Are you someone who beat the odds and survived sudden cardiac arrest? Would you like to help other victims survive? Join the SCA Survivor Registry™, the nation’s first online registry for sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) survivors.

By joining the registry you can find others who have been through similar life-changing events, share their experiences, and help one another in the healing process.

In beating the odds, a survivor has already joined a special and unique group of people. Their stories are eerily similar—a savior who performed CPR, a layperson or professional with a defibrillator, and an ICD implanted for life.

You will find they are eager to meet and talk with you, since you have become one of the family.

Paul Beauregard – Plainstown, NH – 69 at the time of the event (May 2004)

The story of Paul Beauregard’s sudden cardiac arrest could almost qualify as a macabre Halloween tale.

Paul was working part time for a Plainstown, NH funeral director. He was out on a job and had just finished placing the body in a hearse when he walked back to the curb to talk to a police officer who was on the scene. It was then that everything went black and the 69-year-old retired section manager for Raytheon collapsed at the scene.

Fortunately, the officer had an AED in his cruiser and went to work getting Paul’s heart back into a steady rhythm before he was taken by ambulance to the hospital.

“That’s the only reason I was saved,” Paul said, “because (the police) were there and they had a defibrillator.”