Sentence examples for heart screen from inspiring English sources

Routine blood tests and the like can be inexpensive, but a complicated heart screen, for example, may be quite costly.

While the England team are tested as a requirement of their participation in Uefa and Fifa tournaments, Beasley said Muamba was given a clean bill of health by a heart screen in August.

She said it cost around £3,500 to heart screen 100 people and that they wanted to raise enough to screen at least 400 people in the south Wales valleys.

Parents who are interested in a heart screening can reach out to their family doctors, or find out about free screenings in their area at Web sites like parentheartwatch.org.org

There has been criticism of transport times and calls for greater heart screening of Premier League footballers.

The BBC reported that Mr Muamba, like most professional footballers, had his heart screened regularly, most recently last summer.

"It really is the combined protocol of history and EKG that provides the more advanced heart screening that we should aim for".

Italian football has long been proud of its heart screening processes – Roberto Mancini had expressed surprise that English systems weren't so stringent after Muamba's collapse – with players obliged to undergo tests at least twice a year.

In the study, which was presented in November at a meeting of the American Heart Association, the subjects, each of whom had completed at least five marathons, underwent an advanced type of heart screening called an electron beam CT scan.

Determined to make heart screening for babies the standard of care, she called the pediatric cardiologists and neonatal specialists at her local children's hospital and told them she wanted to create a pilot program for the screening.

The patchy adoption of the heart screening, known as the pulse oximetry test, highlights larger questions about public health and why good ideas in medicine take so long to spread and when we should legislate clinical practice.