A GAME of indoor cricket went balls-up after a man suffered a cardiac arrest in Footscray last week.
Laverton North and Footscray paramedics were called to an indoor cricket centre when a 47-year-old man collapsed after playing a game of cricket just before 10pm last Monday week.
The Footscray ambulance arrived four minutes later and began CPR.
Intensive care paramedic Daniel Gebeyehu said the man had stopped breathing and his heart had stopped beating.
“His airway was supported and he was given oxygen,” Mr Gebeyehu said.
“CPR was continued while paramedics prepared to use a defibrillator to deliver a small electric shock to the man’s heart, to put it back into a normal rhythm.”
The man was taken to the Western Hospital in a critical condition.
He was later transferred by ambulance to St Vincent’s Hospital and is now in a stable condition.
