Pretoria runner resuscitated during Durban marathon

Just after 7h00 on Sunday morning Netcare 911 paramedics responded to a person that collapsed during a marathon in Durban. Reports from the scene indicate that a Pretoria lady aged thirty-two was running along NMR Avenue when she started feeling ill, she sat down on the pavement and collapsed. Fortunately an off duty-nursing sister was at the scene and immediately started with CPR.

The Netcare 911 Advanced life support paramedics and his team as well as another service arrived at the scene, after connecting a heart monitor they found that the runner’s heart had stopped. The Paramedics placed the patient on a ventilator and the team continued with advanced life support resuscitation for about twenty minutes.

After she was defibrillated twice you could hear the relief of everyone when hear heart started to beat and she resumed spontaneous respirations again. Paramedics loaded the patient into the ambulance and then transported her to hospital under the constant care of the Netcare 911 advanced life support paramedic.