An example of how important this work is can be seen from an incident we attended in September 2017. A 70-year-old gentleman collapsed while watching his favourite local football team play a game at the ground opposite Paddock Wood fire station. One moment, he was chatting with friends and the very next, he literally fell to the ground. Players and members of the public who knew him immediately started CPR, while someone else alerted the crew at Paddock Wood fire station. Two firefighters were on station at the time and they immediately put a call in to alert the other crew members on duty, who responded rapidly, and then ran across to the field with their medical bags to help. The crew set up the defibrillator, assisted with CPR and management of the incident. Working with SECAmb, two shocks with the defibrillator were administered and CPR continued. The gentleman was then transferred to hospital by air ambulance for emergency surgery. Four months on he is fully recovered and has returned to work. Having ready access to a defibrillator, together with basic knowledge of CPR can make a huge difference to the outcome for someone in cardiac arrest, providing potentially early life-saving intervention at a point where every second counts.
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