Air ambulance team saved Daniel’s life – now his story is to appear on TV
HELICOPTER ER WILL FEATURE MIRFIELD MAN, WHO SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK ON A DAY OUT
A 27-YEAR-OLD man who suffered a cardiac arrest on a day out to Bridlington last summer is set to appear on Helicopter ER next week.
Daniel Howe, from Mirfield, collapsed outside the East Riding Leisure Centre on August 2 and was helped by a group of passing tourists when they saw him having a seizure.
Moments later, Daniel slipped into cardiac arrest and emergency services, who had arrived on scene, started CPR.
The Yorkshire Air Ambulance was dispatched and Daniel was placed into an induced coma at the roadside and flown to Hull Royal Infirmary.
Tests at the hospital revealed that Daniel had a faulty heart value and he spent more than a month in a coma.
He was then transferred to Leeds General Infirmary, where he began his rehabilitation and underwent two procedures, one to repair his aortic value and another to have a device called an ICD fitted which helps regulate abnormal heart rhythms.
Daniel has been left with crippling anxiety and short-term memory loss following his cardiac arrest and Covid-19 has delayed some of his treatment.
However, he has been using lockdown as an opportunity to work on his fitness and has lost one and a half stone in weight, which the doctor had advised so that he can have further surgery on his heart.
To give back to the charity that saved his life, prior to the lockdown, Daniel and his friends organised a fundraiser at their local angling club and raised over £1,200 for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance.
The Helicopter ER episode airs at 10pm on Channel Really on Monday August 24.
Helicopter ER is made by Yorkbased
Air TV who have won five Royal Television Society awards for their work on the compelling series.
Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) serves five million people across Yorkshire and carries out over 1,500 missions every year.
The charity operates two, state-ofthe-art Airbus H145 helicopters and needs to raise £12,000 every day to keep saving lives.