will continue to evolve. 22000:15:46,216 --> 00:15:50,663It is not 100 percent today, it will not be 100 percent tomorrow22100:15:50,663 --> 00:15:55,418. So my health care? But it continues to evolve. So it's one22200:15:55,418 --> 00:15:59,679of the reasons why many times there's not a static best answer22300:15:59,679 --> 00:16:03,457for what I should do all the time for my health, but just 22400:16:03,479 --> 00:16:06,975keep that in mind. I just think that's an important factor. I 22500:16:06,996 --> 00:16:11,605might also parenthetically add that health care also is noticed22600:16:11,605 --> 00:16:17,524that very ethnic groups don't always respond the same way with22700:16:17,524 --> 00:16:21,355a heart attack. Again, it depends on your genes, it 22800:16:21,375 --> 00:16:24,981depends on your culture, it depends on your habits, and on 22900:16:25,022 --> 00:16:28,982and on and on. So diversity is more than just something 23000:16:29,043 --> 00:16:33,419socially acceptable. It's good health care, it's smart health 23100:16:33,461 --> 00:16:36,956care, it's quality health care that you need to take that into 23200:16:36,996 --> 00:16:40,884consideration and not just sort of paint everybody with the same23300:16:40,884 --> 00:16:45,775brush. One of the things that I've learned this has really 23400:16:45,816 --> 00:16:48,522been more particular since I've been doing these podcasts and 23500:16:48,562 --> 00:16:54,062masterclass discussions and research is how important he is 23600:16:54,523 --> 00:16:58,623to heart problems. Didn't reallyappreciate that five, 10 years 23700:16:58,702 --> 00:17:05,003ago, but with this year in the hottest year in the planet in 23800:17:05,084 --> 00:17:10,123our history, and whether you don't have to live in Arizona, 23900:17:10,182 --> 00:17:14,801in the desert or Palm Springs, we're supposed to be 100 degrees24000:17:14,801 --> 00:17:20,362today. It's a problem. It's a problem. The way that he hurts 24100:17:20,422 --> 00:17:24,261you is primarily, or one of the main reasons it hurts is with 24200:17:24,301 --> 00:17:28,500your heart. How does that happen? It makes your heart work more.24300:17:28,500 --> 00:17:33,457Okay, so think about it. So if your heart is weak, let's say 24400:17:33,497 --> 00:17:37,445you've got some heart disease and you take medication for it 24500:17:38,656 --> 00:17:42,782and your heart is taking care ofyou, but you now increase and 24600:17:42,823 --> 00:17:47,200triple the demand on that heart.That heart may not be able to 24700:17:47,480 --> 00:17:52,809ramp up to that level and then the heart stops and you end up 24800:17:52,829 --> 00:17:57,743having a heart attack. Okay, so my point, my bottom line, is be 24900:17:57,804 --> 00:18:01,020very, very careful of the heat. Please, please, please, drink a 25000:18:01,060 --> 00:18:05,338lot of water. Please hydrate yourself, please remember that 25100:18:05,500 --> 00:18:12,583if it's 85 degrees outside and you're in a house or in a room 25200:18:12,663 --> 00:18:17,736that's a closed space and you donot have air conditioning, it 25300:18:17,776 --> 00:18:21,875may be over 100 degrees where you are in that closed space. So25400:18:21,875 --> 00:18:26,560just in case it's 85 degrees outside, it may be 105 degrees 25500:18:26,862 --> 00:18:30,977where you are. So please be aware that. Likewise, if you're 25600:18:30,997 --> 00:18:34,476around young children, if you'rearound elderly people, make 25700:18:34,516 --> 00:18:38,941sure you double triple check on them Right. Don't assume that 25800:18:38,961 --> 00:18:42,519just because you feel okay, thatthey feel okay, they may not 25900:18:43,175 --> 00:18:46,692Right. And then, obviously, if there is any type of medical 26000:18:46,752 --> 00:18:49,983problem associated with that with the children or with the 26100:18:50,064 --> 00:18:54,778adults, it makes it worse. It makes it worse. So just please 26200:18:54,837 --> 00:18:57,137keep in mind that heat exhaustion, heat stroke, are 26300:18:57,157 --> 00:19:00,640real problems. They occur more and more People are dying from 26400:19:00,720 --> 00:19:06,977it, and so there are things thatwe can do to help them and what26500:19:06,977 --> 00:19:09,756we do with these series of discussions and whatever. We 26600:19:09,776 --> 00:19:12,761talk about what we can do, we don't talk about stuff that 26700:19:12,781 --> 00:19:15,717other people control. We talk about what we can do Either to 26800:19:15,757 --> 00:19:20,175help ourselves or maybe to reachout and help somebody else. It 26900:19:20,195 --> 00:19:25,373might be at work, or be in the park, or be at a store, or be at27000:19:25,373 --> 00:19:31,674church, or on and on and on. Solet's get back to our topic 27100:19:31,835 --> 00:19:35,198Sudden cardiac arrest in young people. Again, it's a rare, but 27200:19:35,218 --> 00:19:39,849it's a serious problem. You may remember the sudden cardiac 27300:19:39,910 --> 00:19:43,242arrest that occurred in this young man, again 20 something, 27400:19:44,315 --> 00:19:48,557but his that's way some was a little different. He was 27500:19:48,636 --> 00:19:53,396actually hit in the chest so he had a trauma. Now, most of my 27600:19:53,477 --> 00:19:58,798life I have been practicing as atrauma surgeon my job. I'm one 27700:19:58,818 --> 00:20:01,196of those guys and called in at three o'clock in the morning 27800:20:01,718 --> 00:20:06,076when somebody has been hit by a car, a shot or stab, and we get 27900:20:06,156 --> 00:20:09,865in and we get in and do what we do to try to save that person's 28000:20:09,925 --> 00:20:14,383life. One of the most common cause of death in young people 28100:20:15,144 --> 00:20:19,463in general now less than 60, less than 50, tends to be trauma28200:20:19,463 --> 00:20:25,525Cardiac disease, gunshot wounds, stab wounds, falls, et cetera,28300:20:25,525 --> 00:20:30,121et cetera, et cetera. But in this case, this particular type 28400:20:30,261 --> 00:20:35,718of cardiac arrest was caused by a sudden blow to the heart which28500:20:35,718 --> 00:20:40,087, is believed, interrupted the electrical system of the heart. 