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It's a day she will remember for a long time. Last July, Jennifer saved a man who was having a heart attack on the side of the road. Taken care of by the firefighters after very long minutes where Jennifer massaged his heart to make it start again, the man is alive today.

But beyond this very beautiful gesture, the young woman especially remembers the importance of knowing the gestures that save. She tells us.

What happened this Friday July 26?

I was on vacation in the south of France. That day I was in the car with my mom, she was the one driving. We passed by a car where a man was lying near his trailer. I thought he was checking something. But I looked in the rear view mirror and found it odd that it wasn't moving. We stopped to look and when I got to him, he was still breathing but unconscious.

A gentleman arrived at the same time and there I noticed that he was having a cardio-respiratory arrest.

How did you react at that moment?

I immediately started giving him cardiac massage. I am a nurse at the Smur of the Coulommiers hospital, I know the actions to practice but I quickly realized that this was not the case of the other people who had approached to help us. Surely panicked by the situation, the first gentleman was unable to dial 18 to call the firefighters.

Did you massage the victim until help arrived?

No, we had to take turns. Doing a cardiac massage is very exhausting, it requires a lot of strength. To be effective, you have to do it for two minutes and then get replaced. But none of the people present knew how to do it. I had to show them by standing above them so they could place their hands correctly. And I tapped mine to keep them in rhythm. It took almost 20 minutes for the firefighters to arrive.

Have you heard from the victim since?

Yes ! He is alive. I should have met him on Saturday October 26, near Fréjus, but because of the floods in the Var that could not happen.

A few weeks ago, my mother saw a post on a Facebook group from someone looking for the nurse who gave her boss CPR. And if this person was in the group, the family wanted to meet them.

Without this message, I would never have known if he is still alive or not. Medical confidentiality dictates that we do not give this kind of information.

What do you remember from this experience? What message do you want to send?

It is important to train in first aid and I will campaign for that! In the panic, the first gentleman who stopped couldn't even dial 18, even though raising the alarm is the first thing to do. I was scared that no one knew how to do cardiac massage.

This story didn't happen to me for nothing. I started researching with firefighters, the Red Cross and the White Cross to find training in first aid.

I think that cities should offer this type of training to their residents and that it is essential to teach young people the number to dial in the event of an accident, and to give their name and address to emergency services.

People are not trained or informed enough on the subject.

As a reminder: the fire brigade number is 18. On a mobile phone, the emergency number to dial is 112

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