Mirfield man who suffered cardiac arrest and spent month in coma stars on TV

Daniel Howe, 27, collapsed outside the East Riding Leisure Centre on August 2 last year and was helped by a group of passing tourists when they saw him having a seizure.

Mr Howe slipped into cardiac arrest and emergency services, who had arrived on scene, started CPR when the Yorkshire Air Ambulance were dispatched and Mr Howe was placed into an induced coma at the roadside and flown to Hull Royal Infirmary.

Tests at the hospital revealed Mr Howe 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 an ICD fitted.

He 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, 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, Mr Howe and his friends organised a fundraiser at their local angling club and raised over £1,200.

The episode, which aired at 10pm last night on Channel Really also features a milk man run over by his own milk truck in Keighley and a motorbike incident in Doncaster.

Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) serves 5million people across Yorkshire and carries out over 1,500 missions every year. The charity operates two, state-of-the-art Airbus H145 helicopters and needs to raise £12,000 every day to keep saving lives.

The charity operates two, state-of-the-art Airbus H145 helicopters and needs to raise £12,000 every day to keep saving lives.

Helicopter ER is made by York-based Air TV who have won five Royal Television Society awards for their work on the compelling series. You can catch up on any missed episodes for free on D Play: www.dplay.co.uk/show/helicopter-er