In the Mind of a Lay Rescuer
Responding to a Cardiac Arrest My first time performing CPR was emotionally challenging. Even traumatic. So before you go through...
Management Plans is a category in which I discuss caregiver education and community education.
We see many patients in the children’s emergency department and the waiting time can be quite long. However, we find many children can do well at home if their parents have some information on say, fever management.
Similarly, dementia and cardiac arrest are on the rise in Singapore but many in the community do not know how to respond.
I hope the articles will be helpful to caregivers and the general community.
Beginning Of The End Of Our DARE App
Let’s Begin At The Very Beginning Cardiac Arrest Victims Fair Poorly Due To Prolonged Downtime For many years, I realised...
Mindfulness and CPR: Part Five – Rescuers and their Stress
By Han Ming Xuan (with thanks to Dr Jade) There is limited literature about psychological follow-up with lay rescuers who...
Mindfulness and CPR: Part Four – Family-witnessed resuscitation
By Han Ming Xuan (with thanks to Dr Jade) Family-witnessed resuscitation Seeing one’s own family member being subject to chest...
Mindfulness and CPR: Part Three – The Mental Health Continuum
By Han Ming Xuan (with thanks to Dr Jade) A note about life’s stressors As with any stressor in life,...
Mindfulness and CPR: Part Two – The bystander effect
By Han Ming Xuan (with thanks to Dr Jade) What is the bystander effect? The bystander effect is a phenomenon...
Mindfulness And CPR: Part One – What Even…
By Han Ming Xuan (with thanks to Dr Jade) Why mindfulness and CPR? Hearing a word like “mindfulness” evokes such...
Maintaining Social Connections Despite Social Distancing
Overcoming The Challenges Of Social Distancing Social distancing dominated most of the second quarter of 2020 for me. Our Social...
Our Social Responsibility To Stay Home
Social Responsibility As Reality Bites As Coronavirus Spreads, our social responsibility to flatten the curve and ease the burden on...
Love In The Time Of Coronavirus
Love In The Time Of A Novel Coronavirus Love, Interrupted Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel, Love In The Time Of Cholera,...
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Paediatric emergency specialist and Mama to 3 teens, 3 tots, 3 dogs & a whole bunch of residents. Devour life before it devours you.