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2025 ERC Resuscitation Guidelines Open for Public Comment: A Survivor’s Perspective

2025 European Resuscitation Council guidelines open for public comment

The European Resuscitation Council (ERC) has announced that several chapters of the highly anticipated 2025 Resuscitation Guidelines are now open for public comment. This represents a significant opportunity for healthcare professionals, survivors, co-survivors and the public to influence best practices that will impact resuscitation care across Europe and the UK. As a cardiac arrest survivor … Read more

Searching for Answers: A Small Victory?

by Paul Swindell

Sudden Cardiac Arrest UK campaigning to clarify cardiac arrest vs heart attack on the NHS website

On a rain-spattered Tuesday morning in January, I found myself composing yet another email about the difference between a heart attack and a cardiac arrest. As we journey with our cause and SCA UK celebrates its tenth anniversary, I’ve periodically attempted to correct this fundamental misconception on the National Health Service’s website. Type “cardiac arrest” … Read more

Do AEDs go to bed? The Circadian Dilemma

by Paul Swindell

Public access defibrillator availability at night and the circadian dilemma

The town of Benfleet, home to Sudden Cardiac Arrest UK, on the Essex Riviera, is perhaps not the first place one would expect to find a nexus of cutting-edge medical debate. Yet, like many towns and cities across the UK, it grapples with a quiet but pressing concern: the accessibility of automated external defibrillators (AEDs). … Read more