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Off-duty UHN nurse helps resuscitate man
after heart attack
It was a warm, summer Sunday
morning when Hailey Couroux was
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suddenly awoken from a deep sleep
by her alarmed mother. Hailey, a
Registered Nurse in Toronto General
Hospital’s General Internal Medicine unit (GIM),
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was urgently needed outside where someone had
collapsed.
Minutes earlier, Hailey’s mother had noticed a lot of
unusual noise in the field behind their house. When
she looked out, she noticed a man was down and the
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people around him were trying to perform CPR.
“She burst into my room and said, ‘I think someone is
in cardiac arrest!’” explains Hailey.
“I jumped out of bed, ran downstairs, and as I was
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about to run outside, I realized I didn’t have pants on!
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Hailey Couroux, a nurse for nearly two years, explained that helping
a man after a cardiac arrest in a park was very different compared to
helping patients alongside a medical team in hospital. (Photo: UHN)
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So my mom just handed me the pyjama pants she was
wearing.”
The man on the ground was Alistair Kinnear. He had
experienced cardiac arrest during a weekly soccer
game with friends. Hailey, in collaboration with two
St. John Ambulance Burlington Branch volunteers
present at the game, saved Alistair’s life that day.
Alistair has recovered since this incident in the
beginning of July, and he is now playing soccer again.
“It’s not often that one sees the community act in
concert as it did the morning of my heart attack,” says
Alistair. “Everyone knew precisely what to do, and did
it unthinkingly.
“For that, my family and I will be eternally grateful.”
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Olympic bronze golden moment for mom
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Nerissa Maxwell is tremendously Last winter, having already booked her holidays to be
proud her son won a bronze medal at able to be in Rio to cheer on Brendon if he secured
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the Summer Olympics. his spot on Team Canada, Nerissa fell ill. She was
But more than anything, she’s just diagnosed with a brain aneurysm and underwent
thankful she lived to see him compete surgery. It was successful and she is on the long road
for Canada in Rio. to recovery, getting stronger daily.
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“It’s exciting,” Nerissa, a UHN employee since 1989 earlier this month to Brazil to support Brendon as
who is nurse manager of 5B Fell at Toronto Western he competed in the 200 metres and the relay, Nerissa
Hospital (TWH), says of the podium finish by son
Brendon Rodney and his team in the men’s 4 x 100m says, “I stayed home and cheered him on through
relay. “You look at it and say: ‘Oh, my gosh.’ the TV” and kept in touch with texts and phone calls
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before and after each of his races.
“And, I’m so grateful that I was here to see this. I’m
very grateful to be alive.” Link to full story: click here.
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Recovering from surgery for a brain aneurysm, Nerissa Maxwell had to
cancel plans to go to Rio but says she’s “so grateful” to have survived to
see her son, Brendon Rodney, win a bronze medal in the 4 x 100 m relay
at the Summer Olympics. (Photo: Courtesy Nerissa Maxwell)
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