During a mountain bike tour in the Berchtesgaden Alps, a man collapsed lifeless on Sunday.
His friends are quick-witted.
Ramsau / Forst Taubensee - A 59-year-old man from Lower Bavaria suddenly collapsed on a mountain bike tour in the Berchtesgaden Alps.
His friends who accompanied him on the tour reacted immediately.
With their quick action, they probably saved his life.
Mountain biker suffers cardiac arrest and can no longer breathe
On Sunday morning (August 22nd) the group of three people left the Taubensee parking lot. They wanted to undertake a mountain bike tour to the Mordaualm in the southern Lattengebirge, writes the BRK Berchtesgadener Land *. At around 11 a.m. they reached the last ascent to the Alm above the Gatterl. Here suddenly the strength of the 59-year-old failed. He passed out and collapsed. The man lay on the floor with cardiac arrest and no breathing. His friends immediately recognized the gravity of the situation. They called 911 and started the resuscitation.
The informed control center in Traunstein immediately dispatched the rescue helicopter * "Christoph 14".
In addition, helpers from the Ramsau * mountain rescue service set out.
A mountain rescuer who lives below the Taubensee was the first to arrive.
He replaced the 59-year-old's companions in the resuscitation.
A short time later, other mountain rescuers also reached the mountain biker group with an ambulance.
They had a so-called early defibrillator with them and immediately began to defibrillate the 59-year-old.
59-year-old mountain biker can be flown to hospital stabilized
When the helicopter landed on a forest road about 50 meters away, the man had his own heartbeat again. The emergency doctors and paramedics only had to take care of the ventilation in Lower Bavaria. Other mountain rescuers came to the scene of the accident with an all-terrain vehicle (ATM) and helped bring the mountain biker to the rescue helicopter. He was immediately flown to the Traunstein Clinic *. A total of nine mountain rescuers were involved in the operation until around 1.30 p.m.
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