Doctor Hans van Schuppen who describes himself as an Anesthesiologist and Resuscitationist tweeted today an impressive statistic coming out of the Dutch resuscitation community… “In Holland, an #AED is placed before ambulance arrival in 65% of all out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases. One-month survival is around 25% (total, all initial rhytms). The AED is getting so … Read more
I woke up in a hospital bed in the CCU ward of the Royal Free Hospital on 22nd December, 1994. My wife, Adele, was sitting beside my bed and I asked her what was happening and where was I? I had arrived at my office the previous morning to collect some files, and had just … Read more
Main text originally posted into the Facebook Group November 2015, epilogue June 2016 and republished with permission Little did I think as I lay in hospital post SCA that one day I would be sitting here today in this place writing this post. At 4am in June 2013 I suffered an SCA whilst sleeping, my … Read more