Immediate first aid prevented death of Gord Fairbairn after he suffered massive heart attack after game at Kin Centre.
When retired Canfor Pulp engineer Gord Fairbairn suffered a massive heart attack last April, quick intervention and his active lifestyle helped him beat the odds and survive that near-fatal incident.
They had just moved Fairbairn flat on his back laying on Shpak’s jacket when city snowplough driver Jason Force drove up. Force, a former lifeguard, followed the instructions of the 9-1-1 operator and put his first aid skills to use, applying chest compressions in between breaths into Fairbairn’s mouth, while Rusty Nuts player Mark Barlow ran to grab the portable defibrillator from the Kin 1 timekeeper’s bench.
Force learned later from one of the firefighters at the scene that he did not have his hand ideally positioned to massage Fairbairn’s heart, but his quick actions kept him alive. Firefighters soon arrived and took over CPR treatment. Still detecting no pulse, they got out a defibrillator and had to use it four or five times to shock Fairbairn’s chest before his heart started beating again. He was rushed to the hospital and spent the night at UHNBC before he was flown to Vancouver the following morning.
“I couldn’t believe it because I felt good before and felt good when I woke up, so I was like, ‘no, you guys are joking with me,’ I had no inkling ahead of time,” said Fairbairn. “I felt fine and I had no pain at all and no heart issues and no breathing issues. I was kind of lucky that way.” “Sometimes I get a little dizzy on the ice if I get going too hard and I think that’s from my low blood pressure,” he said. “That happened in BMX too. Typically, I was the first to recover and now I’m the last guy to recover, but I’m still going. It’s still enjoyable.Shpak, Parmar and Force were told back in April by Fairbairn’s daughter that he had survived his heart attack and they were relieved to learn he’s back doing what he does best with the Rusty Nuts.
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