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Dr. Craig Levine, an oral surgeon from Merrick, was at a bar mitzvah at the Seawane Country Club in Hewlett last Saturday when he saw his friend Lew Goldman, the host of the event, passed out on the dance floor.
With the help of an automated external defibrillator, Levine revived Goldman.
“I immediately knew that he was in cardiac arrest, and I yelled out for someone to get an AED,” said Levine, who has campaigned to make defibrillators more readily available. “I unfortunately have been through experiences like this.”
In 2005, Levine’s son Robbie, 9, died on a Little League ballfield in Merrick. A policeman responding to the scene brought an AED, but it was too late.
In Levine’s Bay Shore office in April 2007, he saw a patient waiting for a dental consultation collapse from a heart attack.
Levine brought out an AED and saved her life.
“All these things that happen make me think of my son,” Levine said. “I couldn’t save my son, but I saved the lives of two people and spared their families.”
Goldman collapsed during his twin sons’ bar mitzvah.
“I don’t know what to make of it, why this keeps happening,” Levine said Friday, shaking his head ruefully.
“The real story is the AED saved my life,” Goldman said Friday from his Merrick home, where he was recovering. “Craig Levine is a hero.”
“The fact that Craig was there and they had an AED at the Seawane Country Club, and that it happened that night, I’m one lucky man,” Goldman said.
A veteran male employee in his 40s began suffering from cardiac problems late Tuesday afternoon while working in the basement of the municipal office on Perry Street.
Observing their colleague in distress, a trio of employees jumped into action and administered CPR and used a nearby defibrillator.
Emergency crews also quickly arrived at the municipal office to assist.
As of Wednesday morning, the man remained in hospital.
Stacey Beltran was at the home of Doug and Joanne Briggs for their traditional family Christmas Eve gathering of hors d’oeuvres and a bingo game.
Stacey Beltran the Saviour & Doug Briggs
As Beltran recalls, her Uncle Doug had just asked who had made the meatballs when he crashed to the floor.
Beltran’s sister dialed 911 but asked Beltran to talk to the dispatcher.
Beltran said she followed the directions of the dispatcher and remembered what she learned at the Dec. 18 CPR training that took place at Hamilton Elementary School, where she is a kindergarten teacher.
The class was led by Sandy Wargo of the Novato Fire District.
She provided CPR for about 5 minutes until paramedics arrived to take Briggs to Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Terra Linda.
Briggs said he was told he received three electric jolts from the paramedics’ defibrillator and three more in the ambulance.
He underwent surgery to install a pacemaker/defibrillator and is recovering well, he said.
“I’m so proud of her,” he said.
Wargo has heard the 911 recording and “she comes right out and says she took CPR from Sandy Wargo,” Wargo said with a laugh. “You could hear her in the background counting out loud as she’s doing the compressions.
“So this one really touches home with me. When you teach so many people CPR, you never know if they’re going to step up to the plate in an emergency and use those skills.”
Michael Crane, 26, was at Novato High School gym in November and getting ready to play a playoff adult league basketball game.
Michael Crane the Saviour
Forrest Manning’s team had just lost and he had just sat down in a chair.
About 20 seconds into Crane’s game, Manning fell out of the chair and his teammates called out for help.
Crane is a graduate student at Arizona State University and is finishing his thesis for a degree in fire department administration.
He finished an 18-month internship with the Napa Fire Department in early 2008 and is trained as an emergency medical technician.
Crane gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and chest compressions until Novato paramedics arrived.
Manning received shocks from a defibrillator and was taken to a hospital.
He is recovering from having two stents installed in previously blocked arteries.
With some help, Manning tracked down Crane, who recently moved to San Francisco, to thank him. “It’s strange because how can you really thank somebody completely who saved your life?” Manning said. “I’m sure he knows how much it meant.”
Crane said he got goosebumps when Manning called. “I was taken aback by it all,” he said. “I think everybody who was there that night has seen the impact of knowing CPR. Hopefully people will take the steps to learn it so they have the ability to save a life.”
Bentonville junior baseball player, Wes Busby, 17, collapsed as the Tigers ran during a warmup for practice at Tiger Athletic Complex.
A teammate standing near Busby found a faint and erratic heartbeat.
Assistant baseball coach Curt Yarrington and athletic trainer Laura Wilson started CPR while baseball coach Todd Abbott called 911.
Emergency medical technicians arrived within five minutes and used a defibrillator to stabilize Busby’s heartbeat.
“I don’t think (the response) could have been any better,” Abbott said. “I think everybody kept a level head and did what they had to do and worked together. It is such a blessing that it happened that way.”
Busby was taken to Northwest Medical Center where he was kept stable and eventually taken to ACH by ambulance later that night.
After running several tests, doctors at ACH believe Wes Busby has Long QT Syndrome, a heart condition associated with ventricular arrhythmias.
He had surgery last week to place an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, which will help the heart return to normal function if another arrhythmia should occur.
“A lot of things had to happen just right,” Murray Busby said. “If it would have been a situation where nobody knew what was going on, nobody knew what was happening and just stood there, he wouldn’t be with us today. I’m not going to try to sugarcoat it or anything, because there were a lot of good people there that took care of him until the EMTs got there and took over.”
Malinowski and friend Kayla Stonehouse had come back from a water break during a kick boxing class about 9:20 p.m. Wednesday at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s Recreational Eagle Center to find abdominal exercises already had begun on the mat.
“Good thing we came back late,” Malinowski whispered jokingly to Stonehouse.
When the next exercise began, everyone flipped on their backs - except Malinowski.
Stonehouse again thought she was joking.
Then she noticed Malinowski’s face, eyes rolled back. She began to wheeze and gasp.
Stonehouse jumped up, yelling for help.