28600:20:40,555 --> 00:20:45,715Ok, it's like again, your TV is plugged into the wall but you 28700:20:45,736 --> 00:20:49,665take scissors and you cut the cord or you hit it very hard. 28800:20:50,255 --> 00:20:54,546You may interrupt the flow of that electricity and cause that 28900:20:54,727 --> 00:21:03,208area to not function properly. So what are some of the symptoms29000:21:03,208 --> 00:21:08,560of sudden cardiac arrest? Now you're saying, okay, dr Chakta, 29100:21:08,579 --> 00:21:11,267you're saying sudden, but now you're talking about symptoms 29200:21:11,674 --> 00:21:14,001and what I'm talking about is. I'm talking about immediate 29300:21:14,041 --> 00:21:17,497symptoms. Let me give you a hypothetical. Let's say I'm 29400:21:17,517 --> 00:21:20,628coach of a soccer team. You can tell I talk a lot about some. 29500:21:21,316 --> 00:21:25,260That's what I'm going to do. Butlet's say I'm coach of a soccer29600:21:25,260 --> 00:21:30,444team, all right, and there's Johnny who I think is just sort 29700:21:30,464 --> 00:21:35,843of a cut up. I think he just doesn't. He's a good player but 29800:21:36,384 --> 00:21:40,636he doesn't work as hard as he should work. And so after 29900:21:40,676 --> 00:21:43,846practice I have all the players to run around the field twice 30000:21:45,794 --> 00:21:50,036before they go in to get ready to go home. And so on this 30100:21:50,116 --> 00:21:52,804particular day, I tell him to dothe same thing to run around 30200:21:52,824 --> 00:21:57,824the field. Johnny runs about halfway on the field and then 30300:21:57,884 --> 00:22:02,537stops. And I go up to Johnny andI said what's your problem? He 30400:22:02,557 --> 00:22:05,119said oh, coach, I'm just tired. I said well, everybody's tired. 30500:22:05,755 --> 00:22:13,767I said if you want to be in, boppe or Messi, or, or, or, what30600:22:13,767 --> 00:22:16,654, what, what are the great players? You got a question and 30700:22:16,694 --> 00:22:20,955think about that's. That's the culture of sports, right, sports30800:22:20,955 --> 00:22:23,923, and, and you know, superstar athletes. They pushed themselves30900:22:23,923 --> 00:22:28,356beyond the limits. That's what we expected of them. When, when,31000:22:28,356 --> 00:22:32,791when Mahomes spins around like a top five times and jumps up 31100:22:33,133 --> 00:22:37,326and throws the football a hundred yards and hits them by 31200:22:37,346 --> 00:22:41,662the end zone and wins the game, we said, wow, how did he do that31300:22:41,662 --> 00:22:46,516? You know, so we expect miracles from our athletes. My 31400:22:46,576 --> 00:22:51,570point is very simple, is that, particularly with children, we 31500:22:51,590 --> 00:22:55,544need to dial it back a more uponthat. Sometimes, when little 31600:22:55,585 --> 00:22:58,434John is saying that he may really have a problem, he may 31700:22:58,576 --> 00:23:02,830not just be trying to get out ofdoing his job, because some of 31800:23:02,851 --> 00:23:07,281the early symptoms they're usually free is they may be more31900:23:07,281 --> 00:23:11,176, more exhausted than normal forthem. They may be more short of32000:23:11,176 --> 00:23:16,076breath so that they aren't ableto complete the task. They may 32100:23:16,096 --> 00:23:19,502feel dizzy or faint, which certainly you wouldn't expect in32200:23:19,502 --> 00:23:23,363a 15 year old or a 16 year old.They may complain of chest pain32300:23:23,363 --> 00:23:26,728. So my point is and this is probably really more for the 32400:23:26,748 --> 00:23:31,241coaches than and the people who work with groups of youth just 32500:23:31,321 --> 00:23:36,884be cognizant of that fact. I'll I'll. I'll give an example, 32600:23:38,134 --> 00:23:40,624another of yours I mentioned. I'm a trauma surgeon, a friend 32700:23:40,663 --> 00:23:46,163of mine who worked at Mount San Antonio College. I was a trainer32800:23:46,163 --> 00:23:49,182. She was a trainer and she would be a trainer for a lot of 32900:23:49,202 --> 00:23:52,699the high school football games and her job would be to be on 33000:23:52,719 --> 00:23:56,974the field on the sidelines and if someone gets hurt or, you 33100:23:57,015 --> 00:24:00,903know, a sprains the leg or brains or whatever, she would go33200:24:00,903 --> 00:24:04,737out and do whatever the trainers do whatever. But he 33300:24:04,757 --> 00:24:07,845came to me one day and she said Dr Chalka, I need you, I need 33400:24:07,884 --> 00:24:12,960you. I said okay. She said wouldyou be interested in sort of 33500:24:13,039 --> 00:24:18,115working with me on the sidelinesfor high school games? I said 33600:24:18,636 --> 00:24:23,559you know, I'm really pretty busy. I don't really have a lot of 33700:24:23,599 --> 00:24:27,837time I deal with that. But she pushed me. She said you know, 33800:24:27,857 --> 00:24:32,378she said I'm worried. She said I'm really worried, and this is 33900:24:33,162 --> 00:24:39,72020 years ago. She said these kids get hit out there. And she 34000:24:39,759 --> 00:24:43,701said I'm not a doctor. She said but I'm not sure they should be 34100:24:43,721 --> 00:24:46,440going back into these games. Coach, that's okay, you'll be 34200:24:46,500 --> 00:24:50,196all right. You know they spray this or give them whatever. Okay34300:24:50,196 --> 00:24:53,247, get back in the game, get backin the game. And she said I'm a34400:24:53,247 --> 00:24:57,801little nervous. I'm a little nervous. Well, as the trainer, 34500:24:57,843 --> 00:25:01,416we sort of reached the compromise. One of the schools 34600:25:01,457 --> 00:25:05,325that she was the trainer was a school where my son is an 34700:25:05,465 --> 00:25:15,715athlete. Okay, I said, talk to me. I said okay, talk to me this34800:25:15,715 --> 00:25:19,439is no Galas high school. And hedecided, of course I was 34900:25:19,479 --> 00:25:24,560against it. He decided he wantedto play football. I said, oh 35000:25:24,621 --> 00:25:28,717God, you're in the world, I'm a trauma surgeon, why do you want 35100:25:28,737 --> 00:25:34,923to play football? But okay, okay, I'm trying to be a good parent35200:25:34,923 --> 00:25:38,397, I'm trying to meet him halfwayyou know, what I mean. And I 35300:25:38,438 --> 00:25:42,398said okay, okay, okay. I said please be careful. So I told 35400:25:42,439 --> 00:25:45,840Cassandra, this is the trainer. I said I will do, because she 35500:25:45,901 --> 00:25:49,596also didn't know Galas. I said Iwill do it, for no, galas, I 35600:25:49,635 --> 00:25:54,946will be on the field for the team that my son plays on Friday35700:25:54,946 --> 00:26:00,173nights. So she said okay, okay,and the coaches were very nice,35800:26:00,173 --> 00:26:04,097they were very, very nice. And I went in with one and I told 