cardiac arrest

A defibrillator is a device that is used to give an electric shock to the heart of someone who is suffering a cardiac arrest.

Elle suffered skull fractures and a cardiac arrest, and was pronounced dead in hospital an hour after the attack.

Coroner Crispin Oliver concluded it was "highly likely" Mr Morris, who suffered a cardiac arrest, would have survived had available specialist medical treatment been applied in a "timely manner".

A subsequent post-mortem examination on Mr Rollinson revealed he had significant heart disease and would have most likely been "at risk of a sudden cardiac arrest at any time".

It was also told the father-of-five experienced a cardiac arrest in the ambulance, which Mrs Morris directed to the hospital because the driver did not know the way.