Cardiac arrest while driving camper; saved by teenage daughter

[MyrtleGuru]

Father-of-four admits 'a lot of fate' was on his side after being saved by daughter's CPR

A FATHER admitted he would have died at the wheel of his campervan if it had not been for his quick-thinking teenage children.

www.bournemouthecho.co.uk

 

[Hollyberry]

Wow, amazing teenagers! Just shows it’s always worth trying and keeping going with CPR until the medics arrive. My daughter has always been sceptical about defibrillators but I read more and more of them having a successful outcome.

 

[scotzsue]

Lucky lucky man and well done all who helped. It is not easy doing CPR on a relative, totaly different feeling to doing it on somene else. so glad it had a good outcome.

 

[Stonemags76]

I’ve always said CPR should be taught in schools. Something is better than nothing, and although it usually doesn’t work, just occasionally it does, and that one time is worth learning for! A lucky man!

 

[WillH]

As above, whenever I've had training we've been told it's unlikely that it will work. But, it might so it's always worth a shot!

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[joka250]

Regarding defibrillator and using them. Not easy to get your mind around but just remember with cardiac arrest do nothing they're dead, with CPR and defibrillations there's a chance, however slight it's worth trying. I know.

 

[rosalan]

Perhaps we could all do with a reminder about CPR. I did a course many years ago but would I be any use today?

 

[Abacist]

Son is a pharmacist and has a defibrillator mounted outside his shop funded by the community. He has held training sessions on CPR and in the use of the machine in his shop at lunch times taken by a consultant surgeon who lives in the village but who works the A & E department at Derriford hospital, Plymouth.

She brought along Resussianne so we could practice CPR. Pressure required is significant and the speed of compressions required is surprising and then you may have to keep that up for a long time before the ambulance arrives. Mouth to mouth seems to be less important than it used to be but to maintain blood being pumped to the brain by the chest compressions. Long ago when I learned it in my youth you were taught to start with a big thump with your fist onto the heart but that is now frowned upon by the professionals as it should only be used by experts in A & E.

 

[Campervan_man]

Apparently the beat to ''staying alive is the correct pace to administer hands only CPR.