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Off-duty NY EMT saves police officer
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ELMHURST, N.Y. — At around 10:30 p.m. on Dec. 18, Elmhurst Hospital Police Officer Nicholas Esposito was buying coffee from the Zion Grocery and Deli on 41st Avenue. Moments later, he collapsed, face down on the sidewalk.

Lucky for him, his guardian angel was buying pizza down the street.

Off-duty EMT Jack Lin from Station 49 performed CPR on Officer Esposito moments after the man collapsed and went into cardiac arrest, saving his life.
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Good thing he wasn't a dispatcher.

Come on....somebody had to say it! :P:P
 
nicolel3440 said:
The man, who was covered in the coffee he just purchased, had shallow breathing and no pulse, so EMT Lin began chest compressions.
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please correct me if i'm wrong, but i thought that it was possible to be apneic, but have a pulse, but not to be without a pulse and still breathing.

Also, he actually might have been a dispatcher. He must have been leaving to go back on duty and off his break when he was flagged down
 
To be pulseless and stil agonal

It is indeed possible to be pulseless, even vfib, and still have spontaneous breaths, I have witnessed it on multiple times, and its is usually seen whne they are a witness arrest. People can even have seizure like activity, and be in vfib.
You are an EMT right?
 
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