App helps save Seattle cardiac patient
October 21, 2016
SEATTLE (AP) — If your heart is going to stop, right outside a hospital is not a bad place for it.
And if 41 people within a 330-yard radius have a cellphone app alerting them to your distress, so much the better.
That's what happened in Seattle last week when Stephen DeMont collapsed at a bus stop in front of University of Washington Medical Center.
While a medical student rushed over and began chest compressions, a cardiac nurse just getting off her shift was alerted by her phone, sprinted outside and assisted until paramedics arrived.
Five days later, DeMont, 60, is walking, smiling and tal...
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