<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A mother-of-two was left technically dead after suffering a cardiac arrest on a footpath in Melbourne, but was brought back to life by the tremendous efforts of bystanders.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>About six months ago, 46-year-old Kellie Delaney collapsed in a gutter at Footscray.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The childcare student had suffered a cardiac arrest while packing up from an outdoor placement.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/missing-hiker-hadi-nazari-found-alive-kosciuszko-national-park/7a36a170-4303-44ce-895e-6452c5d40797" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>'Happiest day of our lives': Missing hiker found after 13 days</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"She had no pulse so she was dead," paramedic Mark Lunn said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Her educator, Justen, immediately started CPR.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"She looked pretty bad, had a gigantic swollen forehead, lots of blood coming from her nose," he said.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/melbourne-bystanders-brought-mother-back-to-life/461feb72-e675-4e27-86c6-8bde31e06734" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A bystander who witnessed the incident raced into a nearby cafe for a defibrillator.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The owner, Stacey Earsman, didn't have one but her two decades of experience as a flight attendant meant she was experienced in first aid.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She dropped the bagels and rushed to Delaney, where she took over CPR. She kept going even after the paramedics arrived.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The oxygen that's left in her body while she's not breathing keeps her brain alive, keeps her heart muscle alive," Lunn said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/gold-coast-tallebudgera-shooting/94d84fd1-9dfc-4144-afb1-9b3acfa7bdee" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Woman fighting for life after shooting on the Gold Coast</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Paramedics said the first aid efforts had brought Delaney back. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Delaney spent five days in a coma and two weeks in hospital but has since made an almost full recovery.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I can't even put it into words," she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Each day, 21 Victorians suffer a cardiac arrest and only one in 10 survive.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>For every minute that help is delayed, the chance of survival decreases by 10 per cent.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I keep telling everyone you need to learn CPR, family members have bought defibrillators and things like that as well," Delaney said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Any basic first aid for anyone is just the most crucial and most helpful thing somebody could have," Earsman said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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