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Many of us here are no longer spring chickens… When you’re half a century old, choose your tennis kakis well… https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/ae-doctor-who-suffered-cardiac-arrest-playing-tennis-was-saved-by-colleagues-on-the-court?fbclid=IwY2xjawF3FY1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHaaT8B7TaH4OCJ1INujpBDM6G2wxKXGKBKGEKMiP_TFhT8RU64V4LYrDrQ_aem_gmm3BsAVI2OCLt1EIGr-UQ “ OCT 12, 2024, 03:29 PM SINGAPORE – An accident and emergency (A&E) doctor who saves lives at work found himself in need of saving when he collapsed from cardiac arrest during a tennis game. Fortunately, Dr Christopher Wong, 56, a senior consultant at Woodlands Health, was playing with three A&E physician colleagues who dropped their rackets to save him. They were Dr Sohil Pothiawala, 47, and Adjunct Associate Professor Amila Punyadasa, 52, both senior consultants at Woodlands Health, and Adjunct Associate Professor Kenneth Heng, 54, a senior consultant at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH).” learn CPR and the AED get your condo or apartment to install one and learn how to use it CPR https://www.redcross.org/take-a-class/cpr/performing-cpr/cpr-steps and no, you don’t need mouth to mouth even compressions are often good enough