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Case Study: Dan - "CPR varies vastly between an adult and a baby"
Noah Swales was just three days old when he died from bacterial meningitis on 21 May 2017, despite having shown none of the usual symptoms. On a spring day, Noah’s parents had introduced the newborn to family in the North East when tragedy struck.
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Case Study: Charlotte - 'Cardiac arrests happen to patients, not to Nurses'
On Boxing Day 2017, Charlotte’s world came crashing down when she suffered a cardiac arrest. Her incredible engineer husband performed eight minutes of CPR.
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GoodSAM Cardiac Responder: Samantha Sharp
“This was the first time I had attended a cardiac arrest, so I was a bit nervous, but I took a deep breath and reminded myself that someone needed me quickly. Every minute without CPR decreases the chance of survival by 10%.”
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Case Study: Asad - "From the football pitch to a coma in a matter of hours"
When Asad met his work friends to play a 90 minute kickabout, he wasn’t expecting to wake up in hospital. Were it not for the presence of two hospital medics, he might not have woken up at all.
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