Video: CCTV of Cardiac arrest with underlying AED rhythm and voice prompts (11 December 2022)

Summary

This video shows CCTV footage of Bob being treated for a cardiac arrest on his way to watch a football match at the AMEX stadium in Brighton.

The video could be used as a training tool to show how to start cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and how to use an automated external defibrillator (AED). The video highlights what the AED is analysing and then shocking, showing what happened to the electrical rhythm as it converts ventricular fibrillation (VF) to sinus rhythm. It also features the voice prompts from the cardiac arrest.

Bob survived with a completely normal quality of life and was the seventh person (out of seven) at the AMEX stadium to have a cardiac arrest and survive with a normal quality of life.

The video shows great team work and human factors interactions between the St John Ambulance volunteers who saved Bob's life, the stewarding team and paramedics.

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