The quick-acting staff of a pharmacy in Limerick, Ireland recently saved a man’s life with an AED following a car accident.
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Fortunately for the patient, employees at DocMorris Pharmacy on William Street in Limerick had just received life-saving training on the AED a few days earlier.
Pharmacy manager Linda O’Brien said they were trained how to use the defibrillator on Tuesday and the accident happened right after lunch on Friday. “We were lucky the accident didn’t occur a week earlier when we were not equipped with an AED.”
It is believed the middle-aged man went into sudden cardiac arrest while driving up the street and crashed his vehicle into an unmarked Garda (Irish police) car.
Passersby alerted the pharmacy staff who rushed to the scene and retrieved their portable defibrillator as soon as they saw the victim’s condition.
Pharmacist Fatima Sadek used the AED to deliver a shock until paramedics arrived.
he man is expected to make a full recovery in a nearby hospital.
“We never thought we would have to use the AED so soon. The AED guided us through every step of the way,” said O’Brien. “I never realized how important AEDs were until the incident. Every business should have one.”
