We’ve been approached by NHS England in collaboration with GoodSAM to find some survivors for a promotional video they will be making. Read on if you’re interested in helping out… Background We know that our survival rate for out of hospital cardiac arrest is at around 8.6% which is significantly lower than for populations in … Read more
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
Each year about 30,000 people receive resuscitation for an Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) in the United Kingdom. Only one in every twenty people that have a cardiac arrest survive to go home from the hospital. There are a few key steps that can help to improve survival from cardiac arrest, and these have been formulated … Read more