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Emergency Physicians Help Resuscitate Scientific Assembly Attendee During Denver Conference

By Darrin Scheid, ACEP Communications Manager | on December 1, 2012 | 0 Comment
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One minute, Michael Granelli remembers sipping cappuccino at a Colorado Convention Center café, waiting for a friend and enjoying the afternoon after attending some sessions at the 2012 ACEP Scientific Assembly.

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A few moments later, he was on the floor, looking up and a bunch of people hovering over him. He talked to them briefly before emergency services arrived to transport Mr. Granelli to the nearby Denver Health Medical Center.

“It was a very strange experience, being loaded in an ambulance and taken to the hospital with the siren blaring and everything,” said Mr. Granelli, a consultant for Kinolta-Minolta.

“It wasn’t until then that I realized what had just happened. If I hadn’t been in that café…if I had been somewhere else, or if I had just stepped outside for a moment or two, things could have been much different – much worse.”

Mr. Granelli, 63, lost breath and his heart stopped beating while more than 5,000 emergency physicians were within walking distance. He doesn’t mind if people poke fun at the lucky break during a very unlucky medical emergency. And news outlets, including one television station and one local newspaper, chased the story during the four-day convention from Oct. 8-11.

“You have this happen at an emergency physician convention, people are going to talk about that irony,” he said.

One of those physicians first on the scene said there were two things working together that possibly saved a man’s life – access to equipment and physicians there with extensive knowledge of how to use them correctly.

“I was talking to one of my old faculty members when I looked over and saw some commotion in the corner,” Dr. David Pigott said. “I thought I should go over and see what was going on. Two doctors were doing CPR. Somebody got an AED. After one shock, there was no response. Shocked again, he comes back. That was basically it. It worked the way it was supposed to work, and he was able to sit up and talk by the time the ambulance arrived. People responded quickly with CPR, and the AED was right there when needed.”

The response was perhaps even quicker than it would have normally been, however, because two physicians were close enough to notice something unusual.

Former emergency department co-workers Dr. Jerry Edwards and Dr. Jared Snell were catching up when they heard a strange breath coming from the man sitting next to them. Dr. Edwards said it was more of a gasp and caught both of them off guard.

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