Ted Guloien
Ted Guloien is a social psychologist from Toronto who experienced cardiac arrest during a half-marathon in November 2013, collapsing 250 metres from the finish line. He compiled his reflections into a self-published pamphlet for survivors and brings both professional insight and lived experience to his writing.
Plumbing vs Electrical Heart Problems
Surely no one would mistake a clogged laundry room sink with not having lights or power in the laundry room. Similarly, a heart attack is like a plumbing problem and a cardiac arrest an electrical problem. Simple, right? Under certain conditions, however, having a plugged laundry room sink drain can result in a power failure ...
The Search for Meaning
Given the low probability of surviving an out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest, who wouldn’t feel somehow special to survive? Survivorship Bias Yet, as survivors, we tend to overlook the broader perspective of sudden cardiac death as we focus on our specialness. Turns out this is a cognitive bias that’s been labelled “survivorship bias“. It’s not an ...
Ten Signs You Might be Getting Over Your Cardiac Arrest
So, you’ve had a sudden cardiac arrest. For you and many of us, this marks the beginning of long-term medical interventions and therapies designed to diagnose and treat the underlying cause or causes of this traumatic heart-stopping event. But while the family doctors, pharmacologists, cardiologists and/or electrophysiologists are working to ensure our cardiac systems are ...