Scots mum performs CPR on man who collapsed on busy Edinburgh bus

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A Scots woman has been praised by emergency workers after she performed CPR on a man when he collapsed on a bus in East Lothian.

Melissa Cowie stepped in when the man became unresponsive while travelling on public transport through Musselburgh last Friday.

The 28-year-old gave CPR for 15 minutes until an ambulance arrived, which allowed emergency services to eventually get a heart rate and rush the man to hospital.Tragically he later died but mercy crews praised brave Melissa for stepping in.She learnt CPR and basic first aid when she trained as cabin crew with Ryanair but had never performed it on a person before.

Speaking to Edinburgh Live Melissa said: "We were downstairs, the bus had stopped outside Pinkie School when a woman came down and spoke to the driver. "We couldn't hear what she said but she seemed stressed the driver then asked everyone to get off the bus as someone had taken unwell."The driver looked frightened so I asked what was going on, he said 'the guy isn't answering me' and asked if I knew first aid."I said that I wasn't an expert but had been trained, so we went to the man who had collapsed."Straight away I started checking for a pulse."He felt completely cold so I told the driver he needed to call an ambulance then we would have to move him onto the floor."He was quite a big guy but once we got him on the floor I started CPR straight away."My auntie Marie Grant was with me so she kept checking for a pulse while I was doing compressions."Melissa continued to do CPR while her 66-year-old aunt checked the casualty's pulse and tried to comfort him.She added: "It was a good fifteen minutes or so until an ambulance arrived and there were only two of them."At this point I was panting and they asked how