5/8/13 - When a stranger began going into cardiac arrest last month, a Brighton High School senior took action to help keep him alive until medical professionals could arrive. Senior Olivia Keller says she was shopping at a grocery store in Ann Arbor when she heard a thud in the next aisle. When she went to investigate she found a man on the floor, and she determined from his snorting respiration that he was going into cardiac arrest. Keller is a student of Howell High Schoolâs emergency medical technician class, and using skills she learned in school she was able to administer CPR to help keep the man alive. Eventually a doctor arrived at the scene with a defibrillator, which was able to restore the manâs pulse. Keller says she became interested in the class after taking a health occupations course last year, and says she is excited to become a member of the medical community. (TD)
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