The tragedy of the ‘invisible killer’ of the young
Bereaved families are calling for a national cardiac screening programme for over-14s
“When they [paramedics] got to Adam’s side he was cold, blue but the defibrillator was open out of the box next to him but not connected and had they connected it, it would have delivered a shock and told them to carry on CPR, so the device that could have saved him was there but it wasn’t used,” says Adam’s dad, Alastair.
