Back-to-life guides after cardiac arrest or ECMO

Getting your life back is a list of small questions. Each guide gives you the questions to ask your care team. Tick the ones that matter, add your own, and print the list for your visit. It is kept on this device.

• Driving again

  Questions to ask before you get back behind the wheel.

  Open the checklist

• Going back to work

  Questions to ask before you go back, and what to tell your employer.

  Open the checklist

• Exercise and cardiac rehab

  Questions about getting active again, and about cardiac rehab.

  Open the checklist

• Travel and flying with an ICD

  Airport security, your device card and long trips.

  Open the checklist

• Intimacy

  Questions for you and your partner, asked privately.

  Open the checklist

• Telling your kids

  Simple, honest words, and who can help.

  Open the checklist

General information, not medical advice. Talk to your care team.