3/7/13 - A Washtenaw County man was revived over the weekend by a group effort of Hamburg Township residents, firefighters and police after suffering a heart attack. The incident began just before 5pm Saturday, when the victim collapsed from an apparent heart attack inside the Hamburg Township Kroger store. An off duty nurse, Karen Benefield, was shopping inside the store at the time and began performing CPR on the man. She was assisted by two off-duty township firefighters, Gerald Pickarz and Keith Leirstein, who were also shopping at the store. They were then joined by Hamburg Township Officer Megan Paul, who arrived on the scene within a minute and applied an automated external defibrillator, or AED, to the man. Police said Paul delivered a shock to the man, and he regained consciousness. AEDâs are carried in all township patrol vehicles. The man was then taken to the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor by Livingston County EMS. Saturdayâs incident was the second time in about a month that Officer Paul used an AED to save a patient. She was one of three officers who assisted a 33-year-old woman in February when the woman collapsed at her home from an apparent heart attack. (JK)
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