- By Philips
- September 06 2024
- 10 min read
Wednesday, October 4, 2016 started like any other day for Subramaniam Sundar. As this 61-year-old Indian-born husband and father of two drove from his home in San Jose, CA to his morning boot camp class, he thought of nothing more than getting in a little early-morning exercise before he started his work day as a chip designer at Toshiba.
At-a-glance:
- Subramaniam Sundar joined the other participants, warming up with push-ups and sit-ups.
- That’s the last thing Subramaniam remembered before blacking out.
- Shannon Opilla shouted for someone to call 911 and get an automated external defibrillator (AED).
- There was no pulse
- A shock was administered from the AED and as Michelle describes it, as soon as they did, Subramaniam “came back.”
Evergreen Valley High School, San Jose, California
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Footnotes
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- Ibrahim WH. Recent advances and controversies in adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Postgraduate Medical Journal. 2007;83(984),649–654. DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2007.057133.
- Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation. (n.d.) About SCA. Retrieved December 04, 2017, from www.sca-aware.org/about-sca.
- American Heart Association. (n.d.) Every Second Counts: Rural and Community Access to Emergency Devices. Retrieved January 24, 2018 from www.heart.org/idc/groups/heart-public/@wcm/@adv/documents/downloadable/ucm_301646.pdf.
- United States Department Of Labor. (n.d.). Retrieved December 04, 2017, from www.osha.gov/dts/tib/tib_data/tib20011217.html.
- Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association. Fact Sheet: Sudden Cardiac Arrest. Retrieved December 1, 2020, from viaheartproject.org/learn-sca/.
- Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation. (n.d.) Proper Placement of AEDs Key to Effective Use. Retrieved December 4, 2017, from www.sca-aware.org/sca-news/proper-placement-of-aeds-key-to-effective-use.
- American Heart Association in collaboration with International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation. Guidelines 2000 for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care: International Consensus on Science, Part 4: The Automated External Defibrillator. Circulation. 2000;102,S I 61:Figure 1.
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Results are specific to the institution where they were obtained and may not reflect the results achievable at other institutions. Results in other cases may vary.