Emergency workers revive man with no pulse
Police and volunteer ambulance personnel resuscitated a Sag Harbor man who had a heart attack, Southampton Town police said.
In a news release, police said they responded to an emergency call for help from the Mount Misery neighborhood at about 1:41 a.m.
After arriving, police and Sag Harbor Volunteer Ambulance emergency medical technicians found a person giving cardiopulmonary resuscitation to a family member, 67.
The news release said the man was in cardiac arrest, not breathing and without a pulse. Officers took over CPR and a defibrillator was used, delivering three "shocks" to the man, police said.
Police said by the time the man was taken by ambulance to Southampton Hospital, his pulse had returned and he was "starting to regain consciousness."
After being stabilized, the man was transferred to Stony Brook University Medical Center, where he was listed in critical but stable condition.
Southampton Town police praised the American Heart Association's "chain of survival" program, including CPR and defibrillation procedures, for saving the man's life.
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