SALT LAKE CITY — A man who went into cardiac arrest earlier this month at Salt lake City Airport had a team of emergency medical professionals spring into action to save his life, though all were strangers to each other.
She immediately began emergency procedures to clear his airway and start his heart, and was soon joined by Dr. Collin Swenson, a specialist in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Emory University, who used a defibrillation mask and chest compressions to keep his heart beating before paramedics arrived.
They gave Wall several shocks to keep his heart going, and said they lost his pulse several times so kept working on him for several minutes. "I remember people kept saying, do we have Epinephrine, do we have these medicines that we would normally keep and that we have in a hospital."