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Bike | Pexels by Leandro Boogalu
Darryl Bagwell was out on a quick lunchtime ride on Dec. 29, 2015, when the cyclist suffered sudden cardiac arrest. His heart had stopped beating. Without CPR and an AED, he would die within minutes.
Then Northside Hospital Forsyth nurse Carrie Stone happened to drive by the scene of Darryl's collapse. In 2016, she spoke to the AJC:
“I was taking my dogs to the vet and saw that a cyclist was down on the road. People had stopped, but he was face down, and on second glance, he had not moved, and no one was doing anything for him. I parked in the median, stopped three lanes of traffic on Highway 20, and ran to see if I could help. The cyclist, who I now know well, was Darryl, an otherwise healthy 55-year-old man who was in cardiac arrest.”
With early CPR followed by early access to an AED, Carrie helped to save Darryl's life.
Original source can be found here.
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