SHOCK TREATMENT PAYS OFF

JOE Marshall, community defibrillation officer for Sussex Ambulance Service, was able to practise what he preached on Monday when he successfully resuscitated a woman who had collapsed at the roadside.

Joe was returning to Ambulance HQ in Lewes after a meeting with a group of volunteers in Bognor Regis.

On rounding a corner he noticed a group of passers-by huddled around a woman who appeared to have collapsed.

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Joe recognised that she had suffered a cardiac arrest and was not breathing.

Grabbing the defibrillator, which he had used only moments before to give a demonstration of its life-saving abilities, he started performing chest compressions on the patient before delivering a single shock with the machine.

On this occasion one shock was sufficient to re-start her heart. It is understood she is continuing to make a recovery.

Said Joe said: 'This incident was the very best advertisement possible for the benefits of early defibrillation.'

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