One participant receives a heart screening within a medical tent.
The free event will be on Sunday, April 14, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Folsom High School, 1655 Iron Point Road, Folsom. It’s for ages 12 to 25.
The screening takes about 40 minutes to complete. It includes a cardiac risk assessment, an electrocardiogram (EKG) and a physician review.
The EKG is a simple and painless test that records the heart’s electrical activity using small sticky electrode patches attached to the skin of the chest. Structural and electrical heart issues, which can cause sudden cardiac arrest in young people, can often be detected in an EKG.
The screening aims to prevent sudden cardiac arrest risk in children and young adults. Annual physical examinations and sports pre-participation physicals can miss about 85 to 90% of issues that can cause sudden cardiac arrest in youth.
This is the fourth time that Project ADAM Sacramento, UC Davis Health and Kyle J. Taylor Foundation have partnered to host a screening at a Sacramento-area high school since 2022. In total, 1,122 young people have been screened. Of those 24 were identified with serious abnormalities, including Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, bicuspid aortic valves, Long QT and ectopic atrial bradycardia.
