An on-call paramedic having a heart attack in country Victoria used his own ambulance's heart monitor to diagnose himself before driving the ambulance to hospital.
David Watson told 3AW he felt the sudden onset of crushing chest pain and tingles down both arms while working on his own in the small western Victorian town of Casterton, so he hooked himself onto an electrocardiography (ECG) machine.
When he saw the reading, he headed over to the local hospital to be treated, before he was flown to Geelong after suffering the major heart attack on April 30.
- AAP
