The dramatic moment when a young woman suffered a heart attack in the gym

Emily Counter, a 21-year-old Australian, was in a Queensland gym after a workout. But when he had to switch to the rowing machine, he suddenly disappeared and fell to the ground: I had a heart attack. Thanks to the quick reaction of her relatives, she was saved and discovered that she was suffering from a rare conbad defect.

The incident occurred in October of last year, but it was only in the last hours that the video of the event became viral. The pictures show how the woman collapsed on the floor in seconds.

People who were in the gym came to help him automatically and gave them first aid until the owner of the place decided to use the defibrillator to realize the seriousness of the image. "It was pretty scary because Emily is young and healthy," he told the local press.

Once she pressed the machine button, Emily jumped up, not remembering anything that had happened. When she was transferred to the hospital, she was hospitalized three days in a coma and had to have an open heart surgery.

Youth He was diagnosed with Bland-White-Garland syndrome, a rare conbad anomaly characterized by an abnormal origin of one of the coronary arteries. It affects a newborn baby out of 300,000.

Without surgery, most children who die will die. But in the case of Emily, she lived until the age of 21 without knowing her condition. "Well before that happens, my heart ached and I had trouble breathing when I was running. But I thought it was because I was not fit, "he said.

Already healed, the young woman now he feels that he has "a new heart" and the doctors have already given him permission to resume their sports activities.