Emergency Cases

CPR performed by gangsters?


Working in an emergency centre allows me a chance to meet people from all walks of lives.

"You guys were so smart, you saved my life. Doctors said my heart had stopped, it was you guys who saved me."

"Hey big bro, it’s lucky that Jimmy knows first aid, and he taught us. Jimmy says the world never stop changing. If we don’t upgrade ourselves, we will always be labeled as street gangs!"

"Unbelievable!"

"The first aid method that we performed on you was called Hands-Only CPR, it was quite easy. Jimmy learnt it from the Internet."

"How was I saved actually?"

"That day you felt unconscious after having a big fight with your son. Jimmy told me to call 999 immediately, and he performed CPR on you. He gave you a chest compression at a rate of 120 per minute, which was 2 pushes per second, until the ambulance men came."

"Did he do a mouth-to-mouth on me?"

"Big bro, that’s disgusting!"

"Wow, since when do you speak English?"

"You said you planned to go into legitimate business, I felt that I should upgrade myself in order to assist you. Do you know the first aid video was also in English?"

Vinnie Jones's Hands Only CPR is available on YouTube at http://youtu.be/ILxjxfB4zNk

By Dr Ho Kin Kei
Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Union Hospital
[19/3/2014, AM730]

(This article is translated from Dr Ho Kin Kei’s original article in Chinese.)