A Scottish mum who performed chest compressions on her 11-year-old son after he stopped breathing following a cardiac arrest in a swimming pool has said it was "one of the most traumatic experiences of my life".
Martina McGeehan, 45, added that "it was awful - absolutely horrendous" and said that her son Leonardo Osorio McGeehan "was gone" after his heart stopped beating and she started frantically doing CPR - cardiopulmonary resuscitation, an emergency chest compression procedure.
But as a result of the near tragedy, the medics also diagnosed that the lad suffered from Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, where the heart has extra tissue that causes palpitations.