Sophomore Christiane Berdan was certified in CPR from her lifeguard days and as a UW-L athletic training student. She thought at first Malinowski had fainted but when she got closer realized it was much worse. The 20-year-old had no pulse and wasn’t breathing.
“You kick into autopilot and do what needs to be done at the moment and don’t think about it,” said Berdan.
Berdan started chest compressions, and Stonehouse began breathing for her friend.
Andrea Harrill, UW-L student and building manager at the center, was sitting at the back counter when a frantic person came from the fitness room. Harrill directed students and fellow staff to grab an on-site defibrillator and call 911.
Harrill administered shocks to Malinowski with the defibrillator until the La Crosse Fire Department and Tri-State Ambulance arrived.
Firefighter EMTs got Malinowski breathing on her own again, her father Mark Malinowski said.
His daughter is recovering at Franciscan Skemp Medical Center. Walking outside the hospital room, Mark Malinowski’s eyes teared up when he spoke of the many people who came through for his family and daughter - from UW-L staff to firefighters, first responders and hospital workers.
But she wouldn’t be alive had the students not known what to do, he said.
“They reacted. They weren’t afraid to do something,” he said. “These people are heroes in my book.”
Faith Sendelweck would just like to get back to a normal routine.
She goes back to Jasper Middle School on Monday; however, this once high-energy soccer player is forced to take it a little easier from now on.
Sendelweck says she does not remember much of what happened one Sunday earlier this month.
“All I remember is diving for a ball and throwing it back,” Sendelweck said. “That’s pretty much it.”
She was playing soccer in the gym of Jasper High School.
Sendelweck’s dad was with her and he remembers seeing her collapse into a curtain hanging from the gym ceiling.
Dr. Dean Beckman just happened to be playing basketball with his son there, too, and immediately ran to help.
“(She was) becoming a little bit lethargic, sat down, became unconscious and then lost her pulse,” Dr. Beckman said. “We started CPR.”
Turns out, Sendelweck had a congenital heart condition that no one knew about.
“The rhythm is messed up,” Sendelweck said. “You have a short bump and then a big bump and then another short bump. My short bump drags on too long before my next heart beat and messes it up.”
Sendelweck might not be here had it not been for a defibrillator in the gym.
“You could tell she was starting to respond because her color came back, her lips turned pink and she was moaning,” Dr. Beckman said.
Sendelweck now has her own defibrillator, an IED, implanted in her chest.
Sendelweck is going to be a spokesperson for pediatric IED’s at Kosair’s Children’s Hospital.
In August of last year, Durham police officer Gerry Elliott was directing game traffic in front of the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
“I remember taking a step to walk out of the intersection and everything went white,” Elliott said.
He fell and a fellow officer caught him.
“He told me he rolled me over and when he rolled me over, my complexion was kind of grayish blue and my lips were dark blue,” Elliott recalled.
Elliott’s heart stopped beating.
An EMT grabbed an automatic external defibrillator (AED) from the park’s office, and shocked his heart back to life.
A quick response and the AED saved Elliott’s life.
“We call them idiot proof, I mean, they basically show you where to put the pads, you hit a button and step back and it tells you what to do next,” Elliott said.
“I used to believe in luck, but now I just believe that I’m really blessed. I really do,” he said.
McKee, 52, was at the airport Dec. 12 to meet his sister, who was flying in from Rochester, N.Y., for a holiday visit. McKee, who lives in Fredericksburg, is a sculptor and conservator of fine art and historic monuments, such as those along Monument Avenue.
He’d gone up the escalator into the atrium, near the security checkpoint for Concourse B, when he noticed the lights for Hudson News, a shop selling newspapers and magazines, snacks, and souvenirs.
“The lights went from white to red to black,” recalled McKee, who had no chest pains to foreshadow the heart attack he was having. “My last thought was, ‘I can’t handle this.’ I knew I was dropping.”
Business was slow at Hudson News, where Cagwin was working, and she had just mentioned to someone how boring Saturdays can be when she looked up from the sales counter to see McKee collapse.
She instinctively raced to McKee, maybe 20 yards away, and checked for breathing and a pulse. She found neither. He was, as Sheets would say later, “gone,” and the race was on not only to save him but to revive him before he suffered irreversible brain damage.
Cagwin opened the glass door to a defibrillator on the wall just above where McKee fell.
She had no training in using a defibrillator and knew cardiopulmonary resuscitation only from what she learned in high school gym class, but, she said, “I just knew I had to do something.”
She was joined by a woman on her way to catch a flight who said she worked in sports medicine, and the two of them followed the instructions on the defibrillator to apply the first shocks to McKee’s heart.
Another man stopped and began doing chest compressions. Several other passers-by stopped and helped.
Within a couple of minutes, several of the airport’s rescue workers — who happened to be downstairs and not in the firehouse a half-mile away because they were returning chairs and tables they had borrowed for a Christmas party — arrived and took over.
They shocked McKee’s heart three more times, continued to do vigorous chest compressions — McKee still has the sore ribs to prove it — and his pulse returned.
McKee, of course, remembers none of it. After blacking out, his next memory is of a shining white light, although it’s not what you might think. It was the dome light in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. He was going to be OK.
Cagwin has been drifting from job to job since high school, looking for a purposeful career to do for the rest of her life. What she did for McKee that day gave her a glimpse of her future. She is looking to enter nursing school.
“I never thought I’d be able to react that way in a situation like that, but now I know I can do it,” she told McKee. “Thank you for giving my life direction.”
McKee has wondered why things seemed to fall in place for him, but he brushes aside any suggestion that it has anything to do with him.
“I don’t feel like there’s anything special about my case,” he said, “aside from the special people around me when I dropped.”
