Worked in Women's Health. Interests in the Heart, EM Services, Nursing and Midwifery. Actively Promote CPR and use of AEDs • Humour, Music, Art and the Garden
Days after our baby girl was born, I kissed my wife goodbye before surgery and neither of us knew if she would be coming back.
We just wanted her to survive—10 months later, she's in the
#Wimbledon
final.
@serenawilliams
will be holding a trophy again …
This shows how suddenly a cardiac arrest can be and how needful that everyone knows
#CPR
#AED
and can help save a life. It might not be a hockey player you save it could be your loved one.💔
😉New Apgar(t) Score to Check Troponins 1 & 5 Minutes After Birth🤱
‘By adding 1 and 5 minute troponins after birth, it will ensure the baby becomes quickly acclimated to what will become a lifetime of unnecessary troponin testing.’
#CardioTwitterHumour
🇨🇦Brothers, age 7 and 10, perform CPR to save grandmother in cardiac arrest👏
These two young boys knew
#CPR
and with guidance from the 🚑 dispatcher carried out chest compressions for 10 minutes until the paramedics arrived & saved their grandmother. 💔⤵️
Our words and our tweets are like footprints. They can make powerful impressions. Use your language and craft sentences that empower and build. This way we can all build upon each other's words and reacher higher ground.
#WednesdayWisdom
#OneHumanity
#OneLove
#GoldenHearts
#IAM
Premier Inn installs defibrillators at all hotels 💔
“All of the group’s 800
@premierinn
now feature an
#Defibrillator
(AED) machine, for use in the event of a guest or passer-by suffering a cardiac arrest.”
👏Well done
#heartsafe
#CPR
👏Over 3,000 people to get free CPR training in Dubai 💔
Encouraging to see the global trend for training everyone in
#CPR
. It is something everyone should be able to do, save a life from cardiac arrest.
All gyms should have a
#Defibrillator
available for
#CPR
💔
#AEDs
should be widely available everywhere as quite simply as you can see they save lives. ⤵️
A young woman who suffered a cardiac arrest while working out is calling for simple, life-saving devices to be rolled out in every gym. The 21-year-old was kept alive by quick-thinking staff.
#7News
This was my elderly father’s cat. He never left his side. He even visited him when he had to move into a care home. A truer friend he couldn’t have had.. 🐈🥰
#Caturday
Taxi driver buys £1,000 defibrillator for his car to help save lives 💔🚕👏
A lifesaving act of
#kindness
making his taxi
#CPR
ready for passengers or anyone he witnesses collapsed in cardiac arrest along his routes.
#Altruism
👏It’s official 🇺🇸Arizona high schools now required to teach students
#CPR
💔
This is how it should be everywhere with the bold step of teaching all children how to save a life with the simple technique of chest compressions and use of a
#Defibrillator
My parents fought for Britain during WWll, my father in the RAF, my mother in the ATS Signal Corps. They met and married in the midst of it all and lived into their 90’s and 80’s respectively. Their altruism, strength and perseverance has been a continual inspiration.
#VEDay2020
Michigan teen who 'died on court' and saved by
#AED
surprises teammates 💔
This is what being able to do
#CPR
enables. A young man brought back from the brink of cardiac arrest and given the chance to live out his life. Be ready to help and learn CPR.
Well it had to happen. Two things we’ve managed to avoid, Covid for three years and still are. However our
efforts to avoid using an air fryer, went out of the window this Christmas thanks to our son and grandson! He tells us it will be life changing. 🙈😂
Every secondary school in Scotland to teach
#CPR
💔🏴
This is life-saving news for everyone across Scotland. If someone collapses with a cardiac arrest it will be Increasingly likely that there will be a bystander nearby to help revive them.
Benefits of
#cardiac
rehabilitation;
➡️26% reduced cardiovascular mortality
➡️18% reduced hospital admissions
➡️13% reduced all-cause mortality
➡️Reduced risk of further events
➡️Improved quality of life Why do only 1/2 of patients attend?❤️
👍Every time a
#defibrillator
for
#CPR
is installed in a community like this it increases the chances of saving a life from Cardiac Arrest. The rest is up to you and why everyone from school children upwards needs to learn the lifesaving skill of CPR 💔💚
“I’m a Cardiac Nurse, and I Ignored My Heart Attack Symptoms for 6 Days”💔
A heart attack can occur at any age to anyone at any time.
Never dismiss signs of a heart attack. Chest/jaw/arm pressure, pain discomfort, nausea, sweating, lightheaded are common.
12-year-old 🇺🇸girl uses CPR to save baby brother who fell in septic tank.
'Dispatchers instructed the girl on how to give
#CPR
to her brother. She was able to clear the boy's airway & begin chest compressions.' This is why CPR should be taught in schools
@StonedMisfit
@guccitytay
@mashoodchishti4
@LoganPaul
That must have been incredibly difficult for you to do. However the outcome might have been different and his life saved and you may never know.
#CPR
is only chance anyone has in cardiac arrest and better to try than not, you were exceptionally brave to try
#Respect
💔
Language is crucial in healthcare. 'Our words have power, our words have a profound effect on others. Words can cause pain, words can cut, words can cause real wounds, words can tear you down. Talking insensitively can leave other people feeling insecure or somehow diminished.'
