Horrifying moment emergency services desperately try to save rugby players life on pitch after cardiac arrest

YORKSHIRE Air 999 saw a horrifying infinitesimal hap wherever exigency services desperately tried to prevention a rugby players beingness connected the pitch, pursuing a cardiac arrest.

It happened aft a regular rugby league took a unspeakable crook arsenic 48-year-old manager Lee Garside collapsed and faced the menace of a cardiac arrest.

The Air Ambulance unit rushed to prevention him, aft his teammates called 999 from the country successful Yorkshire.

They said implicit the telephone earlier the ambulance arrived: “He’s collapsed, and he’s passed out...I’m doing CPR connected him close present arsenic we’re talking.

Luckily, the aerial ambulance unit were capable to get successful a accelerated effect conveyance successful conscionable 4 minutes.

Updating them connected the situation, Lee’s teammates said: “‘He’s been successful and retired of consciousness, and (his) breathing keeps stopping.”

The aerial ambulance unit are seen doing 5 shocks with the defibrillator, and walk 10 minutes trying to revive Lee done CPR.

And they were palmy successful their mission, aft swift enactment and a instrumentality of spontaneous circulation.

The harrowing country is captured connected the sixth occurrence of Yorkshire Air 999, which airs connected Friday 7 February astatine 9pm connected Really.

As they took Lee to hospital, the paramedics warned that helium wasn’t “out of the woods,” adding: “He’s had a truly superior lawsuit and it’s inactive ongoing astatine that point. Patients volition re-arrest connected you, truthful I’m mindful of that with Lee connected this occasion.”

And conscionable earlier they get astatine the hospital, Lee starts seizing, with unit believing it was down to deficiency of oxygen to his encephalon during the cardiac arrest.

Luckily for Lee, upon accomplishment astatine the infirmary the clang squad were waiting and helium was fitted with an ICD (Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator).

Just 8 weeks after, Lee experienced different cardiac apprehension portion watching TV, and helium said erstwhile speaking astir it aft recovering: “My bosom started going to 1 side, and it conscionable gave maine a massive, monolithic kick.”

On the show, Lee gets affectional arsenic helium acknowledgment everyone for their life-saving efforts.

He added: “Without them guys I astir apt wouldn’t person been present today.”