A superfit teacher with a heart condition was shocked to find her medical records instructing paramedics not to give CPR if she suffered a cardiac arrest. Fiona McVey, 44, is now demanding to know if health authorities are routinely marking files with such instructions due to the current NHS crisis.
Primary school teacher Fiona, from Clydebank, was taken to hospital in an ambulance after an infection caused a flare-up in a heart arrhythmia. She was stunned when a paramedic noted that her medical file was marked in February 2020 as DNACPR (do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation) which would mean leaving her to die if she had a cardiac arrest.
Fiona ordered husband Scott to follow the ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow in case the nightmare scenario happened. In the end Fiona received routine treatment and was allowed to go home six hours after being admitted on Wednesday last week.
