{"id":100,"date":"2013-10-04T14:54:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T14:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defibdoctor.co.uk\/wp\/?p=100"},"modified":"2013-10-04T15:45:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T15:45:32","slug":"james-barry-16-real-cpr-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defibdoctor.co.uk\/wp\/james-barry-16-real-cpr-story\/","title":{"rendered":"James Barry (16) real CPR story"},"content":{"rendered":"

See on Scoop.it<\/a> – Defibrillation<\/a>
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Having practiced CPR and attending many first aid courses that my dad has run I was amazed that when I needed to perform CPR for real how my reflexes took over and I automatically got on with the job in hand.<\/p>\n

I was at college when the caretaker collapsed. People stood around looking but not doing anything. When I approached the man a member of staff was shaking him trying to get him to respond. I immediately tilted the casualties head to open his airway, I then listened for breathing whilst counting to 10. This seemed an eternity but I was sure that the man was not breathing. I asked the member of staff to call for an ambulance and say that this was a cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n

I started CPR. This felt similar to what I had practiced on the courses but there was a little bit more resistance on the chest than on the Brad manikin. I actually felt the chest give on a couple of occasions as ribs gave way.<\/p>\n

Giving breaths was as practiced in the classes and I used a face shield which I keep in a pouch on my keys. I continued with CPR for about 3 minutes and then an ambulance arrived. I continued with the CPR whilst I spoke to the paramedics and explained what had happened. It was only at this time that I realised how out of breath I was. It was a real relief to see the paramedics although I had heard the sirens of the ambulance as they came along the driveway.<\/p>\n

The paramedics told me to keep doing chest compressions whilst they set up their equipment and inserted an airway. One paramedic stuck defib pads to the mans chest, I was told to move away from the casualty and they delivered a shock. The casualty lifted off the floor when he received the shock. Just as this was happening a second ambulance arrived.<\/p>\n

It appeared that the shock from the defib had worked as the paramedics could see a heart beat on their monitor and the man was trying to breath himself. All 4 paramedics got the casualty onto a stretcher and set off for hospital on blue lights and sirens.<\/p>\n

I have since met the man involved in this incident at a college open evening and will be starting this college in September.<\/p>\n

I was really surprised how the training I had just took over but I must admitted I was in shock afterwards and felt sick. I would get involved in a medical emergency again and this has given me confidence to want to become a first aid instructor and follow my dream of becoming a paramedic.<\/p>\n

James Barry (aged 16)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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See on Scoop.it – Defibrillation Having practiced CPR and attending many first aid courses that my dad has run I was amazed that when I needed to perform CPR for real how my reflexes took over and I automatically got on with the job in hand. I was at college when the caretaker collapsed. People […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardiac-arrest","category-cpr","category-defibrillation","category-rosc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defibdoctor.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defibdoctor.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defibdoctor.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defibdoctor.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defibdoctor.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/defibdoctor.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/defibdoctor.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defibdoctor.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defibdoctor.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defibdoctor.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}