{"id":762682,"date":"2026-09-07T08:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T08:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762682\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T08:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T08:34:12","slug":"man-given-second-chance-after-cardiac-arrest-in-stratford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762682\/","title":{"rendered":"Man given &#8216;second chance&#8217; after cardiac arrest in Stratford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man who suffered a cardiac arrest while driving has become the first patient at University Hospital Coventry to receive an innovative new heart treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cameron Mair, 33, was driving over Clopton Bridge in Stratford-upon-Avon on 21 July when went into cardiac arrest, and had to be pulled out of his car by a passing driver, who performed CPR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was fitted with an Extravascular Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (EV-ICD), which monitors the heartbeat and delivers small electrical signals if it picks up abnormal rhythms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mair said he was &#8220;very nervous&#8221; before the procedure but afterwards he felt &#8220;great&#8221; and now had extra protection for the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I feel very well, it has given me a second chance &#8211; I have got two little boys so I am trying to do everything I can with them,&#8221; he told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mair said a woman driving past saw him struggling in the car, pulled him out and started CPR while her father ran down to the Boathouse restaurant for help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luckily the restaurant had a defibrillator and one of the employees from the restaurant raced to the bridge to help him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They pretty much saved me, and then the ambulance came and took me to Coventry,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who suffered a cardiac arrest while driving has become the first patient at University Hospital Coventry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-762682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}