35900:26:04,117 --> 00:26:08,961the coaches, I said if I say no,he's out, no discussion, no 36000:26:09,202 --> 00:26:13,957argument, no, it ends above. I said uh-uh, we clear Coach said 36100:26:13,977 --> 00:26:17,097yes, doctor, whatever, you say no problem, no problem. And they36200:26:17,097 --> 00:26:19,180were, they were extreme. And I said we were very, very nice. 36300:26:20,256 --> 00:26:26,006But I said all that to say that sometimes our kids are in more 36400:26:26,066 --> 00:26:29,580peril than we think they are. You know, we all like the game, 36500:26:30,056 --> 00:26:33,497I love football and I love soccer, whatever but sometimes, 36600:26:33,876 --> 00:26:38,928sometimes, there's another side of that that we can improve 36700:26:38,988 --> 00:26:43,759about and I just wanted to sort of make that. So what should we 36800:26:43,779 --> 00:26:46,903do? Okay? So, dr Huffington, going on and on for the next 36900:26:47,203 --> 00:26:51,236couple of minutes, what is it wecan do? I'm just a mom, I'm 37000:26:51,256 --> 00:26:54,862just a dad, I go out and I take my folding chair and I sit it 37100:26:54,902 --> 00:27:00,261down and I share for my son. I must admit I was particular with37200:27:00,261 --> 00:27:03,816my kids. Now I watch my grandkids, but with my kids I 37300:27:03,855 --> 00:27:08,837was one of those parents that you how would you say? Not 37400:27:08,877 --> 00:27:11,825necessarily that you would want to come to a game, but I was 37500:27:11,865 --> 00:27:17,930very engaged and my son, the big, impressive, who lives in San 37600:27:17,950 --> 00:27:20,921Diego, was actually a superstar.I'm not just saying that 37700:27:20,942 --> 00:27:26,057because he was a superstar, but he really was a superstar and he37800:27:26,057 --> 00:27:31,844was very, very fast. So he played on offense, used a center37900:27:31,844 --> 00:27:35,377forward and the teams knew thatso they would double, triple 38000:27:35,397 --> 00:27:39,560team and that sort of thing, butwhen he would get the ball he 38100:27:39,580 --> 00:27:43,961would take off. And when he would take off on the field, I 38200:27:44,000 --> 00:27:48,980would take off on the side. It'slike true confection. So he's 38300:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,723running on the field. I'm running on the side of the golf 38400:27:52,763 --> 00:27:55,875wrestling golf, and he's like, yeah, I'm going to run on the 38500:27:55,895 --> 00:27:58,262side of the golf. And now I'm yelling at the other team you 38600:27:58,323 --> 00:28:06,781can't catch him, he's too fast. I saw him on paper, my son. And 38700:28:06,801 --> 00:28:09,815so what they do? They knock him down. That's what soccer players38800:28:09,815 --> 00:28:13,208do. If they can't catch him, they trip you. You don't believe38900:28:13,208 --> 00:28:17,656that. You watch it in the program. Anyway, I digress. So 39000:28:17,676 --> 00:28:21,096what's my point is that soccer is an exciting game. Sports is 39100:28:21,156 --> 00:28:24,365an exciting thing, but we have to look at how we can protect 39200:28:24,444 --> 00:28:29,624our kids. So we have to be awarethat there are things that we 39300:28:29,644 --> 00:28:32,839can do, the better we are doing.So what are some of the things 39400:28:32,859 --> 00:28:37,559that we can do? I recommend these. This is just me. Whatever39500:28:37,559 --> 00:28:41,691sports your child plays for, this high school or club sports 39600:28:42,192 --> 00:28:46,078that they should have a physicalexam. Now, most times that I 39700:28:46,118 --> 00:28:49,478think it's probably a rule they do have a physical exam. You 39800:28:49,498 --> 00:28:52,589know, I think I remember in my office and wronged it many years39900:28:52,589 --> 00:28:56,844ago I used to do the exams of different teams who played in 40000:28:56,864 --> 00:29:01,175the area. So I think they do geta physical exam. But if you do 40100:29:01,195 --> 00:29:05,355a good physical exam, number onenot just check the boxes it 40200:29:05,375 --> 00:29:08,083should be something like oh, youasked questions about it, do 40300:29:08,103 --> 00:29:10,298your knowledge? Is anybody in your family ever had heart 40400:29:10,380 --> 00:29:14,041problems? Do your knowledge? They may not know and that's 40500:29:14,122 --> 00:29:18,199okay, but at least it should be more than that. But my record I 40600:29:18,219 --> 00:29:22,160think kids should get EKJs and Irealize that that's just you 40700:29:22,180 --> 00:29:25,996know. People can go crazy with that Because for a number of 40800:29:26,037 --> 00:29:29,885reasons, number one is the rare problem that's sudden cardiac 40900:29:29,945 --> 00:29:36,577arrest. Most kids aren't going to have it and I'm sure that the41000:29:36,577 --> 00:29:40,106last thing a high school coach wants to think about or wants 41100:29:40,186 --> 00:29:44,222parents think about, or a club coach wants parents think about 41200:29:44,323 --> 00:29:48,659is oh my God, my son adored me and I've had heart problems. 41300:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,701Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Again, I realize that that's 41400:29:52,760 --> 00:29:56,836challenging, but I go back to myoriginal point. If it's your 41500:29:56,855 --> 00:30:02,317child or if it's your grandchild, you don't care. You want zero 41600:30:02,858 --> 00:30:07,748chance of harm to your child, oryour and not only your child, 41700:30:07,788 --> 00:30:10,923to your neighbor's child, your friend's child or whatever. 