Drehhütte: Guest suffers cardiac arrest - first responders save his life

Created: 05/02/2022Updated: 05/02/2022 13:05

The Füssen mountain rescue service took care of a guest of the revolving hut on the Sunday before last after he had suffered a cardiovascular arrest.

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Schwangau - It is only thanks to the courageous intervention of the first responders that a 48-year-old can leave the hospital without major damage after a cardiovascular arrest in the revolving hut.

A 48-year-old literally fell off his chair the Sunday before last in the revolving hut.

As a result, the mountain rescuers from Füssen, who are supported on the weekends by two comrades from Kaufbeuren, were immediately alerted via the integrated Allgäu control center.

In addition, the emergency doctor of the land rescue service and the rescue transport vehicle of the BRK were informed.

Exactly ten minutes after the alarm was raised, a mountain rescue emergency doctor and mountain rescue paramedics from Kaufbeuren and Füssen were at the scene.

The three rescuers took over the care of the lifeless man and were able to reanimate him to his own cardiovascular system within the next five minutes.

To do this, the rescuers gave the patient a continuous cardiac massage, ventilated him with oxygen and shocked him twice using an AED (automated external defibrillator).

In the meantime, the mountain rescue doctor intubated him.

That means she inserted a tube into his windpipe to give him artificial respiration.

When the patient was stable, land rescue took him to Füssen Hospital for further treatment.

Rescue is only possible through courageous intervention by first aiders

According to the mountain rescue service, the man was extremely lucky and, according to the current status, will soon be able to be released from the hospital without major damage.

The crisis intervention service of the Bavarian Mountain Rescue Service with a mountain rescuer from Füssen took care of the patient's wife, who was also in the hut, and the first aiders on site.

According to the mountain rescue service, the real heroes of the operation are the first responders on site, a guest and the hut staff.

According to the mountain rescuers, they did exemplary work.

Boldly and without hesitation, they began cardiopulmonary resuscitation and called the control center on 112 for help.

For ten long minutes, before the rescue workers arrived, they resuscitated the man.

For the mountain rescue emergency doctor, it is clear that the patient would not have had a chance without the courageous action of the first responders.

Even if the mountain rescuers had gotten the heart beating again after ten minutes of standstill, serious brain damage would have been certain, according to the mountain rescue service.

According to her, first responders can only do one thing wrong in such situations, and that is to do nothing.

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