{"id":16756,"date":"2019-04-12T12:24:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T17:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=16756"},"modified":"2019-04-12T12:24:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T17:24:06","slug":"georgia-first-responders-save-29-year-old-cardiac-arrest-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=16756","title":{"rendered":"Georgia first responders save 29-year old cardiac arrest victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/facebook-instant\/paulding-county-first-responders-save-29-year-old-cardiac-arrest-victim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox 10<\/a>) \u2013\u00a0Daniel Sherrod, a 29-year-old beer distributor, had collapsed at his Paulding County home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s humbling, I guess, would be the right word,\u201d Sherrod says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"photoCarousel-400264687\">\n<aside class=\"mod-inline photo-gallery-thumb full\">He recalls nothing about that night or the week that followed.\n<p>\u201cI remember asking my mom what happened,\u201d Sherrod says. \u201cShe told me basically I went into cardiac arrest and died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That night, Sherrod and his fianc\u00e9e Gabrielle Hall had been getting ready for bed.<\/p>\n<p>Hall was getting out of the shower when she noticed something was off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDaniel was lying on the bed playing with his phone,\u201d Hall says. \u201cAnd, before I knew it, his phone was lying on the floor, and I could just tell something wasn\u2019t right. So, I screamed for my mom, who came running up the stairs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hall\u2019s mother dialed 9-1-1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems like an eternity,\u201d she says, remembering the next eight minutes.\u00a0 \u201cTime stops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hall, whose sister is an ICU nurse, had no training in CPR.<\/p>\n<p>Now, her fianc\u00e9\u2019s life was on the line, and it was up to her to save him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m no medical person,\u201d she says.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t do good with the medical stuff. So, it was really fight or flight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A couple of miles away, Metro Atlanta Ambulance Service paramedic Bill Walthour, a 30-year EMS veteran, and Advanced Emergency Medical Technician Kasey Rollins, who was relatively new to the job, heard the dispatch alert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got the call as a 29-year old, down and unconscious,\u201d Walthour remembers.<\/p>\n<p>He and Rollins would later be awarded the Northwest Georgia Region 1 \u201cTommy Gayler Medical Call of the Year,\u201d for what happened next.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t done many bad calls, or tough calls, like that before,\u201d Rollins says.\u00a0 \u201cSo, that was my first cardiac arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sherrod had collapsed on the bed.<\/p>\n<p>But because he\u2019s 6\u20195\u2033 and about 250 pounds, Hall was unable to move him to the floor.<\/p>\n<p>So, the 911 operator began talking her through how to perform CPR.<\/p>\n<p>On the recording of that call, she helps Hall pace herself while she performs chest compressions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeep doing that, Gabrielle,\u201d the operator says.\u00a0 \u201cGood job, keep going, keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Matt Clotfelter and his crew from Paulding County Fire Department Station 3 arrived on the scene first, about 8 minutes after the call came into dispatch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got him on the floor, and started doing compressions on him,\u201d Clotfelter says.<\/p>\n<p>Another firefighter grabbed an AED off their truck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe AED goes on him and says \u2018shock advised,'\u201d Clotfelter remembers.\u00a0 \u201cSo we shocked him. Continued doing CPR.\u00a0 Kept doing CPR.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is when Rollins and Walthour pulled up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was kind of like an out-of-body experience,\u201d Rollins says. \u201cI didn\u2019t know how to react to it. I\u2019ve never seen a call like that that, let alone a call on someone my age.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guided by the AED, firefighters deliver a shock to Sherrod\u2019s heart, then paused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey shocked again and looked up at me and Bill and said, \u2018We\u2019ve got pulses,\u2019 Rollins remembers.\u00a0 \u201cSo, I looked at Bill and I was like, \u2018All right.\u00a0 Let\u2019s start moving!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After working together to get Sherrod down the stairs, Walthour and two firefighters worked to stabilize him in the back of the ambulance, while Rollins drove, with lights and siren blaring, to Paulding County Hospital.\\<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/facebook-instant\/paulding-county-first-responders-save-29-year-old-cardiac-arrest-victim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Fox 10) \u2013\u00a0Daniel Sherrod, a 29-year-old beer distributor, had collapsed at his Paulding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16758,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16756\/revisions\/16758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}