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200 Newcastle College students learn to save lives as ambulance service reunites with cardiac arrest survivor

More than 200 students at Newcastle College are learning lifesaving CPR skills this Restart a Heart Day, as North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) reunites with a woman whose life was saved by CPR after she suffered a cardiac arrest at work.

L - R - Iain Shaw, Claire Shearer, Heidi Crosby, Roger Crosby, Ebony Tweddle, Dustin Norris, Thomas Montillaro

Patient reunited with ambulance crew who helped save his life after cardiac arrest at Byker Asda

A North East man who suffered a cardiac arrest while buying his lunch has been reunited with the ambulance service colleagues who helped save his life – after a remarkable chain of events gave him a chance of survival.