Chain of Survival Survey

Are you a Chain of Survival participant? By that, I mean have you been party to a cardiac arrest resuscitation attempt? i.e. raised the alarm, performed CPR, used an AED or even just witnessed the event? A poll in our sister support group – Chain of Survival UK shows that professional support is very limited … Read more

The Chain of Survival

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