It is in fact, the fourth leading killer in the United States. But there is help for those with the disease. Carondelet Health offers pulmonary rehabilitation at St. Mary's Hospital of Blue Springs and Saint Joseph Health Center. Here's something you don't hear about everyday-a recall of an artificial joint surgically put into a person. But that's the case with a hip-replacement part voluntarily recalled by Sulzer Orthopedics.
Centers applying for accreditation go through a self-study process lasting several months.
AEDs are not new to health care. Recently, a push has been underway to expand the use of AED's beyond the EMS arena to hospital environments and into airports, retail malls, golf courses and athletic facilities. Alzheimers and Wandering Alzheimer's disease is a progressive illness that affects 10 percent of those over the age of 65 and nearly half of those over the age of 85. Fifty-nine percent of those suffering with Alzheimer's will wander during the course of their illness. Wandering behavior includes all those behaviors that carry with them the potential of getting lost.