New to the Site and Looking for Advice

Hello All, I'm very grateful to have been accepted to this site and hope to find some advice from those who have been here longer. My mother suffered a sudden cardiac arrest in 2008. By the grace of God and a great amount of luck, she's still here with us. She surrvived with minimal brain damage… Read More

How to maximize your chance of surviving a cardiac arrest.

Reflect for a moment that the lowest save rate for cardiac arrest victims is on a farm and the highest is at the Phoenix, AZ airport. It's not that farms are unhealthy and airports are not. Just look to the AHA chain of survival the CARES project, the Denmark study, and the Phoenix results for the… Read More

You CAN make a difference!

My sympathy to the family and friends. This tragedy underscores the urgent need for having an AED and at least two trained persons at every athletic contest or practice. You can help by writing to the school authorities and advocating this. You can help even more by raising the funds to support… Read More

Therapeutic Hypothermia works wonders.

WRIGTHSVILLE BEACH, NC (WECT) – James Glasgow, 36 of Mt. Pleasant, SC, collapsed earlier this month while running in the Wrightsville Beach Marathon. He went down less than a mile from the finish line and was given a 5-8 percent chance of survival. "I was a hundred yards away from the finish line… Read More

Denmark gets 4x improvement in SCA survival with Bystander CPR, AED

Widespread CPR training saves livesMarch 26, 2012 in Cardiology A nationwide effort in Denmark to increase the number of people trained in CPR led to an increase in bystander CPR and ultimately contributed to increased cardiac arrest survival rates in that country, according to research presented… Read More

When you get someone back, keep them on their back until the ambulance arrives. **

Man Dies During Flag Football Game at W-L High School by ARLnow.com A 22-year-old man died Saturday after collapsing while playing football at Washington-Lee High School. The man collapsed at about 5:40 p.m. during a flag football game. Police say witnesses immediately began treating the man, who… Read More

How many times do we have to see this before half of us get trained?

Lightning hits softball player, eyewitness runs to do CPR on her Posted: Mar 16, 2012 4:29 PM EDT Updated: Mar 16, 2012 5:07 PM EDT By Valerie Chin Seymour, IN (WDRB) -- A Seymour High School student is struck by lightning during softball practice, but the quick action by a chiropractor helped save… Read More

Maybe he should ask his cardiologist about implanted cardio defibrillators?

Wife's Knowledge of CPR Helps Save Her Husband a Second Time By Andrew Meacham Tampa Bay Times Published: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 7:30 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 7:30 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG Barbara Sweda knew something was wrong with her husband Saturday morning. Gerald Sweda,… Read More

We have got to get over several bad assumptions...

You might be amazed to find how many people feel that cardiac arrests happen only to older folks, that there's really not much you can do - most of the people who arrest stay dead, and that they will never see a sudden cardiac arrest happen.I encounter that all the time. First of all, hundreds of… Read More

Impaired family functioning

My brother suffered a cardiac arrest on March 20, 2011. On March 25th he suffered another 10...yes ten arrests. He was in the cardiac ICU at the time, and thankfully the staff responded quickly to his needs. He had to shocked 150 times during this crisis. After this happened an Impella device was… Read More