Nurses, Defibrillator Salesman Rescue Heart Attack Victim Wednesday, April 26, 2006 ST. PETERS, Mo. — A driver who suffered a heart attack and crashed into a guardrail was saved by a defibrillator salesman and two nurses who happened to be passing by. The salesman, Steve Earle, was transporting an automated external defibrillator, a device used to shock the heart into a normal rhythm. "When I saw what was happening, I jumped out and instinctively grabbed the AED, just in case," Earle told KSDK-TV of St. Louis. Two nurses who also stopped when they saw the wreck Friday evening began performing CPR on the driver, Carolyn Holt. The defibrillator restored her pulse, and Holt was recovering in a hospital this week. "Two RNs, a man that was able to get her out of the vehicle, the man with the AED — that just doesn't happen," said Mary Blome, one of the nurses.
Years ago when i was taking EMT courses they saide the auto Defibrillator would be every where like ATM's someday.
