Latest Defibrillator Podcast Episodes
#050 The good samaritan with Professor Mark Wilson
Life After Cardiac Arrest - July 03, 2020 10:53 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn episode 50, the season 2 finale, Paul talks with Professor Mark Wilson who is qualified in both neurology and pre-hospital care and works at the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and for Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance Trust. He is also the co-founder of the GoodSAM platform and app a...
#049 Saving my father with Mark Holt
Life After Cardiac Arrest - June 26, 2020 13:09 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks to son and lifesaver Mark Holt about his father's cardiac arrest in a remote Lake District pub. Mark takes us through the event that occurred soon after his seemingly fit and healthy father had completed a run and a walk up the Old Man of Coniston. Mark talks about his work as a carer...
#048 Predicting patient outcomes with Professor Tobias Cronberg
Life After Cardiac Arrest - June 19, 2020 11:18 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks with consultant neurologist Professor Tobias Cronberg from Lund University in Sweden on predicting how patients will do after they have had a cardiac arrest. If you listened to episode #044 you will know that Professor Cronberg has a deep interest in brain injury after a cardiac arre...
#047 ICD Owners 101
Life After Cardiac Arrest - June 12, 2020 13:50 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks about a device that many sudden cardiac arrest survivors have implanted, an ICD - Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator. This episode is an introduction (or "101") into the sorts of things that those with an ICD should be aware of. He covers what an ICD is and why you might have one...
#046 Magnesium for ectopics and palpitations with Dr Sanjay Gupta
Life After Cardiac Arrest - June 05, 2020 08:18 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks with consultant cardiologist Dr Sanjay Gupta on a supplement that he's found to be beneficial for cardiac patients who experience ectopics and palpitations. And that supplement is Magnesium and in this episode Dr Gupta takes us through what ectopics and palpitations are and why he rec...
#045 The ultimate survivor with Jonathan Jenkyn
Life After Cardiac Arrest - May 29, 2020 11:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks with the very remarkable Jonathan Jenkyn who has not only survived a sudden cardiac arrest, but also a potentially fatal kidney condition and he has recently beaten an aggressive form of cancer. Jonathan maybe extremely unlucky in having had the Grim Reaper have 3 attempts at him, a...
#044 Post arrest cooling with Professor Tobias Cronberg
Life After Cardiac Arrest - May 22, 2020 11:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks with Professor Tobias Cronberg from Lund University in Sweden who is a consultant in Neurology and has a deep interest in brain injury after a cardiac arrest. Professor Cronberg has been working with cooling technologies for over 20 years and is a senior member of the team behind th...
#043 Tracking cardiac arrest outcomes with Professor Terry Brown
Life After Cardiac Arrest - May 15, 2020 11:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks with assistant Professor Terry Brown on the out of hospital outcomes registry which is a project conducted by The University of Warwrick medical school. Terry takes us through what the registry is and how it fits in internationally (CARES, EURECA, PAROS), what information they collect ...
#042 Visualising the heart with Dr Sanjay Gupta
Life After Cardiac Arrest - May 08, 2020 11:12 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks with consultant cardiologist Dr Sanjay Gupta on a subject that he specialises in, cardiac imaging. Dr Gupta takes us through the various tools that he uses such as echocardiogram, computerised tomography (CT) scanning and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanning. Dr Gupta explains eve...
#041 Happy 5th Birthday Sudden Cardiac Arrest UK
Life After Cardiac Arrest - May 01, 2020 12:51 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings1st May 2020 marks the 5th anniversary of the creation of Sudden Cardiac Arrest UK and Paul takes us through the first 5 years if the group. He talks about the formation and characteristics of the group and thanks some of the key players along the way. Presented and edited by Paul Swindell. Reco...
#040 Question time #1 with Dr Tom Keeble
Life After Cardiac Arrest - April 24, 2020 09:46 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn a follow up of last weeks episode Paul continues his talk with LACA regular consultant cardiologist Dr Tom Keeble. Dr Keeble answers cardiology questions that have been put to him by members of Sudden Cardiac Arrest UK. These include the subjects of beta-blockers, electrolytes such as potassiu...
#039 My Coronavirus (COVID19) experience with Dr Tom Keeble
Life After Cardiac Arrest - April 17, 2020 13:59 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks with LACA regular consultant cardiologist Dr Tom Keeble. Dr Keeble talks about the current COVID-19 pandemic including his personal experiences as both a doctor treating patients and as someone who has has a suspected case of the disease. He also answers some questions from members of ...
#038 The 8 seconds of dying with Jamie Poole
Life After Cardiac Arrest - April 10, 2020 15:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks with cardiac arrest survivor Jamie Poole, an Australian in London. Jamie had his first cardiac arrest when he was just 20 years and outs his survival down to wearing a suit. After Jamie's first close call he gets an ICD and takes us through his experiences of having numerous appropriat...
#037 Coronavirus (COVID19) and the heart with Dr Sanjay Gupta
Life After Cardiac Arrest - April 03, 2020 08:15 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks with consultant cardiologist Dr Sanjay Gupta about his social media contributions and in particular recent videos concerning the current Coronavirus (COVID19) pandemic. Dr Gupta takes us from his low-key start providing valuable information for cardiac patients to now having over 150,0...
#036 Mental health care post cardiac arrest with Liz Sharpe
Life After Cardiac Arrest - March 27, 2020 17:01 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks with mental health counsellor and therapist Liz Sharpe. Through her business Live Your LIfe Therapies, Liz helps people deal with various mental health issues including dealing with trauma. Liz presented a well received practical workshop at the Sudden Cardiac Arrest UK Guinness World ...
