Red Sky Foundation team saves man's life at Great North 10K

Runners Lisa Loftus and Mickey Donkin performed CPR while Foundation founder Sergio Petrucci fetched the defibrillator from the charity's van

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00:00Red Sky Foundation founder Sergio Petrucci, talk us through what happened.

00:06So we were on the central reservation of the central motorway in Newcastle ready for the

00:13Newcastle 10k, the final wave of runners went past us and the support bicycles had left

00:18and we were on our way back up the slip road to prepare our stage area for our runners

00:23coming back and I suddenly looked over my right shoulder and I saw the actions which

00:28pretty much just illustrated CPR was being carried out, recognising this straight away

00:35I ran up the slip road to retrieve the defibrillator that we had in the Red Sky Foundation van

00:40and we got that straight away back to the patient on the central motorway right in the

00:46middle of the road and there was these superheroes who performed early CPR, it was Lisa and Mickey

00:52that were doing the compressions, the pads went straight onto the bare chest, they followed

00:58the chain of survival and as soon as the pads went on the defibrillator did all the

01:02work for them and told them to stand clear of the patient while it was administering

01:06its checks on the heart rhythm and what it was looking for was irregularity, when it

01:12picked that up it notified Lisa and Mickey to stand back and press the shock button to

01:18deliver the first shock which was administered straight away and then they could proceed

01:23with the CPR again. It was a textbook experience to be fair and this early action, early CPR,

01:31early defibrillation would do nothing more than just save this guy's life and give him

01:35the best chance of surviving the out of hospital cardiac arrest because only 1 in 10 people

01:41have the survival rate if they were to go into a medical emergency in a cardiac arrest

01:47and you can only put that down to the stars lining up or everything that happened that

01:52day for the gentleman concerned, it was the luckiest day of his life.