The Sun
HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, England — Dad David Binks staged a miracle recovery after his heart stopped beating for more then 70 minutes. David’s quick-thinking partner, Lynette Crozier, saved him when his heart stopped beating for one hour and 10 minutes.
The rescue started when David went into cardiac arrest at his home in Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear. In a desperate bid to revive him, Lynette began CPR, which medics say saved him.Paramedics, and then hospital staff, continued the resuscitation and shocked him 16 times before his heartbeat returned.
Now, as David, a former groundsman, recovers at home, his family have told of the rescue, on March 10.Mum-of-one Lynette, 22, a former care worker, said: “David was asleep next to me but I woke up and he was gasping for breath and wasn’t responding. I just started shaking him. I knew he had stopped breathing and his heart wasn’t beating and I just called for an ambulance."I started doing CPR and chest compressions until the ambulance got there. It was only for about three minutes but it felt like a lifetime. Our little girl was shouting for her daddy.”
Following the attack, David spent five days on a ventilator in the intensive care unit at Sunderland Royal Hospital before spending 11 days on a ward and two days at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital.
His family, including his daughters Georgia, seven, and Ella, one, were told to brace themselves for the worst as it was extremely likely David would be brain damaged. But he amazed medics with his recovery.
Lynette said: “They said that if David was to wake up he would suffer brain damage but they didn’t know what the extent would be because he was out for so long.”
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