A woman has been arrested at a Mangerton unit complex where a man was stabbed Tuesday afternoon.
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The 48-year-old man staggered from the three-storey Johanson Cres complex about 4.30pm, bleeding heavily and collapsing on the ground outside. Bystanders came to his aid and called triple-zero.
NSW Ambulance paramedics found him with two wounds to his tricep and - most seriously - underarm.
He was rushed to Wollongong Hospital with an intensive care paramedic working on him in transit.
NSW Ambulance duty operations manager Norm Rees said the man remained in a serious condition.
"He's lost a significant amount of blood. We expedited him to Wollongong Hospital, where he's still undergoing further investigation and treatment," Insp Rees said, about 6pm.
"[A wound] under the axilla [armpit] is potentially life-threatening because of all the major arteries and lungs."
Police spent about half an hour negotiating with a 27-year-old woman inside a third-floor unit before she was arrested.
The woman was spotted on the unit balcony, holding a knife, yelling and threatening to jump.
Police set up an exclusion zone and remain at the crime scene, as their investigation gets underway.