Man Credits Defibrillator With Saving His Life at Maple Leaf ParadeBy, Jessica Larsen, LaCrosseTribune.comWilliam Kendhammer was sipping a cold beer Saturday at the Maple Leaf Parade, chatting with a friend. The next thing he remembers, he was staring up at emergency personnel as they fought to save his life. “He was essentially dead,” said Dr. Kristof Gehrke, a physician in Mayo Clinic Health System’s intensive care unit. Kendhammer, a 34-year-old father of two, had gone into sudden cardiac arrest.
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