A TEACHER was hailed a hero for helping save the life an elderly man who stopped breathing during a school concert.
The Physics teacher sprang into action at the School’s end of year Gala, helping to resuscitate 67-year-old member of the audience after he suffered a heart attack and stopped breathing for ten minutes.
The elderly man, who was accompanying the grandparent of a 14-year-old girl who was performing in the concert, had collapsed in a gallery in the school hall after telling his companion he was feeling unwell and was going outside to get some fresh air.
The teacher started giving the man CPR, having returned from a first aid course just six weeks before, and succeeded in starting his breathing for a short time before it stopped again.
He said: “When I found him he was unconscious and not breathing. He was looking quite blue, but I thought well I will do what I have been trained to do. The paramedics had to shock him three times but he later regained consciousness.”
"Apparently he had come to look after a grandparent who was old and frail and then himself had this massive heart attack. He lives on his own, so I was thinking if he had had the attack there he would probably be dead.”
Thanks to the teacher’s efforts, the School has now bought a defibrillator, which costs about £2,000, and has already trained ten members of staff to use it.
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