His snoring was actually a cardiac arrest

Nurse saves man at airport: his snoring was actually cardiac arrest

Claire, an American nurse, immediately recognized the signs of cardiac arrest and sprang into action.

International.- An American nurse who was at an airport saved the life of a man who appeared to be sleepingafter noticing that he was actually suffering a heart attack.

Claire Cerbie was waiting to board a flight at Charlotte Douglas International Airport (North Carolina), in the early hours of June 7. In the same room was Ken Jeffries, who was apparently resting peacefully in a chair, also waiting for the flight to Knoxville, Tennessee.

“Just the way you snored and breathed It sounded like you were having a heart attack “based on what I’d seen before,” Cerbie told Jeffries, who met again this week on a joint video call with local channel WBTV.

The registered nurse, who I used to work at a cardiovascular institute Atrium Health Hospital in Charlotte, understood that the noises the man was making indicated that an emergency could break out at any moment.I didn’t know if I was having some kind of seizure or hypoglycemia, but when I approached him, he was unconscious. He was making a noise similar to snoring and I looked for his pulse, but he didn’t have one.“, he said in a previous interview.

Claire immediately recognized the signs of cardiac arrest and sprang into action. He proceeded to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). He called for help from others, they got an automatic external defibrillator and They managed to get Ken’s pulse back.

“He was breathing on his own and we stayed by his side until the paramedics arrived,” Claire said, detailing that her efforts and those of her makeshift group of assistants lasted about 10 minutes. Jeffries was taken to a hospital, where he was treated. A catheterization was performed and a tubular support or ‘stent’ was placed to address the blockage in one of the arteries supplying blood to the heart, which caused the cardiac arrest.

“Ken was dead and Claire brought him back”

Cardiologist William Downey, who performed the procedure, He claimed that Ken would have died if Cerbie and the others had not intervened to help him.“Unfortunately, less than 10% of those who suffer cardiac arrest outside the hospital survive. However, immediate CPR can double or even triple a cardiac arrest victim’s chances of survival,” he said.

“Most people who have this happen to them die. This is a sudden death. Ken was dead and Claire brought him back. “Claire’s CPR kept him alive,” the doctor told Inside Edition.

Jeffries, who had not noticed any signs or symptoms associated with heart attacks before the incident, said that He continues to recover and is very grateful and “indebted” to Cerbie and the others who saved her life. She says it was a “miracle” everything that happened. The nurse was happy to be able to help and, even more so, for the fortunate outcome. “It reminds me of why I became a nurse: to make a real difference. To save lives,” she said.