41800:30:11,795 --> 00:30:14,836Nobody wants injury or problems to occur with kids. So my first 41900:30:14,876 --> 00:30:18,556recommendation is they have a good history and physical. My 42000:30:18,576 --> 00:30:23,205second recommendation they have an EKJ active screening test. 42100:30:23,226 --> 00:30:26,018That's a screening test. Now some are well, you know it's too42200:30:26,018 --> 00:30:29,345expensive and and you know these things don't have a lot of42300:30:29,345 --> 00:30:32,961money and that may be true, butI'd say I've seen a lot of kids42400:30:32,961 --> 00:30:38,096on the on the corner with signsfor car washes, to get uniforms42500:30:38,096 --> 00:30:43,086and to get this, and that you know, I think folks are doing 42600:30:43,105 --> 00:30:46,902for something more substantive. Or, you know, I think parents 42700:30:46,961 --> 00:30:49,980can do it. Parents can get to get their parent meetings, their42800:30:49,980 --> 00:30:53,798their teen moms and teen dads. There's no way in the world you 42900:30:53,817 --> 00:30:58,296can't get together and raise money to buy a little tiny EKJ 43000:30:58,336 --> 00:31:02,765machine and have someone make sure they use it each season for43100:31:02,765 --> 00:31:08,355the kids. People should be educated about risk factors. And43200:31:08,355 --> 00:31:13,486my third suggestion is everybody, everybody, everybody 43300:31:13,747 --> 00:31:19,703should know CPR. Let me say thatagain Everybody should know CPR43400:31:19,703 --> 00:31:22,880. I was absolutely delighted. I got an email from I think it was43500:31:22,880 --> 00:31:27,825Shelley Shaw, the church. Here they have a CPR test and I said 43600:31:27,946 --> 00:31:33,630yes yes, go play, steven. I think that's what why? Why, 43700:31:34,214 --> 00:31:37,959number one, there is no downside. There's no downside to knowing43800:31:37,959 --> 00:31:43,642CPR. And, who knows, you may bethe one on a field somewhere 43900:31:44,223 --> 00:31:48,156where a kid drops or an adult drops and people sort of stand 44000:31:48,176 --> 00:31:50,169around looking because they don't know what to do and 44100:31:50,209 --> 00:31:52,519they're afraid, and they're afraid to touch or whatever. 44200:31:52,539 --> 00:31:55,481Whatever you may be the ones that you know, okay, you turn 44300:31:55,521 --> 00:31:58,461them over. You do the things that you know to do, to do CPR. 44400:31:59,295 --> 00:32:02,082So please, please, please, take the class that you have not get 44500:32:02,142 --> 00:32:06,682certified. So my third recommendation is that you'd be 44600:32:06,781 --> 00:32:10,519some adult on these teams I don't care whether school team 44700:32:10,679 --> 00:32:16,622or club team. That's a certifiedCPR person, you just need one. 44800:32:17,115 --> 00:32:22,419But but gotta go to every game. Gotta go to every game. Cpr, and44900:32:22,419 --> 00:32:25,204I won't go into a lot of detail. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation 45000:32:25,244 --> 00:32:29,864is what it stands for, basic things a third compression and 45100:32:29,884 --> 00:32:33,382two breaths Again, take the class and then you'll learn 45200:32:33,521 --> 00:32:36,538specifically what it's about. The other thing that we talk 45300:32:36,578 --> 00:32:39,818about is the deep privilege. It's a little thing in a cute 45400:32:39,838 --> 00:32:44,259little green case like this is not that big, you know. I think 45500:32:44,499 --> 00:32:48,554every, every game, one of these things should be in the audience45600:32:48,554 --> 00:32:51,102, somewhere. They could be on the culture side or it could be 45700:32:51,142 --> 00:32:55,817with a parent, but you gotta go to every game. These are not 45800:32:55,836 --> 00:32:58,894difficult to use, basically. Youopen them up. Open them up, 45900:32:58,994 --> 00:33:01,902they tell you what to do, but inessence they're they have like 46000:33:01,922 --> 00:33:05,559two little sticky pads and you put them in different places on 46100:33:05,579 --> 00:33:09,661the chest and you push the button Again, unplugging your TV46200:33:09,661 --> 00:33:13,343when it goes out. You know, andwhat you're doing is you're 46300:33:13,442 --> 00:33:17,759shocking the heart's electrical unit to get it beating again, 46400:33:18,954 --> 00:33:24,145and if you can do that, you justsaved the person's life. Done, 46500:33:24,646 --> 00:33:29,497okay. So why wouldn't one want to do that? Why wouldn't one 46600:33:29,537 --> 00:33:32,734want to do that? You do not haveto be a doctor, you do not have46700:33:32,734 --> 00:33:36,788to be a nurse, you can just be a concerned person. You know? 46800:33:37,529 --> 00:33:41,938And again, that fits within our Massaclass podcast. We're 46900:33:41,958 --> 00:33:44,490talking about changing the world, we're talking about knowledge 47000:33:44,529 --> 00:33:48,926and power. We're talking about Iam my brother's keeper, or my 47100:33:48,967 --> 00:33:53,335sister's keeper, or my grandchild's grandson or 47200:33:53,355 --> 00:33:57,827granddaughter's keeper, okay. Sothis is something that is 47300:33:57,867 --> 00:34:04,395doable. I realize it is challenging, I realize that. So 47400:34:04,455 --> 00:34:12,878what we want to do is we want zero cardiac arrest, with 47500:34:13,018 --> 00:34:16,449efforts. Again, going back to what we said in the beginning. 47600:34:16,469 --> 00:34:20,943Again, when we go into the hospital we tell the chiefs of 47700:34:20,983 --> 00:34:30,355staffs and the CEOs and say you know what? You guys had 2% risk.47800:34:30,355 --> 00:34:38,769This year. You had 98% good results. We want 100. 98 is good47900:34:38,769 --> 00:34:42,197, but we want 100. Now what are we saying? We're raising the 48000:34:42,237 --> 00:34:46,690standards, we're raising the goals. I think my grandchild is 48100:34:46,731 --> 00:34:52,206worth 100%. I think my kid is worth 100%. I don't want 98%, 48200:34:52,427 --> 00:34:58,15797%, 96%. We were talking earlier because the brother 48300:34:58,257 --> 00:35:03,235Collin is from the Air Force industry before he retired the 48400:35:03,275 --> 00:35:07,266people who left with a lot of this quality management and 48500:35:07,467 --> 00:35:14,838Jesse also is aware of this, he's an AT&T former employee Our48600:35:14,838 --> 00:35:16,989people, particularly the airline industry, who figured 48700:35:17,168 --> 00:35:22,869out that if we can't keep planesin the sky, people will not fly48800:35:22,869 --> 00:35:25,994. Does that make sense? We're talking about basic stuff here, 48900:35:26,155 --> 00:35:31,371right? If I have a business and my business is flying you from 49000:35:31,913 --> 00:35:36,329Los Angeles to Chicago, but every third one of my planes 49100:35:36,449 --> 00:35:39,679falls out of the sky, you're notgoing to fly, which I have. A 49200:35:39,699 --> 00:35:41,170lot of things. 49300:35:41,652 --> 00:35:43,860Speaker 4: It's not that you don't like me, it's not that I'm49400:35:43,860 --> 00:35:44,603not a nice person. 