A man who visited the Mont Everest base camp to install a defibrillator as part of his plea work revealed that the device had saved the life of a woman only three weeks after his departure from Nepal.
David Sullivan is the founder of Blue CPR codeAn organization that forms the use of the defibrillator and the skills in RCR at home and in the world.
Earlier this year, the 62 -year -old man of Surrey ventured into the Himalayas where he installed what he says is the world’s largest defibrillator. Climbers die on Everest all the time – not always cardiac arrest – but certainly sometimes, and the use of a defibrillator in the first 3 minutes of a heart attack can improve survival rates from 8% to more than 50%.
Cutting at an altitude of 22,000 feet to test the defibrillator, Sullivan then descended into one of the villages near the Everest base camp, to just over 16,500 feet, to install the device for use.
He returned from Everest on April 30 and, only three weeks later, learned that it had saved the life of a young climber after his heart stopped.
“It was the most proud moment of my life when I learned what had happened,” Sullivan told Southwest News Service. “It was last Friday May 23), around 3:45 am, I have children who travel around the world, so I first thought:” Oh my God, something happened. »»
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“But it was a Sherpa who told me that the defibrillator had been activated and had saved the life of a 30 -year -old French woman. I hope it will help people to achieve how important it is to have access to the defibrillators.”
Sullivan began his plaid work after losing four close friends – all under the age of 45 – for cardiac arrest, and while he was in Nepal, he also gave several RCR and defibrillator lessons to the inhabitants who had never had access to training before.
Now that he is back in the United Kingdom, Sullivan is preparing to present a government training program which would see 1.2 million children across London formed by the RCR.
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“We want each school to have a new defibrillator and each school person – students, teachers, staff – to have all the training necessary to save someone’s life,” he told Swns. “I made nine minutes of RCR for a young boy and I used a defibrillator only three months after showing how to do it.”
“While I was doing this, about 30 people just looked at and did not help because they didn’t know how,” he recalls. “When the boy’s mom called me the next day to say that he was alive, it changed my life forever.”
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