Not your time yet Pete
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I had never met Pete.
This morning I was at a match- same as usual, I was working my squad as the RO and had not shot yet.
An emergency Cease fire was declared with a shooter down.
2 stages over a man named “Pete“ had suffered a massive heart attack.
When I arrived there was no pulse, no breathing.
We organized- calling and flagging for help & got to work with CPR.
This range is in the middle of nowhere.
To my absolute surprise an AED showed up.
I later learned the AED was purchased by the club and placed there YESTERDAY.
I put it on Pete and the machine advised a shock.
We hit him with the AED.
A pulse.
faint breathing.
At 72 years old Pete wasn’t done yet.
We tended to him 18 minutes until EMT’s arrived.
I didnt know what else to do so I cleaned up & shot the match.
Stage 4 we got the call Pete had made it. He was in the hospital and stable- they were running tests.
Driving home it all hit me. The AED wasn’t in place for 24 hours. Amazing.
Here are a few texts between my shooting buddies- 1 was there the others were not. My texts are in Blue.
Very rusty- weird day, but held my own at the match. On this stage, you had to shoot through 5 windows
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I've defibrillator quite a few people, but none with an AED. I've trained with them but never used one on a patient.
Good for you .AED’s are the cheapest insurance you can buy . There are grants available from several sources to help with purchase . Untold hundreds of folks are alive thanks to them . Training takes only a few hours at most . Closest thing to idiot proof of any machine I know . Every public space needs one !
A salute to you!
I’ve been involved with having to use the AED twice at work with positive results on both.
I doubt that I would of been able to hit the broad side of a barn with a shotgun after it was all said and done😃.
My nerves were shot!
Glad it all worked out
Thank God my Defensive Pistol match yesterday wasn't nearly that exciting!
Good job!
2 things I never want to use at our club, the defibrillator and the gunshot trama kit.
Well done Dave. You should be proud of yourself, keeping your head and doing what was necessary.
Well done.
Former Wilderness EMT, various Mtn. Search/Rescue teams.
Good job
Combat Vet VN
D.A.V Life Member
Good work, Gun Club Guys y'all did well in a true crisis.
Signed,
The Old Paramedic
The last update I received was yesterday afternoon. They had him at the hospital “stabilized” and were running tests on him.
He survived the “golden hour”.
One really cool feature of the AED was it had a data logger. So from the moment we had it on him, through the shock, until the EMTS removed it- the hospital docs had access to all of that data. Pretty cool.