ANOTHER HAPPY END💪 ♥ ️❗

“On Monday, 11.01. we received a report that another life had been saved the day before, thanks to the coordinated activity of our dispatchers, mobile teams and the patient's relatives.
Namely, the daughter of the patient called an ambulance because her father lost consciousness and stopped breathing. Of course, the ambulance team goes to the given address, but our dispatchers, not wanting those precious minutes per patient to be irretrievably lost, keep their daughter in touch and coordinate by phone how to start basic life support measures for her father, ie to start resuscitation. While our team rushed to the address, the daughter resuscitated the father, maintained some kind of tissue perfusion, which will prove to be enough for our team to have "stuff" on arrival to continue advanced life support measures and apply electric shock, ie successfully defibrillate the patient. The heart began to beat spontaneously again. After stabilization, the patient was transported to KCUS with adequate medical supervision, but unfortunately still unconscious. The days passed in anticipation. And finally, yesterday, Friday 15.01. we receive information that the patient, thanks to the Almighty, has awakened from an unconscious state.
Indeed, knowledge of the basic measures of life support (BLS course) is something that is very necessary for our fellow citizens. We wrote that based on research in the EU, the average is that in 58% of cases, a layman approaches a victim with outpatient cardiac arrest and starts resuscitation on the spot. Unfortunately, according to our data, it is only 1% of lay eyewitnesses in KS. Tarik Helic almost left us, due to a sudden cardiac arrest, without anyone doing anything until the ambulance arrived. We all just miss this.
We in the Sarajevo Ambulance have a ready project of educating students of all high schools in KS from basic life support measures, according to the recommendations of the European Declaration on Awareness of Outpatient Cardiac arrest adopted by the European Parliament in 2012. Unfortunately, the Covid-19 pandemic stopped us from doing that, but we will start with that as soon as possible.
Thank you to the ambulance team, thank you to the ambulance dispatchers led by Dr. Jasna Music-Huseinbegović, thank you to colleagues from KCUS, for another saved life of our fellow citizen. "
Ambulance Sarajevo - the pride of the city of Sarajevo!
Mr.sci.med.dr Adem Zalihić, director of JU ZHMP KS