49500:35:44,643 --> 00:35:51,155Speaker 3: You said Dr Chachot, you need to get the quality out.49600:35:51,155 --> 00:35:51,15549700:35:51,295 --> 00:35:55,164Speaker 2: I'm not going to takethat risk. Why in the world 49800:35:55,186 --> 00:35:58,371would we take the risk without trickery? I realize it made me a49900:35:58,371 --> 00:36:05,592little radical. What am I recommending? Again, I'm just 50000:36:05,652 --> 00:36:09,945about done Zero risk. All the kids should have history and 50100:36:09,965 --> 00:36:17,496physicals. The kids should have screening EKGs. I think that 50200:36:17,617 --> 00:36:24,092parents should basically approach the coach and suggest 50300:36:24,112 --> 00:36:30,465them Let me call it a party. If you are a soccer mom or a soccer50400:36:30,465 --> 00:36:35,956dad, do not I repeat, do not goto your son's soccer goal and 50500:36:35,976 --> 00:36:41,873say hold on, why don't you guys have an EKG? My son didn't get 50600:36:41,934 --> 00:36:48,411an EKG. Mad back all these kids.The coach is going to run for 50700:36:48,431 --> 00:36:52,619you. She's going to run for you.You have to be diplomatic. You 50800:36:52,639 --> 00:36:59,422can say I listened to this presentation or this podcast and50900:36:59,422 --> 00:37:02,188this speaker was talking about this net. I could get the 51000:37:02,208 --> 00:37:07,137parents together and we could purchase an EKG. If we did that,51100:37:07,137 --> 00:37:11,842could we set up a way? My next door neighbor is a doctor and he51200:37:11,842 --> 00:37:15,490said he'd be willing to do it for free. You have to help the 51300:37:15,510 --> 00:37:19,746coaches out. That makes sense, because your goal is to help the51400:37:19,746 --> 00:37:23,322child. You don't want to scare the coach to death. Your goal is51500:37:23,322 --> 00:37:26,030to help the child. Sometimes you have to be a little 51600:37:26,050 --> 00:37:29,867diplomatic about it the same thing you purchased in the 51700:37:29,907 --> 00:37:32,833D-privileged Again. I'm sure theD-privileged is a little more 51800:37:32,893 --> 00:37:36,849expensive, but they are horrible, horrible, expensive. I think 51900:37:36,949 --> 00:37:40,757every team should have one. ThatD-privileged should be carried 52000:37:41,164 --> 00:37:45,215by a parent or an adult. It should be somebody who is going 52100:37:45,235 --> 00:37:50,788to be at every game. I think that's the end. You have to know52200:37:50,788 --> 00:38:01,990how to use it. That's the bottom line. In summary, most 52300:38:02,231 --> 00:38:07,360sudden cardiac arrests are very,very rare. When they occur, the52400:38:07,360 --> 00:38:11,016most common reason for their occurrence is hypertrophic 52500:38:11,036 --> 00:38:14,666cardiac myopia. This is the weakness of the heart. Most of 52600:38:14,768 --> 00:38:19,061it is congenital. It is not something that's related to diet52700:38:19,061 --> 00:38:22,331or exercise or injury. It's something that they were born. 52800:38:23,675 --> 00:38:28,447It most commonly occurs in kids or athletes who are less than 2552900:38:28,447 --> 00:38:33,677years of age. It's a cardiac arrest which is an electrical 53000:38:33,717 --> 00:38:37,036problem. It's not like a heart attack, which is a plumbing 53100:38:37,076 --> 00:38:40,266problem where the arteries to the heart get clogged up with 53200:38:40,286 --> 00:38:48,219cholesterol. The treatment requires CPR because again, the 53300:38:48,260 --> 00:38:52,838heart has stopped. The heart hasstopped. Then we get into the 53400:38:52,878 --> 00:38:56,367definition of what's the definition of death. The 53500:38:56,387 --> 00:39:00,074definition of death medically usually depends on the brain, 53600:39:02,117 --> 00:39:05,150the reason why we don't call that death when the heart stops 53700:39:05,791 --> 00:39:10,387because you've got a few minutes, just a few, to get that blood 53800:39:10,447 --> 00:39:15,777back to the brain, because it's a brain death that in hospitals 53900:39:15,797 --> 00:39:19,358there may be some organizations that go back to it. That's when 54000:39:19,559 --> 00:39:24,914we get into the thing about brain death or death. That's why54100:39:24,914 --> 00:39:28,664we don't call I don't call sudden cardiac arrests, somebody54200:39:28,664 --> 00:39:31,934who doesn't know what it does, because they aren't dead. They 54300:39:31,954 --> 00:39:35,110aren't dead but you've got very little time. That's why you need54400:39:35,110 --> 00:39:37,844to be certified, you need to know what you're doing. You 54500:39:37,864 --> 00:39:41,954don't have a lot of whatever. Again, when I went into the 54600:39:41,974 --> 00:39:46,152emergency room, that was no discussion, that was no meeting,54700:39:46,152 --> 00:39:50,949that was no voting. I said A, b, c, d and it would be done. The54800:39:50,949 --> 00:39:53,275team would get it done and the team would end up saving the 54900:39:53,315 --> 00:39:59,452patient. Preventive measures again, they should have good 55000:39:59,492 --> 00:40:02,606health and physicals they all do, I'm sure, health and physical 55100:40:02,646 --> 00:40:06,679screenings, but they need to be quality. Additionally, I 55200:40:06,760 --> 00:40:10,911recommend they should have screening EKGs. The AED, the 55300:40:10,951 --> 00:40:15,885defibrillator, again should be included in the CPR class and 55400:40:15,925 --> 00:40:20,815folks should know how to do that. Our goal is basically zero 55500:40:20,835 --> 00:40:26,592cardiac arrest for our children.My basic principle God is in 55600:40:26,612 --> 00:40:30,907charge. I'm a position of faith and I believe, but for God being55700:40:30,907 --> 00:40:35,356in my life, I would not be blessed the way I am, and he 55800:40:35,398 --> 00:40:42,059continues to bless me each day. I do not have any bad days. I 55900:40:42,199 --> 00:40:46,248used to have bad days, but about30 years ago, pastor Revis, I 56000:40:46,268 --> 00:40:51,179decided that I don't need any more bad days, so I got rid of 56100:40:51,259 --> 00:40:59,016all of them. I got rid of all ofthem and so now I have good 56200:40:59,056 --> 00:41:03,952days and I have great days. If it is raining, it's a great day.56300:41:03,952 --> 00:41:08,789If the sun is shining, it's a great day. What's my point? It's56400:41:08,789 --> 00:41:12,722how you look at it. It's how you look at having to do with 56500:41:12,742 --> 00:41:16,572the day. It's your perspective. If it's not working for you, 56600:41:16,612 --> 00:41:20,507change your perspective. You have that control. Don't sweat 56700:41:20,527 --> 00:41:24,496the small stuff. Most stuff is small. Frequently I use the 56800:41:24,516 --> 00:41:29,713stress. I still stress, but I just don't stress much about 56900:41:29,753 --> 00:41:32,128things that would happen. I sortof figure out that most of the 57000:41:32,168 --> 00:41:35,795time when I said most, I'm talking about 90, 95% of the 57100:41:35,815 --> 00:41:40,833time what I was stressing about was small and insignificant. So 57200:41:40,893 --> 00:41:44,208I learned to let those things go, for givenness is therapy. 