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Community Education, Management Plans

In the Mind of a Lay Rescuer

Responding to a Cardiac Arrest
My first time performing CPR was emotionally challenging. Even traumatic. So before you go through the same thing, or witness a cardiac arrest, let me share some tips.

A month after I received my first aid training, I responded to my very first cardiac arrest case. I received a notification on the...
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Community Education

Beginning Of The End Of Our DARE App

Let's Begin At The Very Beginning
Cardiac Arrest Victims Fair Poorly Due To Prolonged Downtime
For many years, I realised that many cardiac arrest patients that arrived at the Emergency Department had a an unnecessarily long "downtime", the time between collapse and someone starting CPR or using an AED. This prolonged downtime resulted in death or very...
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Caregiver Education, Community Education, Management Plans

Mindfulness and CPR: Part Five - Rescuers and their Stress
By Han Ming Xuan (with thanks to Dr Jade)There is limited literature about psychological follow-up with lay rescuers who responded to out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. In this article we shall look at the findings from two publications that shed some light on the psychological aspects of being a lay rescuer.
Inside the minds of cardiac arrest...
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Caregiver Education, Community Education, Management Plans

Mindfulness and CPR: Part Four - Family-witnessed resuscitation
By Han Ming Xuan (with thanks to Dr Jade)
Family-witnessed resuscitation
Seeing one’s own family member being subject to chest compressions, AED shocks and IV drugs can be a horrific sight. A 2019 Swiss study reported that of 101 relatives of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, 17% reported symptoms of depression while 13% reported symptoms of anxiety, as assessed...
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26 Jun
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Snapshots of Saturday’s Spontaneous Shenanigans

Posted by Dr. Jade Kua Family History, History, Social History

I usually work on weekends: either in the hospital or on the go, combing through sent folders for tasks I [...]
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16 Jun
4

Featuring Fierce Fashion & Fabulous Food

Posted by Dr. Jade Kua Good Food, Fine Wine, History, Social History

This was a bit of whirlwind week with a 24hour stretch that ended at the Marriott. Those 24 hours were [...]
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11 Jun
4

At The Heart of The Matter

Posted by Dr. Jade Kua Community Education, Management Plans

About Cardiac Arrest Mahna Mahna I grew up watching The Muppet Show. One of my favourite skits is a song-and-dance [...]
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02 Jun
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Of Clan, Family & Alma Matters

Posted by Dr. Jade Kua Family History, History, Social History

Kids Matter Thursday was the last day of May and a sense of panic flooded over me. I realised I [...]
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24 May
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Anatomy of A Letter

Posted by Dr. Jade Kua Community Education, Management Plans

Super excited to have my letter about CPR education published in the Straits Times Forum page yesterday https://www.straitstimes.com/forum/letters-in-print/teaching-the-masses-cpr and thought [...]
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21 May
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Dare to Dream

Posted by Dr. Jade Kua Community Education, Management Plans

Starting DARE Five years ago, my team & I had a dream: to vastly improve survival of victims of cardiac [...]
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13 May
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Of Fear And Courage aka #momlife

Posted by Dr. Jade Kua Family History, Management Plans

The Best Hits Of #momlife It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... When Charles Dickens [...]
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23 Apr
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Weekend Edition With The Usual Suspects

Posted by Dr. Jade Kua History, Social History

PROLOGUE: An Unexpected Letter From A Teenager About My Weekend I received an interesting email about my weekend. This was [...]
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16 Apr
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An Iconic Ball

Posted by Dr. Jade Kua Family History, History, Social History

Take Me To The Ball Game We had a ball with Icon. Singapore's premier Chinese-language society magazine celebrated its 13th [...]
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17 Mar
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Forget Me Not

Posted by Dr. Jade Kua Caregiver Education, Management Plans

Don’t Forget About Dementia I am a fan of Pangdemonium. Before this play about dementia, I had watched several Pangdemonium […]

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