The four intensive-care paramedics who rushed to the Fountain family's Nicholls home on November 4 to resuscitate the 41-year-old father of two after a full cardiac arrest returned to meet the man they saved.

''It's nice to come face to face with the people who helped us and thank them personally,'' Mr Fountain said. ''You know what they did for you. They kept my heart going, which was incredible.''

The simple things like his little girls waking him up for cuddles on Christmas morning, he said, would be even more special now knowing how close he came to losing it all.

''It's looking down at the kids and realising you might not have been around that make you thankful,'' he said.

When her husband complained of sore shoulders, Jo Fountain thought he must have torn a muscle. ''I said to him, you have been up at the golf course and swinging that new driver for the past four days, you have probably pulled a muscle,'' she said.

''I knew I couldn't physically get him into a car and whatever was going on was getting worse, so the only option was to call the ambulance. I thought, well at least if it's a false alarm they can come and check him out and then we will move on.''

ACT paramedic Mark Molloy said as soon as they were in the door his team saw the situation was critical. ''We determined he had no pulse and at that moment he had gone into cardiac arrest,'' Mr Molloy said. ''You are talking minutes or seconds really to turn things around.''

Mr Fountain fell unconscious, stopped breathing and his heart stopped beating. It took the first crew six minutes to revive him. When the other crew arrived he had a pulse.

Standing with her three year-old daughter Sybella as the paramedics worked to revive her husband, Ms Fountain said she knew that he might not come around.

ACT Ambulance Service chief officer David Foot said cases like these reminded us how crucial it was to act quickly. ''The clear message is, if you are worried, don't hesitate - ring emergency triple-0 without delay,'' he said.

Ms Fountain is thankful to have her husband home again and is looking forward some quiet time together as a family.

''If it wasn't for the most amazing job that the four ambulance officers did, Kurt would not be here with us and the girls are so happy Daddy is home,'' she said.