In addition to providing information and support to those affected by unexpected and sudden cardiac arrest, SCA UK would like to help medical professionals improve their understanding of patients’ needs and the service they provide.

Publications

We have produced many resources that can be downloaded or self-printed. We also have an overview leaflet for distribution in your facility. Please see the publications page for more details on downloading and ordering.

Meet Up’s

We have held annual meet-ups for the past few years and would happily invite interested medical professionals to attend.

For Dentists

If you work in dentistry, you may like to read our page on dental treatment, which details several issues that should be considered when dealing with a patient after cardiac arrest.

For GPs

Many survivors sustain an acquired brain injury whilst in a state of hypoxia, and often, it goes undiagnosed. Headway, the brain injury organisation, has produced an excellent guide for GPs, which should help develop a better relationship with their patients. You can download it here.

For all interested in cardiac arrests

The Resuscitation Council (UK) promotes high-quality, scientific resuscitation guidelines that are applicable to everybody and contribute to saving lives through education, training, research, and collaboration.

The Resus Room is a free medical education site whose content centres on the care of patients in and around The Resus Room. At its heart, it is a podcast-based site that can be accessed via the webpage or iTunes.

RAGE is an audio podcast created by a team of emergency physicians, intensivists, and retrievalists that brings an irreverent and educational ‘real world’ perspective to current research, core topics and controversies in critical care.

RAGE features panel discussions, interviews with experts, shout-outs, and insights from #FOAMcc and the wider critical care-iverse, as well as various quirky segments on medical history, trivia, and more.

DutchResus is a blog on resuscitation by Hans van Schuppen, MD, an anesthesiologist from the Netherlands who is passionate about resuscitation. He hopes to provide interesting information on resuscitation, emergency anaesthesia, airway management, prehospital care, crisis resource management, and all kinds of other interesting things he comes across.

Research

Care After REsuscitation (CARE) Project by Dr Tom Keeble at the Essex Cardio-Thoracic Centre. This was based on this European study by Véronique Moulaert.

Cardiac Arrest Registries – Worldwide initiatives to analyse cardiac arrests and the medical response to them

Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes – Dr Gavin Perkins of Warwick Medical School

Consensus paper on out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (England) – Resus Council

Post Cardiac Arrest Care for Kids – Study by University of Birmingham