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Summit Police Save Unconscious Man At Repair Shop

"There's a look a patient has when they're in cardiac arrest," an officer says in the video (link below).

Caren Lissner, Patch Staff

Posted Mon, Dec 21, 2020

Summit, NJ police saved an unconscious 53-year-old man on Dec. 3. 

Watch the video below: (Caren Lissner/Patch)

SUMMIT, NJ — After Summit police got a call on Dec. 3 about an unresponsive employee at a local repair shop, they rushed to action, ultimately saving his life — and it was all caught on their video (below).

The first officer to respond, Gerald McDermott, saw that the 53-year-old man had no vital signs.

"I've been on multiple CPR calls, and there's a look a patient has when they're in cardiac arrest," McDermott explains in the video.

"It came out as originally an unconscious male, and got upgraded to a CPR in progress," says Officer Collin Scarpello, who arrived and helped officer Christopher Walsh use a defibrillator (AED) to try to restore the man's normal heart rhythms.

The Summit First Aid Squad took the man to Overlook Hospital, where he is expected to recover. "Unfortunately, a lot of these calls don't end that way," says Scarpello.

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"I would just like to extend my well wishes to the gentleman and his family and wish them a happy, healthy 2021," McDermott says.

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