57300:41:44,248 --> 00:41:49,358Principle number four when I perceive that something has 57400:41:49,438 --> 00:41:52,150happened or someone has said something to me that's negative 57500:41:52,891 --> 00:41:57,168in some way. I have learned to forgive immediately. It does not57600:41:57,168 --> 00:42:00,536matter what the facts are, I don't care, it does not matter 57700:42:00,577 --> 00:42:03,230who did what to do, who was right and who was wrong. Just 57800:42:03,289 --> 00:42:07,485forgive, just forgive, and you'll be amazed that by doing 57900:42:07,527 --> 00:42:11,494that, out therapeutics that is not only for the other person, 58000:42:11,514 --> 00:42:16,291but it's also therapeutic for you. And finally, my final basic58100:42:16,291 --> 00:42:19,806principle is everything is relationship. Relationships are 58200:42:19,826 --> 00:42:22,914based on three things Mutual stack, mutual trust and good 58300:42:22,954 --> 00:42:28,974communication. If you are in a good relationship, if you have 58400:42:29,014 --> 00:42:32,369good communication, you have those three things. You're in a 58500:42:32,409 --> 00:42:36,304good relationship. If you do nothave those three things, then 58600:42:36,324 --> 00:42:42,297you have work to do. Let me alsosay that this series is part of58700:42:42,297 --> 00:42:49,494the Health and Wealth and Wise podcast. This podcast comes out 58800:42:49,755 --> 00:42:59,635almost weekly. The subscription website wwwBudsproutcom 2101003.58900:42:59,635 --> 00:43:03,762I would encourage you to subscribe. All of these 59000:43:03,961 --> 00:43:08,112presentations are on podcasts, and so if you want to go back 59100:43:08,172 --> 00:43:10,847over something two or three or four times, just for your own 59200:43:10,867 --> 00:43:17,429leisure, listen to them on the podcast. Finally, be the change 59300:43:17,869 --> 00:43:20,896you want to see in the world. Are there any questions? 59400:43:23,264 --> 00:43:25,612Speaker 1: We do have a questionfrom online, okay. 59500:43:39,757 --> 00:43:42,179Speaker 2: Next. Okay, good, yes, I think they said Patricia. 59600:43:47,050 --> 00:43:48,074Okay, go ahead, pat. 59700:43:51,731 --> 00:44:00,628Speaker 4: No, you're a miracle.You're a miracle. I'm nice and 59800:44:00,648 --> 00:44:01,150I'm mean. 59900:44:03,027 --> 00:44:03,831Speaker 2: Matt, are you there? 60000:44:05,474 --> 00:44:05,695Speaker 4: Yes. 60100:44:06,648 --> 00:44:07,371Speaker 2: Okay, go ahead. 60200:44:13,367 --> 00:44:13,929Speaker 3: What are you doing? 60300:44:20,661 --> 00:44:25,760Speaker 2: I'm still not able tohear you. Pat, Looks like 60400:44:25,780 --> 00:44:26,483you're keeping you. 60500:44:33,146 --> 00:44:33,949Speaker 4: Snap to the ground. 60600:44:36,259 --> 00:44:37,855Speaker 3: Okay Is. 60700:44:37,936 --> 00:44:43,349Speaker 2: Pat talking. Go ahead, go ahead, pat, hold on, we're 60800:44:43,369 --> 00:44:46,010coming to you, go ahead. 60900:44:47,309 --> 00:44:49,827Speaker 4: You're doing what church needs. God forbid. 61000:44:49,847 --> 00:44:54,391Someone is going to the park. Iseveryone at the church 61100:44:54,431 --> 00:45:00,795connected? You're doing what church should do. 61200:45:03,047 --> 00:45:04,914Speaker 2: You mean, like the deep regulator that we were 61300:45:04,934 --> 00:45:09,911talking about? It's a regulator.I honestly don't know what we 61400:45:10,050 --> 00:45:10,472have here. 61500:45:11,864 --> 00:45:12,909Speaker 4: I thought it was one here. 61600:45:14,467 --> 00:45:19,168Speaker 2: Oh, yes, I'm leaving,I'm going to get a bite of the 61700:45:19,208 --> 00:45:26,809K-tron, they're telling me, my wife's saying yes, so I guess I 61800:45:27,010 --> 00:45:27,771have to believe that. 61900:45:30,447 --> 00:45:34,873Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, since Rob is in question, with 62000:45:34,893 --> 00:45:35,795similar to that. 62100:45:36,135 --> 00:45:38,449Speaker 2: Go ahead, Pat. Is sheeducated? 62200:45:38,469 --> 00:45:43,789Speaker 1: that she asked is there consideration in 62300:45:43,809 --> 00:45:46,155purchasing an AED for the church? 62400:45:47,266 --> 00:45:50,090Speaker 2: Pat, I'll address that. I do not know, but I was 62500:45:50,150 --> 00:45:55,490starting to recommend that they,like the nursing ministry or 62600:45:55,510 --> 00:46:00,911some of the ministries, put thatinto motion, since we want to 62700:46:00,931 --> 00:46:01,474get to church, okay. 62800:46:01,925 --> 00:46:03,773Speaker 1: I think over here thenurse station is right. 62900:46:04,547 --> 00:46:07,367Speaker 2: It's one there, but they can double check. Okay, pat63000:46:07,367 --> 00:46:11,152, could you do me a favor? Couldyou double check and see if 63100:46:11,172 --> 00:46:14,382they do have one? Okay. 63200:46:15,126 --> 00:46:18,824Speaker 3: I've been to one before and it wasn't accepted. 63300:46:21,556 --> 00:46:24,126Speaker 2: But I think, now thatwe have a question, yeah, we 63400:46:24,186 --> 00:46:27,552are going to see the other person, okay, and then it's team63500:46:27,552 --> 00:46:27,552. 63600:46:28,034 --> 00:46:28,856Speaker 3: B yes. 63700:46:28,916 --> 00:46:29,197Speaker 4: Yeah. 63800:46:33,090 --> 00:46:35,476Speaker 3: Yes, we have a question. 63900:46:38,670 --> 00:46:41,465Speaker 2: Pat, can I give you asuggestion. If you have any 64000:46:41,525 --> 00:46:48,525difficulty with that, would you let me know? I said, if you have64100:46:48,525 --> 00:46:51,371any difficulty with them getting the AED, would you let 64200:46:51,411 --> 00:46:59,090me know. Okay, okay, okay, no problem, any other questions? 64300:46:59,512 --> 00:47:04,817Speaker 4: Answer yes, you mentioned being born, I guess, 64400:47:04,836 --> 00:47:11,483with a partner it's a really good but substantially normal. 64500:47:12,447 --> 00:47:19,795Speaker 3: About 25 years ago I got a new one. I guess it was 64600:47:19,815 --> 00:47:23,768born. Okay, it's born. 64700:47:23,788 --> 00:47:30,376Speaker 4: and then, by the timeit changes it's going to take a64800:47:30,376 --> 00:47:31,898year? 64900:47:32,079 --> 00:47:40,065Speaker 2: I do. It's a long time ago, right? So is it so? A 65000:47:40,106 --> 00:47:45,396partner, a partner, a partner, apartner, a partner, a partner? 