4Apr2016 Guest Speaker - Sean Purcell
Posted by Rudi Schols
During a morning run, Sean Purcell's heart stopped beating. He collapsed and landed face first in the water on White's Beach, Torquay, Victoria. What happened next was truly remarkable.
A group of quick-thinking locals came together to administer life-saving CPR that kept Sean alive long enough to enable Paramedics to stabilize him and airlift him to Hospital.
Sean's prognosis was bleak; if he was to survive, doctors thought he was likely to suffer permanent brain damage. But Sean survived and thrived. On Monday night Shaun told us his story: the collapse, the five-day coma, the journey of recovery and his quest to find and thank the locals who saved his life, which went global!
Sean is now committed to sharing this story, hoping to shed light on the importance of CPR training and accessibility to public defibrillators. In his role with Cotton On community projects, he has headed up The Unite Project, putting a water bottle to market that will assist in housing homeless youth Australia wide.
A group of quick-thinking locals came together to administer life-saving CPR that kept Sean alive long enough to enable Paramedics to stabilize him and airlift him to Hospital.
Sean's prognosis was bleak; if he was to survive, doctors thought he was likely to suffer permanent brain damage. But Sean survived and thrived. On Monday night Shaun told us his story: the collapse, the five-day coma, the journey of recovery and his quest to find and thank the locals who saved his life, which went global!
Sean is now committed to sharing this story, hoping to shed light on the importance of CPR training and accessibility to public defibrillators. In his role with Cotton On community projects, he has headed up The Unite Project, putting a water bottle to market that will assist in housing homeless youth Australia wide.
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