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Did the same thing to an old lady who collapsed coming out the The Lord High Admiral one winter in Church Street Paddington.She was gasping for breath and then collapsed in front of me and stopped breathing. Her old man said,'I fink she's gawn officer'.
My colleague and I threw our greatcoats in the snow and lept into action. PC Hurst and I gave CPR for about an hour. The ambulance station was 3 mins walk around the corner in Lyons Place.
She started breathing and then stopped. Eventually the ambulance arrived and sent off to St Mary's Paddington. Our cunning,sneaky D.O. had been watching round the corner but didn't come and give us a hand. He went round later to the Casualty Officer to ask for a statement as he was going to nominate us for a Royal Humane Society award. The C,O. was not amused, 'Oh blimey Mr Inspector sir ,those bloody cowboys of yours nearly killed the dear woman. She was asthmatic,forgotten her steroid inhaler and was hyperventilating, She now has multiple broken ribs and didn't need CPR in anycase. She would of started breathing on her own once her Oxygeg/nitrogen had levelled out.'
Ooooo er. They forgot to tell us about that when we were making love to Resusi -Anne back in the classroom and we never got our Inhumane Society award either.!!