heart attack

February is American Heart Month and health experts are putting a spotlight on cardiovascular diseases and the tools available to all Wyomingites to help save lives. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in Wyoming and high blood pressure is one of the leading precursors of life-changing events like heart attack or stroke.

The new guidelines include using a single streamlined "Chain of Survival" for all cardiac arrest scenarios and an increased emphasis on both the quality of compressions and delivering rescue breaths.

A new 7 million dollar project is aimed at improving heart attack care in Wyoming.The effort is being funded by the American Heart Association and the…