We will be reporting on lives saved around the world since our first documented life saved here in Singapore.
Shortly before 1 p.m., several travelers gathered at a Southwest Airlines gate waiting to board a plane to Nashville when one of the passengers, a man in his 50s, collapsed and appeared to suffer a seizure.
A flight attendant grabbed a defibrillator from the plane and handed it to Gamez who immediately began to operate the life-saving device.
Gamez, a 25-year Chicago police veteran who’s assigned to Midway, also began CPR along with a doctor who was at the gate. Gamez then used shock paddles to help revive him, just one week after the officer received the training on how to operate a defibrillator.
The man was taken to a local hospital where he was listed in stable condition and undergoing further treatment, police said.