65100:47:45,416 --> 00:47:49,588Yes, I suspect he probably was Okay. And again, remember, if 65200:47:49,628 --> 00:47:53,864you're an athlete, particularly if you're a superstar athlete, a65300:47:53,864 --> 00:47:57,427professional athlete, you're inexcellent physical condition. I65400:47:57,427 --> 00:47:59,994mean, you've had a lot of training, a lot of this and that65500:47:59,994 --> 00:48:06,054, and so my surmise would be that it probably was a 65600:48:06,074 --> 00:48:11,251congenital problem and that's why it didn't show up on some of65700:48:11,251 --> 00:48:15,766those other types of tests. I don't know why, and I think also65800:48:15,766 --> 00:48:18,735that's an example of what I wasmentioning earlier that our 65900:48:18,815 --> 00:48:21,791knowledge I'm talking about in healthcare now continues to 66000:48:21,871 --> 00:48:25,291evolve. You know, probably back then people didn't pay that much66100:48:25,291 --> 00:48:28,648attention to it. I think clearly people are paying more 66200:48:28,688 --> 00:48:29,371attention now. 66300:48:32,557 --> 00:48:37,132Speaker 3: CPO. Come on, let's just say Humbay CPR. 66400:48:42,514 --> 00:48:43,255Speaker 4: Oh, I see. 66500:48:48,371 --> 00:48:50,695Speaker 2: We've got spotters who are running around the 66600:48:50,715 --> 00:48:53,989church trying to find the AED, see if they have a good idea. 66700:48:54,885 --> 00:48:57,757But no, I mean. But to go back to your part, brother Kate, I 66800:48:57,797 --> 00:49:00,567think that's exemplary of what Iwas talking about. We're still 66900:49:00,586 --> 00:49:04,851learning about a lot of this stuff and, unfortunately, a lot 67000:49:04,891 --> 00:49:08,202of times, when people don't knowwhy things happen or base 67100:49:08,242 --> 00:49:11,710hearings about it, we tend to want to go back to a default 67200:49:11,751 --> 00:49:15,438position, the thumb belief system. That's probably wrong. 67300:49:15,905 --> 00:49:19,161Well, all those people like so-and-so, they always get you 67400:49:19,181 --> 00:49:22,438know that sort of thing which isnot based on any fact, which is67500:49:22,438 --> 00:49:25,389not based on any science, and so those are some of the things 67600:49:25,409 --> 00:49:29,128that we always want to be careful of to get the facts, get67700:49:29,128 --> 00:49:32,346the facts and help somebody getthe facts. But hopefully we can67800:49:32,346 --> 00:49:38,829stop it from happening in the future. Any other questions? 67900:49:39,088 --> 00:49:42,590Speaker 4: Yes, I'm a dr. Dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr68000:49:42,590 --> 00:49:46,492, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr. A 68100:49:46,512 --> 00:50:15,001certain thing now 40 zrobi, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, 68200:50:15,021 --> 00:50:15,684dr, dr, dr, dr, dr. 68300:50:26,480 --> 00:50:32,635Speaker 2: Dr, dr, dr, dr. RightNumber one everybody's a little68400:50:32,635 --> 00:50:38,916different, so all age of verbalations are not created 68500:50:38,996 --> 00:50:44,005equal. Some may very well be hereditary, some may not, so it 68600:50:44,025 --> 00:50:48,266would depend on in your particular family. The other 68700:50:48,306 --> 00:50:54,413factor when you say over 70, onecan argue that everybody after 68800:50:54,452 --> 00:50:57,648a certain period of time may very well have some type of 68900:50:58,010 --> 00:51:03,476diabetic problem, heart problem,whatever, just based on age. So69000:51:03,476 --> 00:51:07,447my point is that that may not all necessarily be related to 69100:51:07,527 --> 00:51:13,478genes at all, but the answer would be knowing her specific 69200:51:14,425 --> 00:51:19,914situation and what the positionsdiagnose as the reason why she 69300:51:19,934 --> 00:51:23,288would end up having that particular problem. 69400:51:26,606 --> 00:51:30,615Speaker 4: Yeah, her mother was a 40. Her brother was probably 69500:51:30,635 --> 00:51:35,961died. I think he was 50 or less in the 1940s. So that's the end 69600:51:36,041 --> 00:51:40,173of the story. Some of her brothers and sisters got it. 69700:51:40,193 --> 00:51:41,827Some of them did. That's why. 69800:51:42,128 --> 00:51:47,012Speaker 2: I was asking Could itbe a genetic Sure? And again, 69900:51:47,052 --> 00:51:49,889it depends on why they died. They may not have died from a 70000:51:49,929 --> 00:51:55,052heart condition, it may have been something else. Okay, thank70100:51:55,052 --> 00:51:55,172you. 70200:51:56,186 --> 00:52:07,447Speaker 3: What this is. What about renovation? You can hear 70300:52:07,507 --> 00:52:10,452more about people talking about they have fluid around the arm 70400:52:10,851 --> 00:52:13,876or fluid around the lungs. What's that all about? 70500:52:16,206 --> 00:52:18,552Speaker 2: That's the next one question. She's calling it. 70600:52:18,800 --> 00:52:22,824That's called congestive heart. What happens is going back to 70700:52:22,844 --> 00:52:27,344the analogy of the heart being amuscle. As a muscle, that heart70800:52:27,344 --> 00:52:30,231is going to pump fast and flow,depending on what it has to do.70900:52:30,231 --> 00:52:34,981Over time, that muscle may start to get tired Again. This 71000:52:35,001 --> 00:52:39,521is what we're talking about. Over 70, 75, no longer. It can 71100:52:39,541 --> 00:52:42,659occur sooner than that, but I'lljust use that as a example. The71200:52:42,659 --> 00:52:47,949heart is not as efficient. It'sstill pumping, but it's not as 71300:52:48,048 --> 00:52:52,610efficient. Instead of being 90% efficient, maybe it's 80% 71400:52:52,670 --> 00:53:00,010efficient. A sign of heart inefficiency is swelling or 71500:53:00,050 --> 00:53:04,141deeming because that blood is not moving around as fast. Now, 71600:53:04,202 --> 00:53:06,161that could be other reasons for that. I'm not saying that's 71700:53:06,242 --> 00:53:10,019every reason, but that could be one of the signs of that. We 71800:53:10,059 --> 00:53:13,309call that heart failure, or sometimes it's called CHL, 71900:53:13,550 --> 00:53:16,822congestive heart failure. That could be one of the causes. Now 72000:53:16,862 --> 00:53:19,255that could be other reasons and certainly the other reasons why 72100:53:19,295 --> 00:53:22,969people have a deemum from varicose veins, on and on and on72200:53:22,969 --> 00:53:27,128. Now what you were describing is probably early, or certainly 72300:53:27,188 --> 00:53:30,242the early stage of heart failure. There's medication for that 72400:53:31,005 --> 00:53:33,864that helps to treat. Digoxin is one of the main medicines used 72500:53:33,885 --> 00:53:34,347to treat that. 72600:53:38,123 --> 00:53:40,668Speaker 3: It can be when you have a surgery, like with the 72700:53:40,728 --> 00:53:45,061heart, with the bullet around the heart. When they have the 72800:53:45,101 --> 00:53:50,978surgery, then they end up when they say it's a whole air is 72900:53:51,559 --> 00:53:55,748getting in, but they won't do the surgery right then because I73000:53:55,748 --> 00:53:59,744guess it'd be too much for the first heart. Later on, depending73100:53:59,744 --> 00:54:03,112on the situation, they'll go back in. I'm just asking. 