Retired paramedic on family day out at Legoland heard 'shouts for help' before ... trends now
A retired paramedic told today how he helped saved a baby boy who had 'died for 15-minutes' after suffering a cardiac arrest at Legoland Windsor.
Matthew Burns, 60, was at the attraction with his family stood at the coastguard HQ when a woman ran over screaming 'help, my baby's in trouble'.
Mr Burns over to find the baby 'blue in the face and floppy' – and helped another off-duty medic desperately try to revive the little boy.
They gave him CPR for 20 minutes until he started breathing again before paramedics rushed him to hospital for emergency treatment.
Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, Mr Burns, a father-of-three from Eastbourne, Sussex, said: 'When I got to the baby boy, he was clinically dead. His was blue and floppy and he wasn't breathing. We couldn't feel a pulse.
Matthew Burns, 60, was at the attraction with his family stood at the coastguard HQ when a woman ran over screaming 'help, my baby's in trouble' (file photo)
'We tried and tried and managed to get him breathing again.
'Myself and the other paramedic were literally three seconds away from the child. It is a miracle that two medics were nearby at Legoland when this happened.
Mr Burns, who spent 40 years working for the ambulance service, was at the attraction with his daughter and her family when it happened.
He said the boy had been in a baby carrier strapped to his mother when he raced to his aid.
'I'd been alerted by my son's girlfriend who shouted over for help,' he said
'The other medic had got the boy out of the pouch and had laid him down on top of a bin.
'It sounds bizarre but we needed a nice flat surface. I said to him 'I'm a paramedic' and he replied, 'so am I'.
Mr Burns over to find the baby 'blue in the face and floppy' – and helped another off-duty medic desperately try to revive the little boy
He did the chest compressions while I looked after the baby's airways. Due to the fact that we were dealing with such a young baby I had to do mouth-to-nose initially.
'We carried on working on the boy until first aiders from Legoland arrived with the oxygen and a bag of masks and stuff we needed.
'Just before the ambulances and police turned up, we got a pulse from the boy and he started to make some slight respiratory effort.
'When we first got to him, I held up his little arm but it flopped down flat but when we later checked for a pulse his arm stayed up so at least we were getting some tone.
'The ambulance took him on blue lights to John Radcliffe Hospital up in Oxford. There were about six policemen that turned up and cordoned off the area and took statements.
'My focus had been on the baby. The mother was being looked after by other visitors while this was going on. She was
