Henrik R
A three-month-old baby who had just suffered a cardiac arrest survived thanks to the intervention of a stranger trained in first aid. This man arrived at the family’s home in slippers and pajamas on the night of September 10, 2023.
Guillaume, 37 years old, contributed to saving a three-month-old baby who suffered a cardiac arrest on September 10, 2023, in Combourg, Ile-et-Vilaine.
Alerted by his smartphone and the Staying Alive app, the thirty-something rushed into the night, still in pajamas and flip-flops, according to Ouest-France.
“She wasn’t breathing anymore”
A couple and their two children were preparing to go to bed. The little boy is 2 years old, and the youngest, Aëlia, is just 3 months old. The baby girl was born with a tumor in her heart.
While on her mother’s lap, the baby let out a cry before collapsing: “She wasn’t breathing anymore,” the mother told a Journalist at Ouest-France. She then called 15 (911) and began a cardiac massage on the living room couch, as advised by the SAMU operator.
“I rushed”
A few minutes later, Guillaume arrived at her home.
An emergency nursing assistant at the CHU of Rennes, he is also a volunteer firefighter at the Combourg rescue center. He is registered on the Staying Alive app, which combines a defibrillator map and “good Samaritans,” volunteers trained in first aid who can intervene when needed.
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“I was watching TV when my phone rang. It was the Staying Alive app, to which I am registered, indicating that less than two kilometers from my home, someone was having a cardiac arrest. I didn’t think. I rushed,” shares the thirty-something.
In his car, while calling 15 to confirm that he had received the alert and was on his way, the SAMU operator specifies: “You are going for a 3-month-old child in cardio-respiratory arrest.”
Transported in absolute emergency “The good Samaritan” immediately performed cardiac massage, using only two fingers for a 3-month-old child.
Aëlia was transported an hour later, in absolute emergency, to the South Hospital of Rennes.
“Samu doctors told me that I saved her life. Without the massage, her heart probably wouldn’t have restarted,” confides the very moved thirty-something.
Today, the little miracle girl is still hospitalized in a pediatric rehabilitation service at the Saint-Laurent clinic in Rennes.
She underwent surgery for her tumor and is doing better.
