Passing defibrillator salesman, RNs save heart attack victim in Missouri crash
“It looked like he was a goner,” said Santa Barbara City Councilman Brian Barnwell, who was among the 300 people attending the $250-a-plate event.Man Suffers Heart Attack In Room Full Of Cardiologists
Several doctors in attendance immediately began working on the man ane revived him by performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Paramedics then took him to a hospital where he recovered.
A driver who suffered a heart attack and crashed into a guardrail was saved by a defibrillator salesman and two nurses who happened to be passing by.(thanks, kevin!)
The salesman, Steve Earle, was transporting an automated external defibrillator, a device used to shock the heart into a normal rhythm.
“When I saw what was happening, I jumped out and instinctively grabbed the AED, just in case,” Earle told KSDK-TV of St. Louis.
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