His gesture arouses admiration. In Combourg, a town on the Ille-et-Vilaine, Guillaume saved the life of a baby who had just suffered a heart attack on the afternoon of September 10.
A couple was preparing to put their three-month-old daughter Aëlia to bed when the little girl felt sick. “Suddenly she screamed and then collapsed.” says his mother Ivy, daily. Western France.
The mother called 15 and began a cardiac massage on the couch, as Samu’s operator advised her.
“Good Samaritans” application
That’s when Guillaume, 37, arrived at the living room. A caregiver in the emergency room of the Rennes university hospital and a volunteer firefighter at the Combourg rescue center, he replaced Ivy and provided first aid.
Unknown to the family, Guillaume is registered in the Stay Alive app, that combines defibrillator card and “Good Samaritans”, volunteers trained in first aid who can intervene close to home if necessary.
“I was calmly on my couch, leaving work and at that moment I received an alert on the app,” Guillaume tells BFMTV.
In his pajamas, he ran out to intervene in the couple’s house. “We go into robot mode. Someone is in respiratory arrest near me, I know the actions I need to take, so I go there,” she testifies.
A few minutes after starting the cardiac massage, the firefighters arrived with a defibrillator. The baby was rushed to the hospital.
Aëlia, who suffered from a heart tumor, underwent surgery and is now out of danger. Samu’s doctors are clear: Guillaume saved the little girl’s life.
Source: BFM TV
