A Stepping Hill Hospital A&E sister and her paramedic husband have been praised for helping save the life of a heart attack victim – not at hospital but in a department store car park.
Senior A&E sister Clare and her husband John Carrie, a senior paramedic for the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS), acted as true professionals to save the life of a fellow shopper at the Dunelm Mill store in Stockport.
John and Clare rushed to provide critical assistance to a fellow NWAS paramedic when the patient’s condition deteriorated and he went into cardiac arrest.
The trio pulled him out of the car and administered CPR, followed by two shocks with a defibrillator when he was still not responding. As an ambulance arrived, Clare phoned Stepping Hill Hospital ahead to have a resuscitation bed ready as the patient was rushed in for treatment. Once there, staff helped him to stabilise, before being later transferred to Wythenshawe Hospital to complete his recovery.
John and Clare were commended by NWAS for their swift action which helped save the patient’s life, and also received a thank you letter from the man himself: “I cannot help thinking of you guys and how fortunate it was that our paths crossed as they did. I just wanted to say a huge thank you for what you did.”