Month: May 2021

All sudden cardiac arrests are caused by some preceding disease, disorder, or circumstance, examples of each include atherosclerosis, Brugada syndrome and drug overdose, respectively. For some sudden cardiac arrests, the exact cause is a mystery, due to the current limitations of medical science and forensics, and the lag in time between when the event occurred … [Read more…]

If I still consider myself a survivor of a sudden cardiac arrest, have I survived? There at two fundamental dimensions related to surviving a sudden cardiac arrest: the physical and the emotional. Both are highly intertwined. When we say we have survived a sudden cardiac arrest, we are mostly referring to the former, the physical. … [Read more…]