By Joe Rojas-Burke, The Oregonian
Oregon Study Plays Key Role in Finding Clues to Sudden Cardiac Arrest
Wooziness hit Greg Wooldridge just as he and his wife were about to drive home from shopping. Seconds later, the 61-year-old Portland man slumped forward in the passenger seat, his heartbeat lapsed into an ineffective chaos.
His wife, Anita, pounded the car horn to summon help from store employees, who called 9-1-1. She then pulled her 6-foot-3, 200-pound husband out of the car to begin life-saving chest compressions in a desperate race to keep him from dying. Eight minutes later, firefighter paramedics arrived and delivered electric shocks from a defibrillator to jolt his stalled heart back into action.
Against long odds, Wooldridge survived. But cardiologists never found an explanation for his near-death experience on that December day in 2008.
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