Restarted: Sudden Cardiac Arrest Survival Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts follow the arc from the ordinary moment the heart stopped — a treadmill, a kitchen, a train platform, a school pitch — through the chain of survival that decided everything: the stranger who started compressions, the green box by the ticket machines, the fourteen minutes before a pulse came back. Writers describe waking in intensive care with no memory of the day, the cooling protocols, the neurological questions nobody wants to ask out loud, and the implanted defibrillator that becomes a permanent passenger. There are young athletes felled by commotio cordis, families rebuilt around a device that may fire without warning, cardiac rehabilitation measured in metres, and the harder roads where brain injury, anxiety, or a second arrest changed what recovery could mean.

Who it's for

For arrest survivors and the families who resuscitated or waited, for people living with an ICD, and for anyone who has ever wondered whether learning CPR is worth the afternoon.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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