I watched myself flatline during labour after two cardiac arrests - and now have crippling PTSD Keeley Wilson, 36, from Rochdale, suffers from PTSD after two cardiac arrests Read More: Mother died in childbirth after a fatal 'catastrophic collapse' By Ellen Coughlan For Mailonline Published: 16:30, 4 June 2024 | Updated: 17:28, 4 June 2024 e-mail 5 View comments A mother has revealed how she's been left with PTSD after she had two cardiac arrests and had to be given CPR to restart her heart while she was giving birth. Keeley Wilson, 36, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, says she remembers the ECG monitor flatlining and hearing the long beep while the surgeon was cutting into her to perform an emergency C-section. She says her next memory was seeing the face of the anaesthetist who was performing chest compressions - before her heart stopped again.
She came round a second time to hear newborn Sophia crying - but had suffered broken ribs during the attempt to restart her heart. Despite tests, doctors were never able to say exactly why she had two cardiac arrests but the ordeal left her with PTSD, anxiety, flashbacks and nightmares. Keeley Wilson, 36, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, suffers from PTSD after she had two cardiac arrests and had to be given CPR to restart her heart while she was giving birth Keeley, who works as a travel consultant and owns a business decorating Christmas trees, said: 'I think it's fair to say I actually died twice.
'My last memory was feeling s.
