3 dead during workouts

Biff11

Did anyone read this article in The Herald last night?

http://www.herald.ie/national-news/city-news/three-die-during-workouts-at-gym-1599065.html

Makes you wonder should you bring your own water instead of drinking out of their fountains!!!!

gaz wac

Jees, im dying to get back to the gym :eek: !!

Degsy

They guy who died in total fitness castleknock suddenly complained of feeling ill during a game of squash.He sat down and suddenly keeled over.
The staff have a defibrilator and they opened it up,it starts talking and it instructed them not to use it as he still had a very weak pulse.
An ambulance arrived shortly afterwards and gave him an injection but he was dead at this stage.
From what i heard he didnt suffer a heart attack as such but something electrical in his heart stopped working.The doctor in the hospital said he would have passed any heart function test earlier that morning!

kevpants

Degsy wrote: »

They guy who died in total fitness castleknock suddenly complained of feeling ill during a game of squash.He sat down and suddenly keeled over.
The staff have a defibrilator and they opened it up,it starts talking and it instructed them not to use it as he still had a very weak pulse.
An ambulance arrived shortly afterwards and gave him an injection but he was dead at this stage.
From what i heard he didnt suffer a heart attack as such but something electrical in his heart stopped working.The doctor in the hospital said he would have passed any heart function test earlier that morning!

The defribulator started talking?

Maybe it was a gas leak in the squash court that killed him and they were all off their box trying to save him.

g'em

kevpants wrote: »

The defribulator started talking?

They do!! Any of the first aid type defibs which most public places carry (by law?) like gyms, airports, big shopping centres etc. are really no-brainer kinds of things. You place the pads on, the defib reads the heart-rate and it will only work and start talking to you ("Shocking... now" in a faux yank accent) if there's an erratic heart beat i.e. arrhythmia. If there's a normal heartbeat (irrespective of strength) or no heart beat, the defib won't work.

AARRRGH

Does anyone know if this sort of thing is common - people dropping dead in the gym - but doesn't normally make it into the newspapers?

kevpants

g'em wrote: »

They do!! Any of the first aid type defibs which most public places carry (by law?) like gyms, airports, big shopping centres etc. are really no-brainer kinds of things. You place the pads on, the defib reads the heart-rate and it will only work and start talking to you ("Shocking... now" in a faux yank accent) if there's an erratic heart beat i.e. arrhythmia. If there's a normal heartbeat (irrespective of strength) or no heart beat, the defib won't work.

Completely off topic but as I was reading that I got to the word Arrhythmia and (I'm working form home today) on the tele in the background someone said "Arrhythmia". Just thought I'd share. I thought the tele was talking to me or something.

Oryx

This shocked the hell out of me, its something you dont consider happening, do you? And what a PR disaster for those gyms, their new slogan should be 'what doesnt kill you, makes you stronger'.

The only similar cases Ive heard of are stories of (usually) young lads dying on a football pitch of SADS or something.

I thought the tele was talking to me or something.

As opposed to the difibrillator.

kevpants

Oryx wrote: »

This shocked the hell out of me

As opposed to the defribulator!


Zzzzzzzing!

Malteaser!

AARRRGH wrote: »

Does anyone know if this sort of thing is common - people dropping dead in the gym - but doesn't normally make it into the newspapers?

It happened in Westpoint (just up from the road one of the TFs in the article) about 2 - 3 weeks before the guy died on the squah court. He had been on the treadmill, collapsed and died a couple of days later.