73200:54:04,222 --> 00:54:07,070Speaker 2: Well, it depends on but you said it correct it 73300:54:07,112 --> 00:54:10,221depends on the situation and depends on what the 73400:54:10,260 --> 00:54:14,402circumstances are. My point is that I would need more 73500:54:14,443 --> 00:54:17,780information about why do they have a surgeon Basically. 73600:54:18,402 --> 00:54:23,905Exactly what type of surgery do they have? Certainly, one of my 73700:54:23,925 --> 00:54:28,679professors a year once said anybody can operate, but if it's73800:54:28,679 --> 00:54:32,409surgeons or physicians should know when to operate. If the 73900:54:32,469 --> 00:54:36,164judgment part of it it sounds like in this situation not known74000:54:36,164 --> 00:54:41,262all the details that the judgment of the surgical team 74100:54:41,322 --> 00:54:45,702was we can come back and do thisthe next time. I certainly may 74200:54:45,722 --> 00:54:47,606judge not necessarily a heart surgeon, because I did GI 74300:54:47,626 --> 00:54:53,186surgery and sometimes doctors dothat because part of what our 74400:54:53,206 --> 00:55:00,289response was to do was think thefirst principle first do no 74500:55:00,349 --> 00:55:04,487harm, first do no harm. So if wecan do it safely, then we'll go74600:55:04,487 --> 00:55:08,065ahead and do it. If we have to come back a second time or third74700:55:08,065 --> 00:55:11,172time and that's safest, then that's what they do. Any other 74800:55:11,193 --> 00:55:11,393questions? 74900:55:14,130 --> 00:55:26,007Speaker 3: Yes, hold on, I'm going to watch after you, don't 75000:55:26,027 --> 00:55:28,400shout out to Alison Tameis, and I have a quick question. Could 75100:55:28,481 --> 00:55:32,487you briefly explain the relationship between the heart, 75200:55:32,867 --> 00:55:34,471blood pressure and kidney? 75300:55:35,693 --> 00:55:38,688Speaker 2: Okay. Okay, as we mentioned at the heart of the 75400:55:38,728 --> 00:55:41,300month, the pumps are brought around throughout all of the 75500:55:41,340 --> 00:55:45,644bodies, every part of the body. An important part of that is the75600:55:45,644 --> 00:55:48,983kidney. In terms of the blood supply to the kidney, now I'm 75700:55:49,003 --> 00:55:51,855sort of overthinking a lot of this, because there are a lot of75800:55:51,855 --> 00:55:55,746hormones that both the kidney puts out that affect how the 75900:55:55,786 --> 00:55:59,885heart does that, and the kidney's job it's to filter the 76000:55:59,945 --> 00:56:04,603blood, to take impurities out ofthe blood, so that the whole 76100:56:04,664 --> 00:56:09,309system works appropriately. If the kidney is not functioning 76200:56:09,329 --> 00:56:12,980properly for whatever reason, either from some de-noble 76300:56:13,179 --> 00:56:18,251problem or damage or injury, it does not remove those things as 76400:56:18,331 --> 00:56:21,994much. That then makes the heart have to work harder, and I guess76500:56:21,994 --> 00:56:25,619the best way to think about it is everything is connected. If 76600:56:25,679 --> 00:56:29,548every organ system does this jobto the maximum, everything 76700:56:29,590 --> 00:56:33,806works smoothly. But if one system starts to break down, it 76800:56:33,827 --> 00:56:36,880then starts to affect those other systems and that could end76900:56:36,880 --> 00:56:43,358up causing total organ failure.All right, thank you, you're 77000:56:43,378 --> 00:56:43,818welcome. Yes. 77100:56:49,606 --> 00:56:54,331Speaker 4: Dr Chateau, I'm a family of three kids. Two and I 77200:56:54,672 --> 00:57:01,286was older now, but probably my kids are communes and they were 77300:57:01,327 --> 00:57:05,704all involved in stomp-a-toot. Yes, the hardly they went to a 77400:57:05,764 --> 00:57:11,001physical exam. Because it was needed, Right, okay, and even 77500:57:11,021 --> 00:57:14,925the physical was pretty simple it was just coughing, right. I 77600:57:15,047 --> 00:57:19,784understand, that was it. The question is, as a doctor, as a 77700:57:19,965 --> 00:57:26,358primary physician, can you orderan EKG for the kids? Oh, okay. 77800:57:26,599 --> 00:57:30,728Speaker 2: I understand Well, soif you're not a parent or a 77900:57:30,748 --> 00:57:33,782grandparent, you can get your own EKG. I mean, you can take it78000:57:33,782 --> 00:57:39,083to your doctor, which sure you can do that. And let's say, the 78100:57:39,103 --> 00:57:42,081team said, no, we're not going to do that, we just aren't going78200:57:42,081 --> 00:57:44,965to do too much. You can certainly do that independently,78300:57:44,965 --> 00:57:45,806it's not wrong with that. 78400:57:46,489 --> 00:57:51,266Speaker 4: Sure. So the questionis my primary physician can 78500:57:52,630 --> 00:57:54,452order that even though there is no? 78600:57:55,739 --> 00:58:01,327Speaker 2: Yes, you may get intothe insurance thing, because a 78700:58:01,367 --> 00:58:03,541lot of insurance that we're not going to pay for that because 78800:58:03,581 --> 00:58:07,181there's no reason or whatever, whatever, and that may be a 78900:58:07,202 --> 00:58:11,722situation where you just may payout of pocket for it. But most 79000:58:11,804 --> 00:58:14,722of times it depends on how worthit. It's not going to be that 79100:58:14,764 --> 00:58:17,726expensive. It depends how much you're concerned about it. But 79200:58:17,806 --> 00:58:23,722answer the question. Yes, you can do that, absolutely Okay. 79300:58:24,103 --> 00:58:28,213Thank you very much. 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