PhilTheFragger
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That’s a tough one Brian, all you can do is your best, at least you gave him a chance.A very different end to a lovely evening, sad rather than an irritation.
Out for a meal with friends. Part way through dessert a guy on another table starts to choke. The slap on the back doesn’t work. They shout for help. I go over and try the Heimlich manoeuvre without success. Tip him forward and give him a few hard ‘thumps’ to the back. The guy is unconscious at this point. Up comes his dentures and a fair bit of blood.
He slowly starts to come round but he’s not in great shape, there’s an ambulance on the way. Pulse is thready and he’s starting to look very pale, which is hard for a Spaniard, and he slips back into unconsciousness. We keep talking to him, trying to get a response, but I’m struggling to get a pulse - a few widely spaced beats then nothing, and then repeat.
Ambulance arrives, including a doc. A quick check and all hell breaks loose. Oxygen, monitoring, suction and then the defib. Chest compressions then more defib. Still flatlining on the monitor. Wait, a pulse… onto the stretcher and into the ambulance. A good 15 minutes before they move off but, thankfully, with its lights on. It gets 200m down the road and pulls in. Eventually it moves off with the lights off.
I’m knackered, flat. A quick brandy, pay the bill and home - last to leave at 9:45pm.
Sorry, head’s all over this morning….
Have another brandy mate