Surviving & thriving after a cardiac arrest (In-person)

About this event

Join Professor Thomas Keedle for an evening exploring how we improve outcomes of the deadliest condition.

This event takes place on our Chelmsford campus. You can also join us virtually.

Cardiac arrest is the ultimate medical event. The heart suddenly stops effectively beating, and without prompt recognition, activation of the “chain of survival”, and aggressive treatment of the cause - a patient will die within a few minutes. As an interventional cardiologist (IC) I have always believed that in association with pre-hospital providers, emergency department and intensive care colleagues we (IC) should be at the centre of cardiac arrest care treating reversible cardiac causes and shock.

What I have also learned is that surviving a cardiac arrest is only the start of the journey, and that to thrive requires rehabilitation and a dedicated programme of recovery for both the survivor, the rescuers and the co-survivors (next of kin / family). Over the last 10 years I have led the UK efforts to standardise and improve cardiac arrest survival and survivorship and in my inaugural Professorial lecture I will tell the story of a decade of improvement and discovery.

About our speaker

Professor Thomas Keeble is an interventional cardiologist with a specialist interest in cardiac arrest, and heart attack medicine.

He has been instrumental in cardiac arrest clinical trial in the UK and globally, and has pushed the cardiac arrest survivorship agenda since he set up the UK first Care After REsuscitation (CARE) clinic in 2014 at the Essex Cardiothoracic centre, which is seen as a global exemplar.

He is Chair of the BCIS out of hospital cardiac arrest focus group, which has championed the formation of cardiac arrest centres of excellence for treatment and follow up of cardiac arrest. This work has doubled the survival from cardiac arrest in the East of England region over the last 3 years by bringing the right cardiac arrest patient to the right hospital first time.

He is a founding trustee of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest UK peer to peer support group, with which he hosted the Guiness world record for the largest number of cardiac arrest survivors in one place in Essex CTC (127 survivors in 2018). He is a member of the RC(UK) committee, and is an NHS England advisory board member for the treatment of cardiac arrest. He has a passion for implementing novel pathways of care and testing their effectiveness to improve outcomes for patients.

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