BBC Sport - Glenn Hoddle: Sound engineer who used
#CPR
says he is 'no hero'
"I was just trying to preserve life." Bystander who started chest compressions also used a
#defibrillator
to help revive the man. The ultimate act of
#kindness
💔
“How to Treat Cardiac Arrest - Vikram Verma Heart Attack on Bike”💔
Off duty firefighter and nurses waste no time in starting
#CPR
saving the cyclists life.
Stranger helps bring man back from the dead after 45 minutes with
#CPR
💔
Bystander didn’t hesitate to start CPR he learned at work on someone he didn’t know. The man got his life back & his wife her husband. Learn and use CPR skills it simply saves lives.
🇨🇦Mother, 15 year old daughter and son all helped conduct CPR on newborn baby during her unexpected labour with triplets🤰🤱
Proof again that knowledge of
#CPR
can save lives of any age and in any circumstances. Make sure your family can all do CPR 💔
Children in England to be taught
#CPR
and aid for common injuries
💔
‘Secondary school pupils to learn life-saving skills and
#defibrillator
use from 2020 in roll-out of government plans’
One of the most heartfelt gifts I’ve received today is this “pre-loved” old fellow. It’s was given by someone who barely has enough to make ends meet let alone give a present. My heart is full.. 🥲🎄
They came, they saw, they conquered! An escaped herd of bullocks descended on the garden last night! Their foraging turned up nothing and they decimated my Poppy patch! I hope the video works it’s worth the watch!🐮🐄☺️
“Daughter struggles to keep father alive with help from 999 call handler.”
Without
#dispatcher
instruction on how to do
#CPR
her father would probably have died. 💔This is why everyone should know how to do CPR as it could be your loved one who needs it
@ww2finesthour
@sallyacb275
My father was in the RAF. He was a navigator in Lancasters flying mainly over the North Sea and Scandinavian coast. He ended up in the Medical Services before demobilisation at the end of the World War II.
”Paramedics: Londoners must learn how to use defibrillators” Not just Londoners, EVERYONE must learn to do
#CPR
and use
#Defibrillators
. It quite simply saves lives and even school children are learning to do it.💔💚
Firefighter Experiencing Cardiac Arrest Saved by Defibrillator He Had Just Installed at the Station 💔
This is why
#Defibrillators
need to be everywhere. Cardiac arrest can happen anywhere to anyone any age. Everyone must know
#CPR
& be able to act quickly
A CAMEL’S NOSE is a seemingly innocuous act or decision that will have grave consequences later. The term supposedly derives from an old Arab proverb that warned that if a camel put its nose under the edge of a tent, it would be impossible to stop the rest of it from following.
My brother had to have his beloved ‘Gus’, age 17, put down today. The old boy was like a member of the family and loved by all. He’d visit my father at the nursing home and brought him such joy. We will miss him sorely..
“Grandad only survived heart attack because he was at Old Firm
clash”💔
“They did
#CPR
on his chest there & then — it cracked his ribs. He’s feeling very lucky.”
After his heart re-started he was taken to the
@JubileeHospital
Cardiac catheterisation lab.
‘When his teammate stopped breathing, this teen helped save his life.’ They knew and started
#CPR
using an
#AED
quickly 💔 “There was no down time for Jake. We had compressions immediately, and I had the AED on him within a minute." A life was saved.
Bystander steps forward to give CPR to woman in cardiac arrest, saving her life. It’s something everyone should be able to do without hesitation. It could have been your loved one. Could you have helped?💔”Hero saves woman who collapsed at shopping centre”
Met a friend today that I don’t see too often. Discovered that they’d had a cardiac arrest a few months ago and survived as spouse knew
#CPR
. Living remotely they had no nearby AED and had to continue CPR until paramedics arrived with an
#AED
.💔 Ensure your community has one.
If you witness someone collapse from a Cardiac Arrest don’t hesitate to act. Every moment matters and starting
#CPR
quickly, using a defibrillator are vital for any hope of them surviving. 💔 ⤵️
In the event of a
#cardiacarrest
here's something to think about.
Anyone can use a defibrillator
#aed
Simply, open the lid and or switch it on.
It'll tell you what to do from there.
Don't know where one is......look out for these signs.
#AEDsSaveLives
Bystanders less likely to perform
#CPR
on women: 💔
Studies have shown this disparity in women being less likely to be helped when they have a cardiac arrest. Simply a life is a life male or female just start CPR & hope you can help revive them
#SaveALife
Something of a miracle, the Wisteria we planted just a year or so ago has blossomed! It may only be a single flower at the moment but it’s beyond our expectations! 🌸😊☀️
Wonderful to be greeted this morning by the first bloom of the Flame Azalea. We transplanted it from my mother’s garden and it never fails to light up the garden. ☺️
This is why EVERYONE knowing and giving
#CPR
is so important. 💔💚
This mans life was saved by someone who could step in and revive him enough before
@Scotambservice
could get him to hospital. Look at him now, living out his life. Be bold learn/Know CPR and step forward to help.
The first trial of food cooked in the Air Fryer has been a rave success! A side of brussels sprouts with potatoes seasoned and with crushed pine nuts! ☺️