THROB Defilbrilator saves 15 year old boys life
Two heroic Magnet
Leisure Centre employees saved a 15-year-old boy's life on Saturday after he
collapsed on a treadmill and his heart stopped beating.
Teenager Stephen Proffitt has suffered from a serious heart condition since
birth and had a cardiac arrest while exercising at the centre in Holmanleaze.
Deputy manager Daniel Houston and senior recreation assistant Phil Starr raced
to his side and used their first aid training and the centre's £1,500 defibrillator
machine purchased by THROB to bring him back to life. Paramedic's said the
men's quick-thinking saved him and the boy's father David has personally
thanked them and branded them 'heroes' but they have both said they were 'just
doing their job'.
Stephen, of Shirley Road Maidenhead, was born with a rare heart condition
called Truncus Arteriosus in which one of the two main arteries in his heart
failed to develop.
He was later transferred from Wexham Park Hospital to Great Ormond Street and
doctors were considering whether to implant a permanent defibrillator into his
chest.
It is clear
without the generous support THROB invests in your local Lesiure facilities and
training the outcome may have been different.