‘Hero’ stranger saves Calgary man’s life with CPR – Calgary | 24CA News
An off-duty nurse educator is being hailed a hero by the household of a person she saved.
Bob Kury was strolling down a stretch of Arbour Lake Way in Calgary on April fifth when he abruptly collapsed from a coronary heart assault.
“I don’t remember much about the walk at all or the moments before falling. there was no warning,” the 77-year-old stated.
Hayley Lane, an off obligation nurse-educator simply occurred to be driving by.
“I was coming home from work and I saw feet on the ground,” she stated, pointing to the tiny patch of garden the place Kury had fallen face-first. “I have a CPR mask on my key chain so I pulled it out and was able to give Bob some breaths. He was on a good hard surface so I was getting really good recoil.”
Lane and finally one other thriller man labored on Kury till paramedics rushed him to hospital.
“I think I was on his chest within 2 minutes,” Lane explains, which could be very fortunate for Kury given the statistics.
Each minute that goes by the place a affected person goes with out CPR the possibility of survival goes down.
“Our chance of survival goes down eight to 10 per cent every minute,” says First Aid Training Calgary chief government officer Ben Marasco, who encourages folks to develop into licensed each three years. “80 per cent of cardiac arrests happen at home… We’re more likely to give CPR to a loved one than a co-worker.”
Stats additionally present that simply 20 per cent of these skilled are prone to cease and assist.
“I have a lot of skill sets as a nurse this is a skill everyone can do. Everyone can and should know how to do CPR. and be prepared,” says Lane.
Lane didn’t know Kury had survived. Every week glided by and she or he posted to the group Facebook web page looking for solutions. Kury’s daughter messaged her again.
“I said, ‘what? he’s alive?’ I had no idea. Then she sent me some pictures of him and he was three floors below me in the cardiac unit and it was just surreal to know and to see life behind those eyes.”
The Kury’s will rejoice 50 years of marriage in July.
“It’d be a shame if I had missed it,” laughs Kury who clearly nonetheless has his sense of humour.
His spouse Joanne can also be wanting ahead to the celebration, with plans to present CPR keychain masks as occasion favours and welcoming Hayley Lane because the visitor of honour.
“We’ll see if we can organize a CPR workshop,” says Joanne Kury thoughtfully.
And when she’s given the suggestion that Lane will make the proper trainer? “You bet!” she says with a smile. “She’s part of our family now.”
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