A woman named Cassandra Panyter working in the Pro shop rushed to help a man having a cardiac arrest. She is also a trained lifeguard. It was only her first week in the job. She saw a man taken to the clubhouse in a golf cart. Another person called an ambulance. The man was having trouble staying conscious. She immediately provided first aid treated the man for shock and encouraged the man to keep breathing.
The paramedics eventually arrived. The man has already lost consciousness. Paynter together with the paramedics help keep his heart pumping by providing CPR. She also instructed other staff how to provide proper chest compressions. She kept the proper rhythm to keep heart pumping and talked with the paramedics making sure that everything was performed properly.
Prompt intervention with life-saving measure
Paynter credits the people who trained her properly in first aid and CPR and that she has self confidence in providing help to the man. They gave me the confidence to respond immediately and properly with the man named Wilbur who suffered cardiac arrest and lucky he is still alive because of that training.
It was suppose to be a normal day for Wilbur Birt. The incident happened in Fox Meadow Golf Course in Stratford, P.E.I. just across from his hometown in Charlottetown. His wife did not notice Birt was behaving differently and was joking around with her when he left. While on his third fairway, one of companions noticed him and does not look very well. He was shooting the second or third shot and it just ended there. Birt was brought to the hospital by the paramedics for further treatment and put in an induced coma and on a respirator for about 5 days. He was again transferred to another hospital. A defibrillator was put in the chest and was determined Wilbur suffered a full cardiac arrest.
This is not Birt’s episodes of heart troubles. In the past years he had a quadruple bypass. While recovering, he was planning to meet the woman who helped in saving his life.
According to Paynter, when Birt has totally recovered from his ordeal and out of the hospital, they finally met again and gave each other a big hug.
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Learn how to help by enrolling in a first aid course and for more information, check out these sources:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/first-aid