SHOCK TREATMENT PAYS OFF
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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Hide AdJoe 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.'