Former England manager Glenn Hoddle on his cardiac arrest at SkyBet and British Heart Foundation launch new initiative to get 270,000 people signed up to give CPR

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former England manager Glenn Hoddle and Simon Daniels who saved his life with CPR.

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00:00This is the frightening thing. This is why this campaign is so, so important.

00:04With the cardiac arrest, there was no science.

00:07Talking to everyone today, that's the problem with this.

00:11It doesn't creep up on you and sort of tap you on the shoulder.

00:15It just happens. And that's what happened to me.

00:18I just collapsed in the BT studios and didn't feel ill or anything like that.

00:23I was working. It was on my birthday of all days.

00:26And if it wasn't for Simon here doing the CPR, I wouldn't be sitting here today.

00:32It's as simple as that. So I can't remember much of the day.

00:36Next thing I, let's say I collapsed, and I woke up in the hospital.

00:41You had a doctor and a nurse looking over me, bewildered as to where I was and why I was there.

00:47We'd just come off the air, so we were on the air till 12.30.

00:52I came out of the sound control room, and Glenn was kicking a football backwards and forwards in the studio with Robbie.

00:57And he just went to kick the football and just fell straight back and went into cardiac arrest.

01:01So my instinct was just to run over, and I could quickly tell that he was in cardiac arrest.

01:08And I started doing CPR and did so for about eight and a half minutes until the ambulance turned up.

01:14Thankfully, this man didn't benefit. That was the key.

01:17I mean, for me, I was just focused on doing the CPR and just going through in my head the checks I needed to do.

01:25And I was shouting to people to get the defibrillator, phone an ambulance.

01:28I think London Ambulance Service said that there's about a dozen calls went into them from various people on the crew.

01:33And the first paramedics were there within seven and a half minutes.

01:37And I carried on doing CPR for about another minute so that they could get all their equipment set up.

01:43And then they took over and obviously took Glenn off to hospital.

01:47So it's the CPR that gives the hospital a chance to do something.

01:51And then, obviously, once the hospital have got you stable, then Glenn could obviously have surgery, which he went to Baths to have done.

01:57But it's that chain of survival.

01:59And this campaign to get more people CPR trained is really, really important.

02:04My nickname for him now is my Earth Angel.

02:09So the only reason why I'm sitting here is because he did what he did with the CPR.

02:14And so quickly, you know, I was a very lucky, lucky person because there's a lot of things that I might have not been there.

02:23I wasn't due to do the show. It got changed.

02:26And then actually on my birthday, you know, to Simon there, he could have gone for a phone call.

02:32I could have gone to the toilet or a phone call, been on my own.

02:35So I was a very, very lucky person.

02:37But more importantly, he knew exactly what he was doing.

02:41And although he broke seven ribs, the nurse did tell me in the hospital weeks afterwards,

02:49that's the sign of a really good CPR, the amount of ribs that you break, which made me laugh at the time.

02:57Please, please, please get the training.

03:00It's 15 minutes of your life.

03:03And as Simon has alluded to today, it's relatively simple.

03:08It's probably more importantly to keep your emotions correct, especially if it's a family member.

03:16They're the difficult things.

03:18But no, and this campaign will save not only one person's life.

03:24We've all said today, if the campaign's worth it, it's going to save one person's life.

03:29It's going to be more than that over the many years that it's come through.

03:33So quite simply, to track it all back down, this man gave me a gift on my birthday.

03:41And that was my life.

03:43Now, people out there, through the training, there's no better thing in life, surely,

03:47than to give someone a gift of their life.

03:50And I think that's quite a point.

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