Paramedic goaltender saves life in Newfoundland
With all the horrible, sad and morose news coming out of hockey today with the passing of Pat Quinn and Viktor Tikhonov, here's a story that may lift your spirits a little bit.
A goaltender named Patrick O'Brien helped save the life of a man in a crowd at a hockey game who had become unresponsive.
Since that statement hopefully got your attention, now to the details.
From The Gander Beacon:
"O’Brien — wearing his skates, hockey pants and one goal pad — raced from the Flyers’ dressing room and joined Gander mayor and retired paramedic Claude Elliott and Tom Whalen, a Flyers’ board member and also a former paramedic, who were assisting the stricken fan.
The man had no pulse and was not breathing.
'I just hopped in and started chest compressions,' said O’Brien, a 26-year-old Mount Pearl native who graduated from his paramedic program in June and started with Central Health in August.
O’Brien twice shocked the man with an automated external defibrillator before on-duty Gander paramedics arrived on the scene."
O'Brien plays for Gander West of the Central-West Senior Hockey League in Newfoundland.
According to the story, the man became responsive by the time an abulance arrived.
Thank you Patrick O'Brien, you are a real North American hero...
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