Bud and Noela Pawczynski are counting their lucky stars after a near-death experience last year was averted by the work of Karratha’s volunteer ambulance officers. The Derby-based couple were on their way back from Geraldton after visiting their first grandchild and had stopped in Karratha to refuel and catch up with a friend. Mrs Pawczynski had gone to get a glass of water and came back to find her husband slumped over the table. He had complained of sore shoulders earlier in the day. Close friend Colin “Roey” Roe performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Mr Pawcynski until the ambulance arrived. From there, he was taken to Nickol Bay Hospital, then to Royal Perth Hospital, where he remain
Three junior high school kids were walking home one afternoon, joking, tripping and shoving each other into bushes when they noticed an elderly lady drop in her garden. Their giggles were quickly replaced by anxiety and the realisation that there was nobody else around to help. Without mobile phones back in the day, a frantic run between the front doors of other aged neighbors occurred (who were too fearful of our chaotic noise to emerge or let them in to phone 000), so all that was left for them to do was return to the unconscious, lady and start CPR. The old lady died from a Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) and all efforts were useless... but she was given a slim chance by a bunch of kids - who
A GOLD Coast woman is in a critical condition after suffering a cardiac arrest during extreme heat at Helensvale’s NightQuarter last night. A Queensland Ambulance Service spokesman said the 45-year-old woman, who works at NighQuarter Helensvale, collapsed about 5.30pm yesterday. Senior Operations Supervisor Luke Wyatt said a “multitude of crews” responded to the incident. The woman is believed to have been working in a shed, in hot conditions, when she collapsed. It is understood the woman had an underlying medical condition, which paramedics believe was brought on due to the heat. Mr Wyatt said crews worked on the woman at the scene, before rushing her to the Gold Coast University Hospital,
NITU Gupta comes from a medical family and assumed all her relatives knew CPR — but when her son went into cardiac arrest, she discovered nobody else knew what to do. NITU Gupta comes from a medical family and assumed all her relatives knew CPR — but when her son Ravi stopped breathing and went into cardiac arrest, she discovered nobody else knew what to do. Luckily Dr Gupta, a dentist, had kept her CPR skills up to date and she swung into action and saved his life. “No-one in that room that day knew what to do. It was shocking for me when I realised others did not know what to do,” she said. “My husband is in the army reserves and he didn’t know and I said to him if this happens, you need t
