In Wake of Hamlin Collapse, Nonprofit Urges Heart Screening for Student-Athletes

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Following the collapse of the Buffalo Bills' Damar Hamlin on Monday Night Football, one nonprofit is urging parents to have their student-athletes screened for heart problems. 

“If you have the opportunity to get your child screened, I mean, it’s just imperative,” Danielle Kelley, co-founder of Jump Start Your Heart, a nonprofit that screens student-athletes for heart problems and defects, told WAFB. “The physicals that are required by the High School Association are not, you know they don’t include the cardiovascular component is just basically a physical, so our screenings include the two diagnostic screenings of the electrocardiogram, or the EKG and the other diagnostic tests, the ultrasound of echocardiogram of the heart.”

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