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Dixon student employees save heart attack victim

Student informs Dixon Rec Center staff of man in cardiac arrest, student employees step in to save his life by using Automated External Defibrillator

Taryn Luna

Issue date: 4/10/09 Section: News
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From left to right: Dixon Recreation Center employees Miles Dodge, Trow Snow, Joey Jenkins and Ben Misley in a photograph from Spring 2007. They were the first to respond to a heart attack victim Wednesday morning.
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From left to right: Dixon Recreation Center employees Miles Dodge, Trow Snow, Joey Jenkins and Ben Misley in a photograph from Spring 2007. They were the first to respond to a heart attack victim Wednesday morning.
Three student-workers of the Dixon Recreation Center used an Automated External Defibrillator Wednesday morning to save the life of an OSU faculty member found lying in the men's locker room unconscious, not breathing and with no pulse.

An AED is used to administer electrical shock to restore a victim's heart beat in a situation of sudden cardiac arrest.

At approximately 7:30 a.m., OSU business student and Dixon employee Miles Dodge, 21, said he was working in the area when a student came up to him in a towel and informed him that a man had fallen down and was on the ground in the locker room.

Sports Facilities and Operations Coordinator Troy Snow said Dodge was on the scene within 30 to 45 seconds of the man's collapse.

"I went in un-expecting and then I saw it and my first reaction was 'Oh crap, wow, this is it,'" Dodge said. "I didn't think after that; I just responded."

Dodge radioed for someone to call 911.

The man's head was lying in a pool of blood from a gash on his forehead, and Dodge immediately discovered that the man didn't have a pulse and wasn't breathing. Dodge asked Michael Tasman, the OSU Triathlon Club coach who had flocked to the scene with him and was trained in CPR, to watch the man while he went to get an AED. Tasman confirmed that there were no signs of life and opened the man's airway.

Less than 30 seconds later, Dodge returned with the AED. Dixon employee Joey Jenkins, who was not on the clock but using the locker room, and Ben Misley, another off-duty employee, heard about what was going on and responded to the scene to help.

"Having Joey and Ben there gave me a lot of confidence because there are no two other guys I'd rather have with me," Dodge said. Jenkins had previously acted as a mentor to both Dodge and Misley through a system set up for Rec Sports employees.

As Dodge prepared the mask to perform mouth to mouth, Misley cut off the man's shirt and Jenkins set up the AED.
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Vedas Crane

posted 4/10/09 @ 1:25 PM PST

Miles, Joey and Ben Good job done. Miles I am so amazed but not surprised with your quick response. I know for a fact your mom and dad are so very proud of you. (Continued…)

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Cindy Pomeroy

posted 4/17/09 @ 12:41 PM PST

My whole family is grateful for the quick, professional response that you had in saving the life of our cousin and nephew, Dr. Mike. thanks you, thank you. (Continued…)

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