Posted on 02/17/2023 3:14:00 PM PST by nickcarraway
A 30-year-old was having lunch when she collapsed. She'd had a cardiac arrest.
-Katrysha Gellis was 30 when she experienced a sudden cardiac arrest. Photo courtesy Living Proof CPR Training -Katrysha Gellis had two cardiac arrests in her 30s. -One in 10 survive sudden cardiac arrest. This rate doubles or triples when victim is given CPR. -Cardiac arrest can be traumatic, and require therapy to help process the emotions.
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A 30-year-old woman was left fighting for her life after her heart suddenly stopped beating.
In October 2015, Katrysha Gellis was at work when she started to feel unwell. Almost immediately she collapsed and her heart stopped working. She'd had a sudden cardiac arrest.
Gellis told BBC "Heath Check": "My colleagues were very quick to call 911 and then start chest compressions.
"They started pressing on my chest and that pushed the blood around my body and kept oxygen going to my brain so it was essentially keeping me alive."
Shortly afterwards, a team of firefighters picked up the 911 call and arrived on site. They used an automated external defibrillator to restart her heart.
Gellis had just turned 30 and was a healthy person with no known heart conditions in the family. She later found out that an arrhythmia — an abnormal heart rhythm — had caused her heart to stop beating, but doctors couldn't find an official cause.
According to Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation, one in 10 survive sudden cardiac arrest and it can affect people of any age who may seem perfectly healthy.
When bystanders give immediate CPR, survival rates of SCA victims can double or triple, the foundation states.
Following her cardiac arrest, Gellis was fitted with a device called an implantable cardioverter defibrillator that would shock her heart back into the correct rhythm if needed.
Doctors told her that although it would be unlikely for her to experience another cardiac arrest, the ICD was there to protect her should it happen again, she told Insider.
Gellis had another cardiac arrest years later Over six years later, in January 2022, Gellis was at home when she had another arrhythmia and collapsed. The ICD shocked her heart into restarting while her husband called 911. She'd had another cardiac arrest.
Unlike with her first cardiac arrest, Gellis had vivid memories of the whole event, leaving her feeling traumatized.
She told Insider: "I think like any trauma, it just takes some time to heal and to process." With the help of a therapist, she started to process the emotions and a year on she feels like she's in a strong place.
Gellis said that experiencing cardiac arrest — whether it be yourself or witnessing as a bystander — can be a traumatic experience and there's a gap in care for survivors as well as their families and bystanders.
The symptoms of a cardiac arrest and a heart attack are different
After Gellis had her first cardiac arrest, she became a certified CPR instructor and has shared her story to raise awareness. She said that it is important to know the signs of a cardiac arrest, which is different from a heart attack.
According to the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation, when a person is having a heart attack they are awake and their heart will continue to beat.
Heart attacks happen when blood supply to the heart is reduced or blocked, and can cause discomfort in the center of the chest that lasts more than a few minutes or goes away and comes back, the foundation says.
A cardiac arrest is when the heart stops beating altogether.
The foundation says that with a sudden cardiac arrest, victims won't be responsive or breathing normally and will need CPR and to be treated with an AED.
Gellis said: "If they're unconscious and not breathing normally, then you call, push, and shock." This refers to calling 911 and requesting an AED, pushing on the chest and starting CPR, and shocking them with an AED.
She said: "Anybody, no matter who you are, can empower themselves with knowledge to be confident to react."
CPR classes can help people feel comfortable in emergency situations, rather than getting overwhelmed, Gellis said. She added that people don't need qualifications to perform CPR and use an AED in an emergency situation.
The American Heart Association provides details of local CPR courses across the US.
Sudden death has long been a diagnosis. when someone dies suddenly at home it can be very difficult to pinpoint a cause Most are assumed to be cardiac but you usually don’t know for sure. The clinical importance is those who have a relative with sudden death are at higher risk of sudden death themselves.
Sometimes the cause is figured out in retrospect when another family member is diagnosed with a heritable condition. I have 2 friends with vascular ehlers danlos which predisposes to fatal vascular ruptures at a young age. Both had one or more relatives with sudden death syndrome My friends diagnosis has shed light on their relatives deaths.
And have you not seen the last two years of people developing all kinds of cardio problems leading to heart attacks and blockages from the mrna vax clot shots?
She had long QT syndrome, a heart signaling disorder that causes “fast, chaotic heartbeats,” according to the Mayo Clinic. The National Organization for Rare Diseases estimates that about 1 in 2,000 people are born with the condition.
Go read another thread about another woman who had a cardiac arrest:
A 30-Year-Old Was Having Lunch When She Collapsed. She’d Had a Cardiac Arrest.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4131851/posts
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and long QT syndrome leads to an especially nasty arrhythmia called torsades de pointes or torsades for short. It is very difficult to resuscitate someone with it even when it happens in front of you in an ICU
The news media should ask the AI bot to figure out the cause of “died suddenly”.
She’s kinda hot.
Of course I have seen them but the two articles here only show that Sudden Cardiac arrest predates the vaccines, not that the vaccines cause it.
Maybe it’s a government-media ploy, see, SCA has always been a thing.
Let’s see proper studies: have the numbers have gone up; if so, how much; and then look at whether the victims had vaccines, and which ones, or did they have Covid19 at some point, or both or neither.
Was a sudden death SCA, or suicide, or overdose, accident? I think all have gone up, but the articles don’t always say
The second heart attack she had was in 2022. Totally within the vax timeline. Could have made her existing condition worse. I mean, your speculation isn’t any better than mine, yet you are upset about me voicing mine.
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-5c9
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A poster over on Instapundit’s open thread tonight wrote:
Can somebody find me a randomized study where vaccine protection against death is used as a primary endpoint? Ooppsee, that’s right, there is NO SUCH STUDY. I wonder why not.
We do have Pfizer’s randomized data from their six month update. Pfizer looks at all cause mortality, but the data is embarrassing, so they hide it in the “supplemental” material.
I link to it here: https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.medrxiv.org%2Fcon%3ApuGjtZoPM5L97xFZQyRkAtZ_gHI&cuid=4235850
Click on the “supplements” link and go to Table S4. There you will notice that vaccinated people die at a rate 7% higher than UN vaccinated people.
This.
Is.
Pfizer’s.
RANDOMIZED.
Data.
Pfizer can shut me up with a SINGLE RCT where mortality is the primary endpoint.
Whatever could it be? Climate change?
The question still stands, was she vaxed?
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