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Student’s cardiac arrest survival inspires the region to take up CPR training

Due to the sudden onset of a cardiac arrest, one college is training over 100 of their students in life saving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) with the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS).

Tyne Metropolitan College was inspired by Restart a Heart Day after one of their students survived a cardiac arrest last year whilst playing football, due to the people around him knowing what to do.

NEAS honours its staff and volunteers

Staff at the North East Ambulance Service were honoured today for going ‘beyond the call of duty’.

Colleagues and members of the public have nominated staff in 15 categories in the ambulance trust’s annual awards ceremony held at the Ramside Hall Hotel tonight. The event – sponsored by law firm Ward Hadaway – is now in its 8th year. Individual awards were sponsored by Ward Hadaway, the GMB and Unison unions

Chain of survival saves cardiac arrest patient’s life

Fifty-nine year old Andrew Charles from London was attending a university open day in Durham with his family in March this year that could have ended in tragedy, but thanks to the chain of events that followed, he survived to reunite with the people who helped to save his life this week.

When Andrew went into cardiac arrest, his wife Gillian immediately began CPR and their daughter Simone rang 999 for an ambulance. Passer-by Trina Duke stopped to offer help and together they continued until volunteer community first responder Ian Garrett arrived on scene.