THIS is the shocking moment a woman nearly died from a heart attack while using a rowing machine in the gym.
Emily Counter, 21, from Queensland, was working out when collapsed onto the floor after suffering a seizure – and she now wants to make defibrillators mandatory in all gyms.
Staff at the Anytime Fitness Noosa on the Sunshine Coast can be seen rushing to help the young girl and trying to save her life.
Gym owner Aaron Petterson said Emily started to go blue, and he and member Ben Duffy quickly used a defibrillator to administer CPR to start Emily’s heart again.
She was eventually rushed to Noosa Hospital, where she was in a coma for three days.
Emily was diagnosed with Bland-White-Garland Syndrome (BWGS), which is a rare disease concerning the anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary trunk.
The condition affects one in 300,000 births, and without surgical repair typically results in death in infancy.
Emily managed to live 20 years unaware she had the heart condition.
She told the Courier Mail: “I was getting heart pain and I was struggling breathing when I was running, way before I had this happen, and I thought I just wasn’t fit enough.
“I’ve got a completely re-plumbed heart now, so it’s basically like a brand new heart.”
Just four months after potentially life-threatening moment, Emily has been allowed to exercise once more.
She now wants defibrillators to be mandatory in every gym, after they helped to save her life.
HOW DO DEFIBRILLATORS WORK AND WHERE CAN YOU FIND THEM?
Defibrillator machines deliver an electric shock to restart the heart if a patient goes into cardiac arrest.
It is estimated the devices could save around 7,000 lives a year.
The devices are portable and can be stored in any number of locations such as schools, offices and shops.
Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) cost around £750 to £1,300 each. They can also be hired by some firms from around £18 a month.
Experts say the quick use of an AED along with CPR gives an unresponsive person the best chance of survival.
The government has spent at least £2million paying for them to be installed at sports centres, GP surgeries, shopping centres and village halls.
Now the British Heart Foundation, the NHS and Microsoft are working together on a 12-month project to create a map of all AED locations in the UK.
St John Ambulance says anyone can use an AED with no training.
The machine analyses the patient’s heart rhythm and uses visual or voice prompts to guide you through each step.
She said: “If I didn’t have it [at my old gym] then I probably wouldn’t be alive.
“It saved my life and it will definitely save someone else’s.”
Gym owner Aaron said: “One of the young members just came running to me and said ‘something’s happened to a girl.
“Em was just laying on the ground. She just wouldn’t respond.
“Thank God. That thing (defibrillator) is just absolutely brilliant and was able to save her life in the end.”
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Heart disease is where the blood vessels that supply the heart with blood narrow, increases the risk of a heart attack, angina and stroke.
A heart attack is where the artery is blocked, preventing blood from getting through – and a ischaemic stroke is where a blood vessel in the brain becomes blocked in a similar way.
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