Quick actions of bystanders save heart attack victim
Posted Nov 13, 2016 09:19:07 AM.
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OTTAWA–A 51-year old man is in serious but stable condition in hospital following a heart attack yesterday at a martial arts competition in Kanata, and Ottawa Paramedics figure bystanders were key in saving his life.
The man was competing when he dropped to mat with a heart attack.
He wasn’t breathing and didn’t have a pulse.
Witnesses went to work — one started CPR, another called 9-1-1, and a third went across the street to a nearby city of Ottawa community centre to get an automated external difibrillator.
The AED successfully shocked the man’s heart: He was was conscious and talking to paramedics before being taken to hospital.
Paramedics emphasize the actions, termed the “chain of survival” were critical in a positive outcome.
