White Plains cardiac patient celebrates new cooling therapy that saved her life

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Awesome story, strong work by all those involved!

White Plains cardiac patient celebrates new cooling therapy that saved her life

By Candice Ferrette

The Journal News • March 25, 2009

WHITE PLAINS - Siegrid Buhlheller doesn't remember many details about Feb. 25, but it is now a date that she and her family will likely never forget.

On that morning last month, the petite 49-year-old White Plains mother was at home when she suddenly went into cardiac arrest - her heart stopped beating and she stopped breathing - without warning.

FULL STORY: http://www.lohud.com/article/2009903250364

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cooling therapy is great, but useless without the police officers who got on scene first and the EMT's and paramedic who did the hard work to get her hart pumping again. Good job guys. Enjoy the spotlight.

[Goose 188]

It works...so....why can't we have this on Westchester ALS buses/fly cars?

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Probably for the same reason we can't we have:

-RSI or MAI

-CPAP

-Thumpers/Autopulses

-Better Analgesics and on standing order

-A prerecorded "no I won't ride in your BLS call" button like the one at staples that says "That was easy".

on every ALS unit?