Stride with SADS UK in Hyde Park, London to raise awareness and funds to STOP SADS – Sunday 14th May 2023 – more details coming soon!
Preventing loss of life from SADS, Sudden Death
The cardiac charity SADS UK aims to save lives, providing information, funding research and medical equipment to prevent premature sudden cardiac death. Working in the areas of Research, Prevention and Emergency Care lives have been saved as a direct result of the work of SADS UK. SADS UK holds the Annual National Lifesaver Awards to honour people who have saved lives in the community using CPR and the defibrillator.
Read MoreThe Automated External Defibrillator (AED) has developed over the years. Years ago only medics could use a defibrillator in a cardiac arrest emergency, now anyone can use this lifesaving equipment. Administering CPR and the defibrillator is the most powerful combination in saving life and the earlier it is applied the better the chance is of a person surviving cardiac arrest.For every minute that passes without defibrillation the chances of survival diminish by 10%.
Read MoreSADS UK works with major Heart Hospitals around the country, providing funding for projects that deepen the understanding of cardiac arrhythmia and genetic conditions that can cause SADS, sudden cardiac death. The aim is to prevent tragic premature death and provide important information to better identify and treat individuals and families at risk.
Read MoreThe energy and commitment of members and supporters is inspirational as they take on all sorts of fundraising events, from coffee mornings and cheese and wine evenings to families getting together to do the Big Fun Run or arranging a gig, charity night or a quiz at their local pub. Whether you prefer the adrenaline rush of a Skydive, the challenge of running a marathon, or a coffee morning with friends, SADS UK has a lot of fundraising ideas and events to suit all ages and abilities.
Read MoreSADS UK welcomes stories from members about their experiences, loss, grief and how SADS, sudden cardiac death has affected them. Sharing our stories with others can be healing and many people benefit from knowing they are not alone in suffering a loss. With a sudden loss there is just no time to mentally prepare for what life would be like without a loved one in it. While it may be incredibly painful, we need to take time to reconcile in our minds what has happened, to try to make sense of something that seems to makes no sense. People need to be given an opportunity to talk about their loved one and assimilate what has happened, to speak or write about their unbelievable and devastating loss.
Read MoreSADS UK welcomes stories from members about their experiences, loss, grief and how SADS, sudden cardiac death has affected them. Sharing our stories with others can be healing and many people benefit from knowing they are not alone in suffering a loss. With a sudden loss there is just no time to mentally prepare for what life would be like without a loved one in it. While it may be incredibly painful, we need to take time to reconcile in our minds what has happened, to try to make sense of something that seems to makes no sense. People need to be given an opportunity to talk about their loved one and assimilate what has happened, to speak or write about their unbelievable and devastating loss.
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SADS UK welcomes the Government’s announcement that all state funded secondary schools who do not already have a defibrillator on site will be provided with a defibrillator by July 2023. After the charity’s many years of campaigning and liaising with Government and the Dept for Education there will now be at least one lifesaving device in every school should a person suffer a cardiac arrest.
Read MoreSADS UK is proud to be supporting the International Paediatric Brugada Syndrome Database. More details about the project description can be found by clicking read more below.
SADS UK provided essential lifesaving skills to Year 8 pupils at Grays Convent High School on Tuesday 12th July 2022, our aim is to create a generation of lifesavers, being that every school leaver is trained to recognise and respond appropriately to a cardiac arrest emergency in a bid to increase survival rates from out of hospital cardiac arrest.
Up to 60,000 cardiac arrests occur outside of hospitals in the UK every year, and the current survival rate in the UK is only 8%. Evidence from across the globe demonstrates that teaching school pupils basic life support skills can have a dramatic effect on cardiac arrest survival rates. Seattle and some Nordic cities have survival rates of more than 25%.
Read MoreLaunch of an International Registry for a common cause of a rare event, Paediatric Sudden Cardiac Death - In 2021, SADS UK were pleased to support doctors from the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children who brought together clinicians and researchers from all over the world with the aim to better understand the rare childhood presentation of a disease called Brugada Syndrome. Dr Cecilia Gonzalez Corcia pictured on the left.
Read MoreRoy Tyzack is taking on an abseil challenge down the 190' high water tower at Church Langley, Harlow on Saturday 14th May 2022.
Roy Tyzack is a 75-year-old retired Police Detective, having served with both the Metropolitan Police and Essex Police. He is now a First Response Medic and Qualified First Aid Instructor and Lead Instructor for the SADS UK 'HEARTWIZE' Scheme teaching CPR and defibrillator training to Year 10's in Essex schools to create a generation of lifesavers.
Read MorePhil Skayman, Jamie Hallam and Adam Cropper of Hughsie FC will be taking on the challenge of a 3-week trek in the Himalayas on 5th April 2022. They are members of SADS UK’s 11-a-side charity football team formed in memory of friend and Captain Adam Hughes who tragically passed away in May 2009 aged just 25 from SADS (Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome).
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