An off-duty nurse today told how he “acted on instinct” to save the life of a man who had stopped breathing after collapsing at the wheel of a car.
NHS worker Jack Stevens, 37, below, was driving back from the supermarket when he spotted a blue Ford Focus driving erratically before coming to a halt.
He had a “gut feeling” something was wrong with the driver, pulled over, and realised the man had suffered a cardiac arrest.
The father-of-two managed to wind down the driver’s window to pull him from his car, and performed CPR for 15 minutes.
He said: “My wife is a paramedic so we had some equipment in the back.” When police arrived, the nurse used a defibrillator. “We managed to get his pulse back and by then the air ambulance had arrived.”
Mr Stevens, a nurse at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, visited the man in hospital after the incident in Ongar Road in Brentwood, Essex, on September 4. “He was in tears … He was so thankful,” he said.
