  Jeff Dubois The students and trainer, right, who helped resuscitate a man after he collapsed and stopped breathing. They're holding the defibrilator they used.
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High School Students, Trainer Save Jogger's Life
Posted: 8:44 pm PDT October 13, 2009Updated: 1:51 pm PDT October 14, 2009
AUBURN, Wash. -- High school students and a school athletic trainer are credited for saving a jogger who collapsed and stopped breathing in Auburn.The man was on a run when he had a medical problem and made it to Mountainview High School before collapsing.
WATCH IT: Students' Training Pays Off When Jogger CollapsesAnita Voraphet and Jas Kiran Kaur were out on the football field and first spotted the man by the bleachers."We ran towards the guy. We just saw him on the ground and it looked like a seizure," said Kaur.The girls called high school senior Crystal Chi and school staff trainer Aaron Pierce, who were there for a sports medicine training program, from the training room.Pierce is an assistant for the school's sports medicine program, which teaches students life-saving skills.Chi grabbed one of the school's automatic defibrillators and hooked it up while Pierce administered CPR."He was definitely not there. (He had) discoloration, he looked like he was unconscious and he wasn't responding," said Chi.At some point, the man's heart stopped, and the trainers used the defibrillator to restart the man's heart.Sports medicine teacher and head athletic trainer Steve Calhoun taught all of the students who helped save the jogger's life, including Pierce, who graduated from Auburn High School in 2004."We knew at some point the AED (automatic electronic defibrillator) would come and save a life," said Calhoun.Seven years ago, Calhoun organized school fundraisers to buy the portable defibrillators for every school in the district.There are three AEDs at Mountainview High School, strategically placed so people on campus are always within three minute's distance of a machine."Our schools are being used by the community 24-7, and anybody can go down at any time. And we knew this was a great tool for our community," said Calhoun.Medics took the man, who is in his 40s, to the hospital but he didn't have any identification.At some point, the man's family found out what happened and came to the hospital. The man is the father of a student at the school, said KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Jeff Dubois.The man is in stable condition at a hospital.Emergency responders said if the teenagers and trainer hadn't been there to help, he probably would have died.The student medicine trainees were at the school Tuesday to attend a football practice.
WATCH IT: Students' Training Pays Off When Jogger CollapsesAnita Voraphet and Jas Kiran Kaur were out on the football field and first spotted the man by the bleachers."We ran towards the guy. We just saw him on the ground and it looked like a seizure," said Kaur.The girls called high school senior Crystal Chi and school staff trainer Aaron Pierce, who were there for a sports medicine training program, from the training room.Pierce is an assistant for the school's sports medicine program, which teaches students life-saving skills.Chi grabbed one of the school's automatic defibrillators and hooked it up while Pierce administered CPR."He was definitely not there. (He had) discoloration, he looked like he was unconscious and he wasn't responding," said Chi.At some point, the man's heart stopped, and the trainers used the defibrillator to restart the man's heart.Sports medicine teacher and head athletic trainer Steve Calhoun taught all of the students who helped save the jogger's life, including Pierce, who graduated from Auburn High School in 2004."We knew at some point the AED (automatic electronic defibrillator) would come and save a life," said Calhoun.Seven years ago, Calhoun organized school fundraisers to buy the portable defibrillators for every school in the district.There are three AEDs at Mountainview High School, strategically placed so people on campus are always within three minute's distance of a machine."Our schools are being used by the community 24-7, and anybody can go down at any time. And we knew this was a great tool for our community," said Calhoun.Medics took the man, who is in his 40s, to the hospital but he didn't have any identification.At some point, the man's family found out what happened and came to the hospital. The man is the father of a student at the school, said KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Jeff Dubois.The man is in stable condition at a hospital.Emergency responders said if the teenagers and trainer hadn't been there to help, he probably would have died.The student medicine trainees were at the school Tuesday to attend a football practice. Copyright 2009 by KIROTV.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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