The Belfast woman felt unwell while onboard a flight and fell backwards in a complete collapse when they touched down
A woman who felt uncomfortable on a plane keeled over and collapsed after worrying it could be "something or nothing".
Thanks to quick-thinking airport staff, who administered CPR and shocked Alice with a defibrillator prior to the arrival of the Welsh Ambulance Service, Alice is alive to tell the tale. Talking about that day, Alice, an office manager, said: "I've got no recollection of what happened, but apparently, I was complaining of chest pain on the flight. The next thing I know I was waking up in hospital feeling hazy. I still don't think I've really processed what happened."
By chance, Chloe had completed her Community Welfare Responder training with the Welsh Ambulance Service a month prior. CWRs are trained to attend appropriate 999 calls in their community and take a set of observations to help clinicians in the ambulance control room decide the appropriate next steps.
"Neil and I put her in the recovery position and tried to make sure her airways were clear, and our on-site first aiders arrived after a couple of minutes. Alice's condition deteriorated rapidly, and as the airport fire section arrived, she stopped breathing and went into cardiac arrest. Alice was taken to the University Hospital of Wales, and later Swansea's Morriston Hospital, where she was fitted with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator , a battery-powered device which detects irregular heartbeats and delivers electric shocks to restore a regular heart rhythm.
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