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Charlotte and her husband

Tick_stroke 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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Tick_stroke 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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Tick_stroke 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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Tick_stroke Case Study: Dave Cleland

On Saturday Feb 13, 2021, Dave had a heart attack and a week later he went into a state of cardiac arrest – the ultimate medical emergency – his heart had stopped beating.  

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