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Home » Archives for Charlotte Pickwick

Charlotte Pickwick

On Boxing Day 2017, my world came crashing down when I suffered a cardiac arrest. My incredible engineer husband performed 8 minutes of CPR on me, this was the week of my 41st birthday, and I had no previous cardiac history.
Although I am an NHS Nurse Manager of 23 years and have been involved in many cardiac arrest situations, I was suddenly the patient and left in a state of hopelessness and feeling very alone. Following a Facebook search some three months after discharge, I found SCA UK, which suddenly made me feel I was no longer alone. Through them, my husband and I had the most incredible support from people who simply got how we felt.
It has been an incredible honour to return the favour and support other people at various stages of their journey, and I am incredibly proud to become a trustee of this charity.

Cardiac arrests happen to patients, not to Nurses

April 1, 2021 by Charlotte Pickwick

I qualified as Nurse in 2000, I have been involved in hundreds of cardiac arrests over the years. Those patients to memory, were old, they had underlying health conditions, I can only recall two arrests where a patient actually survived. On 26/12/2017, at 2:20am, I let out a gasp, this woke my engineer husband Stuart, … Read more

Categories AED, Blog, CPR, Giving Back, Survivor Story 3 Comments

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