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When FCO player Thibaut Marot collapsed on the pitch in Aisch on Sunday afternoon, Carine Leclercq reacted immediately. The Aischen delegate ran to the young defender’s aid and realised that he was having a heart attack. I’m a trained nurse,’ she says, ’so I started CPR straight away, shouting for the defibrillator and an ambulance. The FCO goalkeeper was already at his side and thought he was having an epileptic seizure. But he wasn’t breathing’.
Fortunately, Carine Leclercq did the right thing and saved Thibaut’s life. ‘But I’d like to stress that I wasn’t alone. It was a collective act, and I didn’t have to ask anyone for anything. Several of us took it in turns to continue the cardiac massages until the emergency doctors arrived. The AED arrived very quickly too. Frankly, everything happened naturally, without too much panic.
Carine can’t stress this enough. Without the defibrillator at the club, there would probably have been a tragedy. And above all without the training,’ she insists. You need an AED in every sports club, but you also need training. Luckily, I was able to do it ten days before at Aische. That enabled me to do the right things and not panic. Even if the machine tells you everything you have to do, when it actually happens, it’s reassuring to know how it works. We still had to shock him four times before help arrived.