Edmond Fire Dept. meets with three whose lives were saved using new CPR machine and the creator of device - KFOR Oklahoma City

EDMOND, Okla. (KFOR) – Cardiac apprehension is the starring origin of decease successful adults successful the United States. Thankfully, a lifesaving CPR instrumentality has saved 3 Edmond residents who went into cardiac arrest.

Officials accidental those patients were not breathing, had nary pulse, and were revived. 

The creator of the device, Dr. Keith Lurie met with the archetypal responders who saved the patients and the Edmond residents who are live and steadfast acknowledgment to them connected Wednesday afternoon.  

The device, EleGARD, is the newest portion of instrumentality the Edmond Fire Department is utilizing to summation the occurrence complaint of redeeming lives.

The three patients who person been saved by it told KFOR they’re feeling backmost to mean aft going into cardiac apprehension and being saved by EleGard.

“This exertion works successful each rhythms to amended humor travel to the bosom and the brain… We person a situation successful our state due to the fact that that is what happens truthful often with a brace of hands, but it doesn’t person to hap if you person the close instrumentality and the close morale and the close trained radical to amusement up astatine your door,” said Keith Lurie, M.D., laminitis and main aesculapian serviceman for Advanced CPR Solutions.  

The EleGARD System is a device that precisely and consistently positions the diligent for airway absorption by raising the patient’s caput and thorax during CPR. 

“In a precise controlled mode implicit astir 2 minutes in time, it dilatory raises the head… It is designed to get much oxygen into those encephalon cells. We don’t privation them to conscionable past a cardiac arrest. We privation them to past the cardiac apprehension wholly neurologically functional. So, they tin spell backmost to their aforesaid prime of beingness earlier that abrupt cardiac apprehension happened,” said Dr. Jeffrey Goodloe, main aesculapian officer, EMS Oklahoma City and Tulsa.  

Each diligent told KFOR they are grateful for the archetypal responders who utilized the instrumentality and saved their beingness the time they went into cardiac arrest.  

“I was successful ICU for astir 4 days, went location a mates of days later, I was backmost astatine enactment and felt nary deficits from the lawsuit whatsoever. And I truly recognition each that to the velocity of the occurrence section and the techniques they used,” said Stephen Dodley, who was saved from cardiac apprehension incident.  

One diligent was successful a coma for 9 days and told KFOR helium is feeling healthier than earlier the incident. 

“I consciousness that my bosom is healthier than it ever has been… Like they shocked maine 12 times… I shouldn’t beryllium here, but each of these things had to enactment up for maine to beryllium capable to past this,” said Richard Alsop, who was saved from cardiac apprehension incident. 

One aged begetter and grandpa is backmost connected his feet lone 2 weeks aft going into cardiac apprehension astatine his grandson’s shot game.  

“There were 4 oregon 5 radical doing CPR astatine the game. They went consecutive to enactment beating my heart. And the firefighters came out, the archetypal responders, and they had Dr. Lurie’s machine… Today’s the champion I person had successful 3 weeks. I was capable to locomotion without pain. I was capable to locomotion without getting tired,” said Ronald McDonald, who was saved from cardiac apprehension incident.

The Edmond Fire Department is 1 of the archetypal occurrence departments successful the state to utilize this device.

Developers expect the instrumentality to beryllium progressively adopted crossed the metropolitan Oklahoma City country and Tulsa country arsenic well.