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A male teacher at The Overlake School in Redmond, Washington, is alive thanks to the efforts of his co-workers. The 54-year old man went into cardiac arrest while teaching his usual 9:30am music class. Students cried out for help, and several teachers nearby responded, including the health […]

Turak Newman, a father of two, collapsed in his home about three weeks ago and went into cardiac arrest. His quick-thinking 10-year old daughter dialed 911 and called for help. Amazingly, the dispatcher was able to talk the young girl through CPR, and with the help of […]

Svetlana Rowland and Josh Patterson-Pope were going about their normal shift at the Old Mill restaurant when a customer began calling for 911. A man had collapsed and needed medical assistance. Rowland and her manager went into the waiting room to check out all of the commotion. […]

A woman who was 6-months pregnant gave birth to a baby girl 3 months early. Medical personnel were immediately called, and Larry Mueller, a volunteer firefighter with the Stewartville Fire Department performed life-saving CPR on the tiny infant. In all of his years at the department, he […]

Kevin Kuhn has been a veterinarian for 24 years and has performed CPR on perhaps hundreds of animals. He had never done it on a person before, that is until a car crashed in front of his clinic. A car had crashed into a mailbox, swerved through […]

Heather Roms had just left the dentist’s office when she received a notification on her phone. The notification was from he PulsePoint, an app that allows CPR-certified subscribers to receive alerts when someone nearby needs CPR, which allows them to respond and help. Roms is a nurse […]

Principal Rene Rovirosa was surveying his school’s wrestling practice when 15-year old student Devon Octave went into cardiac arrest. Having learned CPR a mere six days earlier, Rovirosa knew exactly what to do and began compressions on Octave until paramedics arrived. Octave was taken to the hospital […]

It was a normal day inside the Culinary Support Center at BYU when all of a sudden workers noticed one of their fellow employees, David Moody, lose consciousness and collapse. The group started CPR immediately, trying hard to get David to breathe on his own. EMTs arrived […]

City Councilwoman Jennifer Gates of Dallas, Texas, saved the life of an elderly man while dining at a restaurant last Monday. She was dining with her husband at a local restaurant when a waiter started asking restaurant patrons if anyone knew CPR; a man was choking near […]

It’s been forty years since Bob McKeeby learned CPR. He was a senior in high school and they were offering classes, so he took one. But he never expected to still remember how to perform the life-saving technique almost four decades later. The man he saved, who […]