Legyen minden konditeremben defibrillátor – ezért küzd egy fiatal ausztrál nő, aki kizárólag az életmentő eszköznek köszönheti, hogy túlélte a 2018 októberében történt szívleállását (és persze a két férfinak, akik újraélesztették).
A queenslandi Emily Counter a noosai Anytime Fitnessben épp az evezőpadot használta, amikor váratlanul összeesett. Az esetet megörökítette a konditerem biztonsági kamerája:
Defibrillator saves woman in Australian gym
An Australian woman has spoken out after she suffered a cardiac arrest on a rowing machine last year and spent three days in a coma. Emily Counter was at Anytime Fitness in Noosa in October when she went into cardiac arrest. Gym owner Aaron Peterson reacted quickly and started to perform CPR on Ms Counter, while another gym member Ben Duffy fetched the defibrillator.Mr Peterson told the Courier Mail he was in shock but the defibrillator was easy to use. "You learn how to use those things in your first aid course, but you never really use it," he told the Courier Mail.Australian woman Emily Counter is calling for defibrillators to be compulsory in gyms. Ms Counter was in a coma for three days and was diagnosed has having a rare heart condition called Bland-White-Garland Syndrome (BWGS). While Anytime Fitness has decided to install defibrillators in their gyms, there are curently no rules, codes, legislation or laws in Australia that make defibrillators necessary in any industry, business or public place (not even a General Practice). ARAN has made formal submissions to Safework NSW (the Governement WHS Authority) and the Australian Building and Construction Commission (in charge of making the rules in regard to necessary equipment for building compliance) and both have stated that defibrillators "are not their responsibility" and referred ARAN back to each other. As there are more that 33,500 sudden cardiac arrests (like the one in this story) happen every year and most die without early defibrillation (i.e. before Ambulance arrival. If these two bodies are "not responsible" can someone in Government please inform the public (and ARAN), who is???!!!
Közzétette: Australian Resuscitation Advisory Network – 2019. február 16., szombat
A Weekly Times ausztrál lap szerint a fitneszterem alkalmazottai manuális újraélesztéssel majd defibrillátorral próbálkoztak, végül sikerült elérniük, hogy a 21 éves nő szíve ismét verni kezdjen.
Emily egy héttel az eset után szívműtéten esett át, és már újra elkezdhetett edzeni. Most azért kampányol, hogy minden konditeremben meglegyenek a szükséges életmentő eszközök, hogy mással se történhessen tragédia.
