So here i am at work and i go over to check on my guys, guy one all good guy 2 good but had some questions i answered them and moved on guy 3 good guy 4 oh **** no where to be found. I begin looking for him and i find him laying over a piece of machinery holding his chest with both hands and sweating very bad. I am now on high alert as 4th guy has had some heart problems over the last year (stints).

I grab him and he is unresponsive i am now scared for him very scared as i have never seen what a heart attack is..
I get him into a chair and he seems to be a bit better but still sweating and shaking badly. I tell him I'm calling a ambulance he says NO i need my pills, i reach into his top pocket and there are nitro pills and i place one under his tongue and he seems a bit better still. He says the pain is subsiding and he begins to get up and bam down he goes... Now i am calling EMS and they arrive and instantly take him away. I sit here now waiting for news and ponder what i could have done different. I am trained in first aid and cpr so i know some. But this has me a bit freaked out and i wonder if i should have just called it in as soon as i seen it???. I am 2nd guessing myself here and hopefully he will be fine. DAm man he is only 40 years old.............

 

Don't second guess your decision. You did the right thing.

 

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You did the right thing. There is no need to 2nd guess that

 

Hindsight is 20/20. At least we think so.

You did good.


I'm a first aid/CPR instructor

 

You did the right thing.

Dude's only 40 & on nitro? Man, he's a ticking bomb.

 

The first and most important thing was getting that pill in him. That's all that matters.

 

You did the right thing. He was breathing, there is nothing more you could do for him. You called EMS, they are trained and can get him to the hospital for treatment.
6 years ago I was driving home on a rainy Friday night from visiting my parents. I was 2 miles from home on a 4 lane divided highway. As I left an intersection, I entered a dark section of road. A woman darted from the median wearing a black shirt and dark pants right in front of me. I was going about 40 mph when she started to run across in front of me. I swerved, laid on the horn but I clipped her. I pulled over, grabbed my cell phone, called 911 and ran out into traffic to keep other cars from hitting her. She was uncounsious in the road. I am an Eagle scout and have taken numerous first air courses, but when its real in front of you, nothing prepares you for it. I got to her, verified she was breathing, and tried to keep her still. Ems arrived within minutes. Best I could do was keep the other people who stopped to help from moving her, in case of any spinal injuries. They airlifted her and she passed 3 days later. I was questioned by a detective that night and again a few days later. I was not speeding, not talking on my cell phone, not switching cds, nothing. Turned out she was intoxicated and have left a local bar. Not a day goes by that I don't think about that night and if there was anything I could have done different. I know I did everything I could. You did everything you could.
Wow, sorry to hijack a post, but I have never really talked about this on here before....much to anyone really..

 

As long as you did everything you could, you did your best. Sounds like you did the right thing by getting the pill in him right away.

Jesse, I'm sure that night has made you think a lot over the years but if she was wearing black and walked out in front of you there was nothing you could have done. I've almost hit a person before wearing black walking down the road at 11pm because you can't see them until the last second.

 

nitro is amazing, my mom is 38 and she has heart troubles and one day she looked like she was dying. gave her a pill of nitro and in a minute she is just fine! you did the right thing, thats what your supposed to do, good job being alert!

 

I'm EMT in training, and from what I'm taught you did everything perfectly. But if you knew he had heart problems you should've begin calling as soon as you saw him holding his chest. Never second guess a chance to call 911 because there is no "wrong time" to call an ambulance. Worst case scenario the medics who are sitting in Lay-Z-Boys watching Three's Company have to pause it for 20 minutes. Heck, we got a call for a 9 y/o with a splinter the other day.

 

wow thats strange..the same thing happened here to a guy i know. he was driving at night, pouring rain, and a woman wearing all black ran out into the highway, she was on extacy or some kind of drug. he couldnt help but hit her, he hit her dead on and killed her instantly

 

this^^^ im an EMT in paramedic school and thats what we are here for, soemthing as serious as chest pain should never been delayed, yes his nitro pills couldve helped but 911 shouldve been called first, and the nitro pills couldve been administered while you were on the phone with 911

 

Good job!

 

Thanks to everyone and i just got a call he is being admitted and further testing is being done. They are not sure if he had a heart attack again or if it is something else. I just know that he was the most uncomfortable man i have ever seen in his situation... and man thats hard to wacth close up.