A registered nurse saved a man’s life after noticing he was displaying symptoms of a heart attack at an airport in North Carolina. On June 7, Claire Cerbie was waiting for her flight to Knoxville, Tennessee when she noticed fellow passenger Ken Jeffries seemingly struggling to breathe at the gate. “Just the way that you were snoring and breathing sounded like you were having a heart attack based on what I've seen before,” Cerbie told Jeffries on a Zoom call reunion organised by WBTV.
Millions risking health by taking common pill every day Biden in 'denial' about health decline but is 'sharp' on fight against Trump Jeffries, 57, was reportedly showing signs of laboured breathing, which more than half of patients going into cardiac arrest experience, according to the University of Arizona's Sarver Heart Center. Other symptoms may include gasping and snoring. “Bystanders often misinterpret gasping and other unusual vocal sounds as breathing and do not call 9-1-1 or begin lifesaving chest compressions quickly enough,” the center explained.
Cerbie quickly started performing chest compressions and asked fellow passengers to help, as one rushed to find a defibrillator. She said: “We put the pads on him. It indicated a shockable rhythm, and it shocked him in between while we were doing compressions.
” Cerbie and the other people helping her performed CPR for ten minutes before Jeffries finally regained a pulse. “He had his own rhythm. He was breathing on his own and we.
