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doesn’t have a pulse or is unconscious. But this
guy is sitting there, talking to us! He didn’t know it
until we told him, but he was having what we call
a cardiac event. It’s when your heart beats so fast
that it doesn’t have time to fill with blood again
[after each beat].”
If Davis and Armentrout did not act imme-
diately, the man could have a fatal heart attack at
any minute.
Calling on his years of training, but adding a
little creativity, Davis came up with a solution. In
the next few minutes, his decisions and his ac-
tions would see that the man lived . . . or died.
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