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- Basketball player Rory Pittman is now a volunteer for St Johns Ambulance after suffering a sudden cardiac arrest at 16.
- But thanks to quick-thinking bystanders and the Automated External Defibrillator (AED) located at the Queanbeyan basketball courts, his life was saved.
- "I had never thought about heart health before, I didn't have to", he says.
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Basketball player Rory Pittman is now a volunteer for St Johns Ambulance after suffering a sudden cardiac arrest at 16. (ABC News: Georgia Roberts)
Link copied Share Share article Last year, Rory Pittman was spending his night like any other 16-year-old, playing sports with friends, when the unthinkable happened.
But thanks to quick-thinking bystanders and the Automated External Defibrillator (AED) located at the Queanbeyan basketball courts, his life was saved.
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