A woman who suffered a sudden cardiac arrest while jogging was saved by a courageous passer-by who knew how to perform CPR. Eleri Daniel, from Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, collapsed just minutes into her run and stopped breathing.
A cardiac consultant was driving by at the time and saw her on the floor. He acted quickly by dialling 999 and starting CPR on her straight away before an air ambulance could arrive to give her shocks of a defibrillator.
Eleri, who was 47 at the time, was taken to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff where she woke up two days later with no recollection of what had happened. It transpired that she was living with an undiagnosed heart condition which could easily have claimed her life that day.
