Having advanced resuscitation facilities at end of marathons does not guarantee survival

EDITOR—I feel great sympathy for the parents of Anna Loyley, who died suddenly after finishing the Bath marathon.1 The details are unclear, but it seems to be accepted that her sudden cardiac death might have been avoided through appropriate use of the (available) automatic external defibrillator Nevertheless, the scapegoating of the doctors (and presumably the St John Ambulance workers) involved in the case is …