"I feel unwell", then the collapse in front of the incredulous eyes of friends while spending a leisurely morning at the beach. It happened today around lunchtime on the beach tennis court in front of the Altamarea establishment, on the Quartese coast: the protagonist is a 50-year-old tourist who fell ill while playing beach tennis and was saved thanks to the intervention of the lifeguard who revived him with the defibrillator.
The presence of the lifeguard enabled to use the defibrillator was decisive, as he managed to intervene in a few seconds avoiding the worst.
«Around noon a colleague suddenly warned us that a person had fallen ill while playing beach tennis», Giuseppe Gabriele Murru , lifeguard at the Altamarea beach establishment and contact person for the stretch of beach, said shortly after the rescue, «I flew to take the defibrillator and I immediately rushed to the camp».
There were those who were already practicing cardiac cardiac massage and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, "at which point I opened the defibrillator, placed the paddles on the man's chest, made everyone move away and gave the first shock". After a few seconds, the fifty-year-old tourist started breathing on his own again , then a medicalized ambulance from the Marino hospital arrived and Mike was stabilized and transferred to the hospital for the necessary medical checks.
