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Updates and recovery guidance from the team building Heart Restarted.
The cardiology appointment nobody asked you to prepare for
Caregivers forget their questions at cardiology appointments too; here is how to write them down and print them before you go.
The Days You Can't Remember Aren't Gone. They're Missing.
Why ECMO survivors wake up with a missing block of time, what a standard cardiac recovery pamphlet leaves out, and how Heart Restarted was built for that specific gap.
The Questions Nobody Hands You Before That First Cardiology Visit
The ECMO-specific questions worth writing down before your first cardiology follow-up, and how to bring them with you.
What the Discharge Packet Doesn't Cover After ECMO
What the discharge packet leaves out for ECMO survivors and their families, and where Heart Restarted fills the gap.
What the First Year After ECMO Actually Contains
What actually fills the year after ECMO, the memory gap, the two-year timeline, and what the discharge packet leaves out.
What to Bring to the Cardiology Follow-Up When You Were On ECMO
How the Questions for My Care Team page in Heart Restarted helps ECMO survivors write down what to ask the cardiologist and print it for the visit.
What Heart Restarted Is For
Heart Restarted is a peer support platform for cardiac arrest and ECMO survivors and their caregivers, built for connection and practical tools like a safety plan and a list of questions for your care team.