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Picture of Benjamin Culff - survivor of cardiac arrest

Tick_stroke Case Study: Benjamin - "If you can set up an iPhone, you can set up a defib"

When 17-year-old Benjamin Culff went to work on 13 August 2017, he wasn’t expecting to wake up in hospital. Were it not for the quick thinking of his work colleagues, he might not have woken up at all.

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Rebecca running

Tick_stroke Woman who survived four cardiac arrests on signing up to the ReSPECT process

Rebecca Langley was just 30 when she was diagnosed with stage three bowel cancer in 2017, needing surgery to remove her colon and four tumours.

But a severe reaction to the chemotherapy, given six weeks after the surgery, led to Rebecca having two seizures and a series of four cardiac arrests, landing her in intensive care for seven days fighting for her life. 

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Image of Tony with running buddies who saved his life

Tick_stroke Teamwork made Tony's heart work

When Tony Comber collapsed with a cardiac arrest while out running in February an extraordinary lucky streak saved his life.

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Tick_stroke The CPR Superhero at Home

In August, dad James Franklin, 45, had to perform CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) on mum Emma, 44, when she collapsed from a sudden cardiac arrest at their home in Southampton.  Now their eight-year-old Sonner has invented a new superhero after his dad helped save his mum’s life – CPR Man. Read their story and find out why CPR matters to them. 

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