{"id":330964,"date":"2026-05-07T23:50:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=330964"},"modified":"2026-05-07T23:50:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:20:47","slug":"cpr-instructor-has-real-life-heart-attack-while-pretending-to-have-one-news-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/cpr-instructor-has-real-life-heart-attack-while-pretending-to-have-one-news-world\/","title":{"rendered":"CPR instructor has real life heart attack while pretending to have one | News World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A CPR trainer suffered an actual heart attack while demonstrating the signs of a cardiac arrest in Canada. <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

Arps was showing his students spot the symptoms of 1 when he suffered a medical emergency in March. <\/p>\n

He ended up being rushed to the hospital for an emergency triple bypass surgery following the incident. <\/p>\n

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CPR trainer Karl Arps spoke at a special recognition held for the six students who saved his life with first aid when he suffered a heart attack (Picture: Spectrum News 1\/Rhonda Foxx)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Students said they first thought he was pretending before realising it was real. <\/p>\n

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Arps was feeling dizzy within the moments before the attack, while hearing his students around him saying he didn\u2019t look well. <\/p>\n

Next time he got here around was behind an ambulance. <\/p>\n

He told As It Happens: \u2018From what I used to be told, they did every little thing like we told them to do in CPR class.<\/p>\n

\u2018Thanks doesn’t seem enough. They saved my life, period.\u2019<\/p>\n

The scholars jumped into motion when Arp\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

One other instructor tried to get up Arps before realising he wasn\u2019t playing around. <\/p>\n

He told CBC<\/a>: \u2018That\u2019s immediately after we began responding to the situation.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Lehrer alerted the emergency services, while five other students performed CPR and used a defibrillator on the 72-year-old.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

He CBC: \u2018I\u2019ve been in practice for 1 \/ 4 of a century, and I can count the variety of CPR saves that I\u2019ve had on one hand. <\/p>\n

\u2018[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.\u2019<\/p>\n

An ambulance chief, Nick Romenesko, said the scholars\u2019 early recognition and the immediate actions \u2018directly contributed to Mr Arp\u2019s positive final result.\u2019 <\/p>\n

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