Practical information and guidance for cardiac arrest survivors — covering ICDs, medications, driving, returning to work, travel and everyday life with a heart condition.
Our ICD expert friend, Doug has put together a few tips on what to do if you have an implantable device and it activates its patient alert features, Ed You’re sitting enjoying your day when suddenly your implanted device vibrates or beeps. This goes on for 10-30 seconds, then it stops. What should you do? … Read more
It’s World Mental Health Day today… so thought I’d share some tips on getting shot of anxiety, plus why they work! When we are in a place of anxiety we are filled with adrenaline, which makes us breathe a bit faster and more shallow. Your brain scans your body and notices you are breathing differently. … Read more
Each year about 30,000 people receive resuscitation for an Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) in the United Kingdom. Only one in every twenty people that have a cardiac arrest survive to go home from the hospital. There are a few key steps that can help to improve survival from cardiac arrest, and these have been formulated … Read more