New YouTube channel launched to support young people diagnosed with cardiac conditions
Leading charity reaches out to young people using social media as a platform to provide essential support and specialist information At the end of Heart Month 2017, a powerful but pragmatic new YouTube channel has been launched by the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) to help support the growing numbers of young people […]
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Why is it important to identify Atrial Septal Defects (ASD)
Will I need to take medicine for my cardiac condition for life?
Will an ICD always protect me from a cardiac arrest?
ICDs like every other intervention that we use, do not offer you 100% protection. However, the reassuring thing is that they’re getting more and more advanced and they will, get out of an irregular rhythm or a death rhythm if you want, someone who has experienced a cardiac arrest. However, ICDs do not give you […]
What medicine will I need to take for my cardiac condition and how long for?
I am gene positive for Long QT. Should I have my children tested?
Skiing with an ICD
I don’t want an ICD. What else can I do to reduce my risk of cardiac arrest?
If you are considered to be at high risk, and an ICD is recommended but you are not keen to have an ICD- and that can be the case in a number of individuals, then depending on the condition that you have been diagnosed with, there may be a number of things that you can […]