Hearts and Minds
Wed, 16 Mar
|Whatlington
What's good for the heart is good for the brain. Dr Jenny Bell, a former heart specialist, explains that essentially what's good for the heart is good for the brain. She will give a demonstration in the use of a defibrillator and how to perform CPR (chest compressions).
Time & Location
16 Mar 2022, 19:00 – 21:00
Whatlington, Whatlington, Battle TN33 0ND, UK
About the event
Saving a life sounds such a dramatic concept and performing CPR and using an AED (defibrillator) when someone has a cardiac arrest is certainly dramatic.
However there are other ways in which we can save lives in preventing disease in the first place – the risk factors for heart disease and dementia are the same and recently it has been established that 40 per cent of dementia cases (nearly a million in the UK) are attributable to lifestyle. Giving up smoking, increasing physical activity, controlling blood pressure and eating a healthy diet are the main factors; getting to know the signs and symptoms of a disease is important so that medical advice can be sought and diagnosis and treatment initiated and knowing what to do in the event of cardiac arrest – when you see no response and no breathing – could be the single most important thing you ever do.
Sadly,…