Dave Pineau’s wife delivered CPR on a 90-year old man who collapsed at a Winnipeg McDonald’s. The family of an elderly man who died of a heart attack after collapsing at a Winnipeg McDonald’s restaurant and those who tried to save him stated that defibrillators should be placed in restaurants. Accessibility of defibrillators According to […]
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N.S. rolls out a program to alert people with AEDs of a nearby cardiac arrest but many are left unlisted. Marc Butler almost died on a soccer field as his friends performed chest compressions and players pounded on doors of a nearby recreation center trying to reach a defibrillator inside. Unlisted defibrillators Fraser Allen stated
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A 13-year old boy in Nova Scotia who had a near encounter with death is a reminder to maintain the portable defibrillators. Several public buildings have an automated external defibrillator (AED) to save someone in a cardiac emergency. Timely rescue When Kenzie Lahey required on, the device was dead. It was 3 weeks ago when
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A Yellowknife man whose heart stopped while playing squash was saved. Terry Gray, 48- years old was playing squash at The Yellowknife Racquet Club with his friend Brooke Harker when he collapsed. According to Gray, his heart went into a bad rhythm and it placed me into cardiac arrest. Harker quickly delivered CPR and called
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A mail carrier felt pressured on following instructions to help an unconscious woman with white powder on her. According to a City of Winnipeg spokesperson, the 911 operator was following standard emergency protocols by instructing the mail carrier to perform CPR on an unconscious woman. Timely instructions Corey Gallagher was delivering mail to a south
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Steve Sawatzky was at Tinkertown when he went into cardiac arrest. Around 2 dozen Winnipeg firefighter paramedics took turns in performing CPR for nearly an hour after Sawatzky collapsed at a work barbeque. Unexpected incident Sawatzky was sitting at a picnic table at the amusement park, surrounded by his colleagues when he went into cardiac
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Automated externa defibrillators can save a life of an individual with an abnormal heart rhythm. Sadly, there were cases of incidents involving the device that resulted to a deadly outcome. During the past 5 years, there were hundred of reports where defibrillators failed to work. Based on the documents, 9 patients died when a defibrillator
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Abdulla El-Astal was playing in a futsal tournament when he collapsed on the bench. A weekend indoor soccer tournament almost took an unexpected turn. Abdulla El-Astal, 15-years old was playing in a year-end futsal tournament which is a version of indoor soccer at Sir Robert Borden High School on Greenbank Road. Cessation of breathing The
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An emergency room doctor is recognized for using an automated external defibrillator (AED) to save a life. The device was used to save the life of a passenger on a Winnipeg transit bus. Dr. Doug Eyolfson was on the bus on Portage Avenue when the heart of another passenger ceased to beat. At that time,
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A boy, 18 years old drowned on a class trip near Minden, Ontario. The boy was an engineering student of the University of Toronto. According to his uncle, the boy does not know how to swim, why did he go to the lake. Watery ordeal The boy died after gone missing while swimming in Gull
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A boy, 15 years old is dead after a hit-and-run incident in Lockport, north of Winnipeg. According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police the incident happened on a Friday night when 2 boys, both age 15 were riding on their bikes on the shoulder of Donald Road near Highway 9 in the municipality of St.
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CPR was quickly performed on a man who collapsed at Cape Breton Fiddlers Run finish line. A man running in the Cape Breton Fiddlers Run half-marathon was transported to a healthcare facility by ambulance after he collapsed 10 feet away from the finish line. Timely delivery of CPR The runner appeared to stumble and fell
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A 66-year old Delta man is alive after an off-duty Surrey RCMP officer performed CPR. The man apparently suffered a heart attack. According to the police, the officer was on his way to work when he was flagged down near 56 Avenue and 144 Street in Surrey. CPR assistance A man was in medical distress
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A 13-year old Montreal boy is in critical condition after found at the bottom of the swimming pool after a high school gym class. No one noticed the absence of the grade 8 student when his class left the pool deck and it was the next group that found him. According to a school board
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A woman in her 60s was touring Vancouver Island with her husband when she fell into the river. The woman drowned near Campbell River after falling into the waters at Elk Falls. According to Cpl. Ron Vlooswyk, a police spokesperson, the woman, a Dutch tourist in her 60s seemed to have slipped into the river
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There is a reported increase in cases of drownings in May and rises through August. The BC Coroner’s Service issued a warning on water safety as the drowning toll reaches up the 5 in the province this month. Water safety It also comes a day after the body of a 20-year old man was retrieved
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A 6-year old is dead after a boating incident. A North Vancouver family was boating on Kalamalka Lake in Vernon when the incident occurred. There were reports of drowning incident at Kalamalka Lake which was south of Vernon. According to Vernon RCMP, the family were boating on the lake and was returning to the dock
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A 26-year old Abbotsford man drowned after jumping into Cultus Lake from a cliff. According to Chilliwack RCMP, a friend of the victim called 911 to report that his friend jumped into the lake and did not resurface. Dangers of cliff jumping Based on the statement of the police, the fatal jump was recorded by
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Two people died after a raft they were riding overturned on New Brunswick’s Miramichi River. According to RCMP Sgt. Brent Johnston, 8 friends were rafting down the river in Gray Rapids, N.B. shortly after 4 PM when it flipped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_49wMpdews Rapid overturn He added that 6 people were able to reach the shore on their
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A woman who was trapped in her vehicle was saved. Brent Turnbull’s attempt to clear his head before the semifinal did not turn out the way he had planned. Before every game, the team would usually go to Tim Hortons, but Turnbull decided to go ahead of the team, walking to a restaurant in Fredericton
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