Heart-warming moment children cheer with excitement and weep as headteacher returns – after his life was saved by a defibrillator he installed at their school
- Nick Sheeran suffered cardiac arrest seven months ago at school in Southport
- He was given first aid by staff who used the defibrillator within 32 seconds
This is the heart-warming moment children cheer and weep as their headteacher returns after his life was saved by a defibrillator installed at their school.
Nick Sheeran suffered a cardiac arrest seven months ago at Birkdale Primary School in Southport.
He was given first aid by staff members who used the defibrillator provided by Mark King, whose 12-year-old son Oliver died in 2011 after suffering heart failure.
Over the last 11 years Mr King has been installing defibrillators in schools following the tragic death of his son during a swimming lesson at King David High School in Childwall, Liverpool.
Mr Sheeran is the 68th person who has survived after being treated with defibrillator provided by the Oliver King Foundation, which has fitted more than 6,000 defibrillators across the UK.
Nick Sheeran suffered a cardiac arrest seven months ago at Birkdale Primary School in Southport. His colleagues saved his life using a defibrillator
Oliver King, 12, died in 2011 after suffering heart failure during a swimming lesson at King David High School in Childwall, Liverpool
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In the video one young pupil can be seen weeping with joy before Mr Sheeran comforts him with a pat on the shoulders.
When Mr Sheeran collapsed, his colleagues – who were trained by Mr King – used the machine within 32 seconds.
According to The British Heart Foundation a defibrillator is a device that gives a high energy electric shock to the heart of someone who is in cardiac arrest.
The device increases the chance of cardiac arrest survival by more than 40 per cent if they are used on the patient within three to five minutes.
Mr Sheeran said: ‘I’m the luckiest head teacher on the planet and so grateful to everyone and the part that they played in saving my life.
‘I’m raring to go,’ he told BBC Breakfast.
Mr King said it was a ‘very emotional’ day and that he was ‘ecstatic’ that the defibrillator he had provided had saved Mr Sheeran’s life.
One young pupil sobbed with joy as his headteacher walked into the assembly hall
‘He’s like our Ollie, people just warmed to him,’ he said.
In January this year the Department of Education (DfE) confirmed that all 20,000 state schools in England will be given a defibrillator by the end of this academic year.
The DfE hopes the move will save the lives of pupils, staff and school visitors.
Schools are already required to teach first aide as part of the curriculum, with secondary school pupils being taught CPR and about defibrillators.
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