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Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center staff keep man alive after he goes into cardiac arrest in emergency room parking lot Date published: 6/30/2010
By DAN TELVOCK The quick actions of Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center's cardiac catheterization lab and nursing staff saved the life of a 62-year-old man whose heart stopped in the emergency room parking lot. Gil Wright went to run for a few miles Saturday before swimming at the community pool near his Massaponax-area home. Wright walked home when he started to feel chest pains. He told his wife, Randal Wright, that he didn't think it was a heart attack, and she gave him aspirin. When the pain persisted, he asked his wife to take him to the emergency room. At about 6:40 p.m. Saturday, Randal Wright got her husband to the HCA hospital, which opened this month. "If this had happened where he was swimming, there is no way he would have survived," said Dr. Harish Chandra, the cardiologist who was on call when Gil Wright got to the hospital. Brian Robertson, a 22-year-old emergency room technician, found Gil Wright unresponsive in the front passenger seat of the couple's SUV. Roberston called a Code Blue for the cardiac arrest patient and started CPR in the parking lot. "I did compressions for roughly a couple of minutes before everyone else got out there," he said. Gil Wright was then transported to the cardiac cath lab, where Chris Sullivan, Wendy Campbell, Rae Boardman, Ted Duford and Dr. Chandra were waiting. They were all on call. Chandra said Gil Wright was in full cardiac arrest, which means no blood was flowing to the man's brain. Chandra said a balloon was inserted into the man's blocked artery to allow blood to flow freely. Michelle Dunn, the nurse who manages the cardiac cath lab, said she is proud of her staff. "They work well together as a team, and the doctor responded really fast," she said. The national standard for getting a patient from the emergency room door to inserting a balloon into the blocked artery is 90 minutes. Dunn said her staff and the doctor finished in 77 minutes. Allison Bouchillon, the couple's daughter, said she is amazed that her father is still alive. She said her dad is in good shape, has competed in triathlons and loves wind surfing.
Whats up Peanut01? I think you forgot the difference between bias and unbiased in your comment. Here is a little education "unbiased - definition of unbiased by the Free Online Dictionary ...unbiased, unbiassed [ʌnˈbaɪəst]. adj. 1. having no bias or prejudice; fair or impartial. It was a great article by the way. Way to go HCA staff!!!
You go Brian! CPR in a parking lot as hot as it was Saturday...now that's a workout. You definitely deserve a pat on the back for that save.
for those of you who get consumed with your sports idols, movie stars, and other celebrities.....the real heros in this world are the people like the staff mentioned in this article. Lebron James doesn't save lives, Albert Haynesworth doesn't cure diseases, and Miley Cyrus doesn't check your vitals every 20 minutes.
The folks at HCA seemed to do a great job in this instance. But this article seems like an advertisement for HCA. News is supposed to be bias. Were any of the lives that were saved at MWH yesterday noteworthy?
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