Doug Butler's heart stopped beating for 26 minutes when he had a heart attack while driving on a busy country highway. If it were not for his son Chais and bystanders, he wouldn't be here.
Chais Butler saved his dad Doug's life by performing CPR until help arrived.abc.net.au/news/calls-for-people-to-get-first-aid-and-cpr-qualification/102356308Doug Butler was driving at 110 kph on the Hume Highway at Wodonga, on the New South Wales-Victoria border, when he went into cardiac arrest.Only 10 per cent of people survive"I really don't remember anything," Mr Butler said.
"I thought I'd lost him. I just thought my dad's dead. That's all that was going through my head," Chais said. "They told us to go to the beat of the Bee Gees' Staying Alive, so I just remembered that and started doing it," Chais said. About 20,000 Australians have a cardiac arrest outside a hospital every year and research shows just one in 10 will survive.
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