Saturday, October 29 at ACS

Heart Screening for ACS Teens

Prompted by stories of promising young athletes and apparently health teens dying of undetected heart ailments, Ultrascan, Inc. has teamed up with Children’s Cardiovascular Medicine of Marietta to offer an affordable, safe screening program to schools, sports teams and other organizations interested in saving lives.

“Heart Screens for Teens” will be testing students on Saturday, October 29, at Arlington Christian School. In reaction to the recent sudden heart-related death of Ryan Boslet, a 17-year old Alpharetta athlete, Ultrascan recruited top cardiologists and echo technologists to work with its’ state-of-the-art mobile ultrasound units screening students’ hearts and detecting potentially fatal conditions that cannot be identified during
routine physicals.

The echocardiogram exam is simple, safe, requires no preparation and takes only 10 to 15 minutes. A registered technologist used an ultrasound unit, which utilizes high frequency sound waves to create images of the heart and to determine how well blood flows through the organ. The confidential results are analyzed by a board-certified pediatric cardiologist and given to parents. Any child found to have an abnormal test
result will be referred to their pediatrician for specific recommendations and medical follow-up.

Normally, the cost of this echocardiogram can range anywhere from $900 to $1500 and is usually not covered by insurance. “Heart Screens for Teens” will provide the service for $58.

Monday through Friday, Ultrascan is servicing over 100 hospitals and physican offices in Georgia and is the exclusive provider of echocardiography for all Emory Heart locations in Metro Atlanta and North Georgia. Most of the Ultrascan equipment is idle on the weekends, allowing the company to provide the equipment and their highly trained technologists on Saturdays at a drastically reduced price to the “Heart Screens for Teens” program.

For more information on the program, call Ultrascan at 770-813-8323 or visit the website at www.heartscreensforteens.com to view an informational video.

The screening at Arlington is open to anyone ages 10-20. The school is located at 4500 Ridge Road, just off Highway 92 between Douglasville and Fairburn. Please contact Mrs. Janet Moroy, 770-964-9871 or 770-306-3631 for an appointment time.