#035 Lives before profit with the HeartHero disruptive AED
Life After Cardiac Arrest - March 20, 2020 13:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks with Gary Montague, who went from being in the CIA to the CEO of start-up HeartHero, who are bringing a new Automated External Defibrillator to the market. Gary talks about his childhood which ultimately is the motivation for starting this journey and he runs us through how he has gone...
#034 The smartband helping ICD owners with Kristian Webb
Life After Cardiac Arrest - March 13, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks with Kristian Webb, a Cardiac Physiologist and CEO of LOIS Medical a startup developing a new wearable device for those with an ICD. Kristian tells us of the story of how he got into Cardiac Physiology and his desire to help more people through various mediums such as books (as Carl Ro...
#033 Managing fatigue with Donna Malley
Life After Cardiac Arrest - March 06, 2020 16:02 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks with fatigue expert Donna Malley who is an Occupational Therapist Clinical Specialist at the Oliver Zangwill Centre for brain injury rehabilitation. She has over 30 years of experience and has a keen interest in working with patients who experience fatigue after a brain injury. Amongst...
#032 Thanks for the memory with Professor Barbara Wilson
Life After Cardiac Arrest - February 28, 2020 11:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks with the world-renowned clinical neuropsychologist Professor Barbara Wilson OBE. Amongst her many achievements, Barbara founded the Oliver Zangwill Centre for brain injury rehabilitation and also authored over 200 papers and 30 books on the subject. She has a wealth of experience regar...
#031 The current state of resuscitation with Professor Jerry Nolan
Life After Cardiac Arrest - February 20, 2020 18:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks with Professor Jerry Nolan, who is a consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine at the Royal United Hospital, Bath and Honorary Professor of Resuscitation Medicine at the University of Bristol. He is also the current Chair of the European Resuscitation Council and in 2016 th...
Happy Birthday, Earl Bakken! A Conversation with Earl's dear friend and cohort, Susan "Connecto" Pueschel
Zapgirl and the Podcast - January 10, 2020 19:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTHANKYOU for joining me for this special episode of Zapgirl and the Podcast!!! It's Earl Bakken's 96th Birthday! You might be saying, "Earl Who???" Well... here's a little about him. I'm lucky enough to have met him and am grateful for all of his extraordinary contributions to humanity. He ga...
#030 A life of life saving with Professor Douglas Chamberlain
Life After Cardiac Arrest - December 20, 2019 10:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks with the legendary and world-renowned cardiologist Professor Douglas Chamberlain CBE. Douglas is now aged 88 and started his journey into medicine in 1935 when as a 4-year-old he visited his doctor and saw something that intrigued him. From that point, he takes us through many humorous...
#029 Observations of an SCA survivor with Ted Guloien
Life After Cardiac Arrest - December 12, 2019 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks with cardiac arrest survivor and social psychologist Ted Guloien. Since his arrest during a half-marathon Ted has made many insightful and wise posts relating to his and others recovery. He has recently collated them and published them as a pamphlet (as he calls it) titled "Observation...
#028 Two days that changed my life with survivor Gareth Cole
Life After Cardiac Arrest - December 05, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks with cardiac arrest survivor and Sudden Cardiac Arrest UK stalwart Gareth Cole. Gareth talks openly about his heart attack(s) and cardiac arrest and how it has affected his life. A failed attempt at returning to work, moving house, quitting his job, thoughts of suicide, causing a plane...
#027 Gifts for survivors
Life After Cardiac Arrest - November 30, 2019 17:07 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWith the festive season almost upon us, Paul talks about gift ideas for survivors to aid in their recovery. Whilst survivors could be said to have had the best gift ever, he gives some suggestions that may give them a helping hand. He covers products available at the Sudden Cardiac Arrest UK shop...
#026 Stents and other cathlab procedures with Dr Tom Keeble
Life After Cardiac Arrest - November 23, 2019 11:24 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks with consultant cardiologist Dr Tom Keeble, about what happens in a catheter lab (cathlab). There are rules in the Cathlab, but fortunately it isn't the same as Fight Club so we can talk about them and Dr Keeble takes us through Angiograms, Angioplasty, Stents and the difference betwee...
#025 Why a heart attack and cardiac arrest are not equal
Life After Cardiac Arrest - November 15, 2019 17:10 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks about why a hearts attack and a cardiac arrests are not equal. From a physiological point of view the events are quite different, a heart attack is a plumbing problem whereas a cardiac arrest is an electrical one. It should be noted that both need immediate medical attention but a card...
#024 Spring bok to work with Willem Pretorius
Life After Cardiac Arrest - November 08, 2019 15:14 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks with likeable South African and cardiac arrest survivor Willem Pretorius about his ups and downs post arrest. Like an estimated quarter of survivors he lost his job after his event and struggled to get his life back to an even keel. Willem talks about his struggles, occupational therap...
#023 Survivor Jasmine Wylie on LQTS and being a community leader
Life After Cardiac Arrest - October 31, 2019 07:49 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks with cardiac arrest survivor Jasmine Wylie who is a patient advocate and online community leader. Jasmine talks about her cardiac arrest which was at the young age of 24 and was caused by Long QT Syndrome (LQTS). She also cover her recovery and subsequent work as a patient advocate whe...
#022 Sequelae, common issues post cardiac arrest
Life After Cardiac Arrest - October 23, 2019 11:17 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPaul talks about cardiac arrest sequelae. Sequelae is not a word that many people are familiar with, and even though it is very pertinent to sudden cardiac arrest survivors it’s probably not one they would have heard of before. It simply means a condition which is the consequence of a previous di...