“I was dead for 90 minutes,” a 61-year-old man says of what he witnessed when medics attempted to save him.
"I was dead for 90 minutes," a 61-year-old man says of what he witnessed when medics attempted to save him.
A Man who had been dead for 90 minutes has described what he witnessed as doctors frantically tried to revive him.
While sleeping next to his wife Melinda, Alistair Blake, 61, suffered a sudden cardiac arrest in the early hours of January 2019.
Around three in the morning, she awoke to find her unresponsive husband "gurgling" in their beach house in Blairgowrie, Victoria.
While frantically awaiting the arrival of an ambulance, Melinda started performing CPR on her husband.
She acted immediately, using her knowledge from a recent first aid refresher course to try to revive Alistair for 20 minutes.
But by the time the ambulance arrived, the Australian was already dea...