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Dear Sirs, I recently, at the age of 49, survived an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. It helped that I am a GP and was on a ward round in a local care home. The nurse sitting next to me started cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) immediately and I was defibrillated within a few minutes by a team of paramedics. It was strange to wake up somewhere else and told to “keep the oxygen on”. I thought I was in a dream.  It is hard to thank sufficiently the teams in the acute cardiac unit, the ITU and CCU. Usually only 5% survive such an event. Often survivors suffer cognitive deficit that, hopefully, for me is minimal. I did not really have any m