Former French footballer David Ginola has confessed that he was "clinically dead" for more than eight minutes after suffering a cardiac arrest during a charity match in 2016, and explained that Frédéric Mendy was the one who saved his life by performing it on time cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
During a talk with children at Benfield with the Newcastle United Foundation, the French end explained that he almost lost his life during 2016 during a charity match in France, when he suffered a cardiac arrest.
"I am very happy to see that children are taught cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), which can save someone's life. When I collapsed, of the approximately 15 people in the field, only one or two knew how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation. "said Ginola, 53.
The former Paris Saint-Germain, Newcastle, Tottenham or Aston Villa player stressed that it is "very important" that both young people and adults "know what to do if someone they know is in trouble." " I was very lucky that the people around me knew how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation," he said.
"When I collapsed, it was CPR that caused oxygen to reach my brain and saved my life. The cardiac surgeon who operated on me in the hospital told me that without that I would not have survived, " said the Frenchman, who is "completely recovered "after a quadruple bypass .
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