Defibrillator installed on Everest winds up saving climber's life just weeks later

A antheral who climbed Mount Everest to instal a defibrillator determination says the instrumentality coiled up saving a woman’s life conscionable 3 weeks afterward.

David Sullivan, 62, made the travel to the Himalayas to spot the lifesaving instrumentality connected the mountain.

He believes it is the world's highest-positioned defibrillator, sitting much than 16,000 feet supra oversea level, according to quality bureau SWNS.

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After losing 4 adjacent friends — each nether property 45 — to abrupt cardiac arrest, Sullivan founded Code Blue CPR.

He began traveling the globe arsenic an advocator to supply CPR training and instal life-saving instrumentality successful hard-to-reach places.

David Sullivan, 62, pictured here, made the travel to the Himalayas to spot the lifesaving instrumentality connected the mountain. (David Sullivan / SWNS)

Earlier this year, Sullivan climbed to an altitude of 22,000 feet to trial a defibrillator.

He past descended to a colony adjacent Everest Base Camp to instal it for exigency use.

Sullivan returned location to Surrey connected April 30, gladsome astir what he'd accomplished — but with nary thought however rapidly his enactment would marque an impact.

Just 3 weeks later, helium got a telephone call.

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"It was … Friday (May 23), astatine astir 3:45 a.m.," Sullivan told SWNS. "I person kids traveling the world, truthful I initially thought, ‘Oh my God, something's happened.’"

He added, "But it was a Sherpa [a Tibetan upland guide] who told maine the defibrillator had been activated and saved a 30-year-old woman's life," Sullivan said. "It was the proudest infinitesimal of my life."

"I anticipation it volition assistance radical recognize however important it is to person entree to defibrillators."

The rescue confirmed wherefore he'd taken connected the physically and emotionally demanding journey.

While successful the Himalayas, Sullivan didn’t conscionable instal the defibrillator - helium besides trained section Sherpas and villagers, galore of whom had ne'er received exigency aesculapian instruction, according to SWNS.

"It is unthinkable that thing truthful elemental tin prevention someone's beingness - and I anticipation it volition assistance radical recognize however important it is to person entree to defibrillators," Sullivan said.

While successful the Himalayas, Sullivan didn’t conscionable instal the defibrillator - helium besides trained section Sherpas and villagers, galore of whom had ne'er received immoderate benignant of exigency aesculapian instruction. (David Sullivan / SWNS)

"Being wrong 3 minutes of a defibrillator increases your accidental of endurance from 8% to much than 50%," helium added.

For Sullivan, there's different idiosyncratic angle. 

"It was the proudest infinitesimal of my life."

He erstwhile had to usage his CPR grooming conscionable months aft learning it himself. "I performed 9 minutes of CPR for a young antheral and utilized a defibrillator conscionable 3 months aft I had been shown however to," helium told SWNS.

"While I was doing this, astir 30 radical conscionable watched and didn't assistance - due to the fact that they didn't cognize how."

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When the young man's parent called him the adjacent time to accidental her lad was alive, Sullivan said it changed his life.

"I knew past that everyone should cognize however to save a life," Sullivan said. 

Now, Sullivan wants to dedicate himself to reshaping others' lives.

"Being wrong 3 minutes of a defibrillator increases your accidental of endurance from 8% to much than 50%," said Sullivan, pictured supra performing CPR connected a grooming Manikin.  (David Sullivan / SWNS)

He is moving guardant with a program to bid 1.2 cardinal students successful CPR done a schoolhouse initiative.

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"We privation each schoolhouse to person a caller defibrillator and each idiosyncratic successful the schoolhouse - students, teachers, unit - to person each the grooming indispensable to prevention someone's life," helium told SWNS.

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"We won't halt until we execute that," helium besides said.