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A CPR trainer suffered an actual heart attack while demonstrating the signs of a cardiac arrest in Canada.
Karl Arps and his students had the fright of their lives when the 72-year-old first aid instructor went right into a cardiac arrest during a training session.
Arps was showing his students spot the symptoms of 1 when he suffered a medical emergency in March.
He ended up being rushed to the hospital for an emergency triple bypass surgery following the incident.
Students said they first thought he was pretending before realising it was real.
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Arps was feeling dizzy within the moments before the attack, while hearing his students around him saying he didn’t look well.
Next time he got here around was behind an ambulance.
He told As It Happens: ‘From what I used to be told, they did every little thing like we told them to do in CPR class.
‘Thanks doesn’t seem enough. They saved my life, period.’
The scholars jumped into motion when Arp’s hands curled outward, his face contorted and he began to snore, Logan Lehrer, a firefighter learning first aid on the Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, said.
One other instructor tried to get up Arps before realising he wasn’t playing around.
He told CBC: ‘That’s immediately after we began responding to the situation.’
Lehrer alerted the emergency services, while five other students performed CPR and used a defibrillator on the 72-year-old.
Arps said after his bypass surgery that he’s lucky to be alive as many heart attack cases he has been involved with find yourself passing away even after successful CPR.
He CBC: ‘I’ve been in practice for 1 / 4 of a century, and I can count the variety of CPR saves that I’ve had on one hand.
‘[Sometimes] we get a pulse back within the ambulance or on scene, however the person finally ends up passing away two or three days later within the hospital.’
An ambulance chief, Nick Romenesko, said the scholars’ early recognition and the immediate actions ‘directly contributed to Mr Arp’s positive final result.’
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