NUHS team commended for saving man on train
Published: 08 Nov 2016
A couple of Medicine students and an alumnus who along with two nurses successfully revived a cardiac arrest victim on October 28, were conferred the Public Spiritedness Award by the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) on November 8.
When the man collapsed on board a train, Phase III students Peter Daniel and Kelvin Wui performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPF) and monitored his vital signs, joining two NUH nurses who also happened to be on the same train. Dr Peng Kailing, an NUS Medicine alumnus working at the NUH, also assisted SCDF paramedics in monitoring and stabilising the patient at the train platform and en-route to the NUH, where the man was successfully treated.
It was Kelvin’s second time saving a person in Singapore. He performed CPR on an elderly man a year ago. “When I saw a group of people on the train, I knew something was wrong. Since I am trained, I should help in any way I can. That’s why I joined the medical school for.”
According to SCDF Commander Colonel Alan Chow, the survival rate for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation in Singapore is only 3 to 4%.
“The group of life-savers is very commendable, because of their quick thinking and decisive actions of doing CPR. This is really a classic case where we have people with the right mind set & right pace together to perform the resuscitation.”
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