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Off Topic - Contemplation
- By ROBO_Pop · Posted 6:48 pm
- Journal · 0 replies
- The hot Arizona days bring on a warm wind that trails across the desert stirring up the loose surface sand and filling the atmosphere with fine dust that can strip the chrome off a door knob. It certainly ...
Anoxic Brain Injury
- By lma281 · New reply 5:24 pm
- Journal · 9 replies
- http://youtu.be/amH6n5qBOdY ...
Sports and ICDs - Study Update
- By John_P · Posted 9:22 am
- Discussion in Living with an ICD · 0 replies
- The results of a multi-year study on athletes with ICDs was recently published in Circulation. I think at least a few people here participated in this study. I did too. The summary findings were that ...
SCA
- By deb46740 · Posted yesterday at 4:54 pm
- Discussion in Surviving SCA · 0 replies
- Been 18 months since my sca, it also caused takotsubo im on meds , i used to be fit before all this, now i do house work gardening, i still get tryed easy, my heart feels like it struggles to beat wen ...
Brain Recovery after SCA
- By Bizzyb33 · New reply yesterday at 12:04 pm
- Discussion in Surviving SCA · 17 replies
- Hi, I'm just looking for a bit of encouragement from other survivors in relation to our story. 8 days ago by father in law had a SCA. They estimate he was without oxygen for 4- 7 mins but no one is really ...
my story
- By ckrner · New reply yesterday at 9:25 am
- Journal · 8 replies
- I'm a er nurse who had a sca while at work 12/19/2012. God was with me because if I would have been anywhere else ...
Giving it back
- By runner2002 · New reply yesterday at 8:44 am
- Discussion in Promoting CPR and AEDs · 3 replies
- I'm an EMT in a rural community. Early this morning I was called out for a person with difficulty breathing. Just as soon as we got him on the stretcher he coded. No pulse, no respirations. The AEDS said ...
aloud to do with icd long qt sydrome.
- By brittanyleigh407 · New reply May 20, 2013
- Discussion in Living with an ICD · 12 replies
- my girlfriend is 21 years old last october 2012 she had an icd put in. im still trying to learn everything about it. things i wanna know are can she ride rides? whats the tingling sensation she feels ...
Rib cage pain
- By txwindrider · New reply May 20, 2013
- Discussion in Surviving SCA · 10 replies
- 03/31/2013 I suffered a complete sudden cardiac arrest due to extremely low potassium levels. CPR with paddles was preformed on me. Ever since my right rib cage hurts. Most days it gets better until the ...
SCAA in Michigan meeting coming up!! Details:
- By Leslie98 · Posted May 19, 2013
- Discussion in Surviving SCA · 0 replies
- May 13, 2013 Re: Michigan Chapter Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association We would like to invite you to join us for a meeting of the Michigan Chapter of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association (SCAA). This group ...
Neck & Shoulder Pain
- By MarylandTom · New reply May 19, 2013
- Discussion in Surviving SCA · 3 replies
- My SCA was over 5 years ago and I had an ICD implanted then. Everything has been fine, no issues and visiting my Cardiologist every 3 months. A few months after the SCA we did a nuclear stress test with ...
Five million
- By Brian · New reply May 18, 2013
- Journal · 205 replies
- Dear members, Yesterday, Inspire reached a milestone: five million posts written by members! Each of these posts, and the 700 million words they contain, are a simple measure of how much we all do to ...
ICD has been recomended to me
- By spikeymikey · New reply May 18, 2013
- Discussion in Living with an ICD · 20 replies
- I have had heart disease since 1997 having 3 heart attacks since then My present diagnoes is: Severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction. Moderate mitral regugitation Previous angioplasty. July 2011 ...
my brother suffered a SCA last monday....help!!!
- By cheebum · New reply May 16, 2013
- Discussion in Surviving SCA · 44 replies
- last monday my brother collapsed at work and his heart stopped. luckily there was a district nurse (carrying out a home visit to a nearby tennent) on the scene in around 3 mins and she started CPR until ...
Flecainide tests and pneumonia questions...
- By Jmum · New reply May 16, 2013
- Discussion in Surviving SCA · 3 replies
- Hi all, I have another couple of questions for anyone who might be able to help. Firstly, I'm booked in for a flecainide test/exercise stress test at the same time. I googled the first one, it sounded ...
Pls share your experience on anoxic brain injury due to SCA
- By choulady · New reply May 16, 2013
- Discussion in Surviving SCA · 5 replies
- My husband, a healthy 44 yr-old man, had SCA about three months ago while playing soccer. He was lack of oxygen for about 14min even though a CPR was done by his friends right away. He was in coma for ...
Heart patients have the best of all worlds...
- By ROBO_Pop · New reply May 16, 2013
- Journal · 19 replies
- Some days you just have to realize how very lucky you are. I spent the morning in a darkened room, with a highly attractive young woman, on the bed, and well, let's just say some money changed hands ...
SCA
- By deb46740 · New reply May 15, 2013
- Discussion in Surviving SCA · 6 replies
- HI i had my sca 18months ago, im on beta blockers and the doc still dont no wot caused it, they think long qt, but test come back clear. i had a monitor fitted in my chest witch comes out soon,some days ...
My wife's SCA
- By palmfr · New reply May 15, 2013
- Discussion in Surviving SCA · 8 replies
- My wife had a SCA on the morning of April 26, 2013, 12 days ago, due to a blood clot thrown to her heart/lungs. I gave her some chest compressions and felt a weak pulse and random gasps of breath. She ...
ICD under muscle better for weight lifting?
- By lvliftingweights · Posted May 14, 2013
- Discussion in Living with an ICD · 0 replies
- I do wonder if having the ICD under the muscle protects the wires/leads when lifting weights as opposed to an ICD that is implanted subcutaneous ...
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