Here is a pretty cool story about how a USFK civilian was able to save a co-workers life using CPR:
Robert Lamoureux, left, and colleague Jerry Giefer look at the spot where Giefer fell after suffering a heart attack in December. Lamoureux was honored in March by Seoul fire officials for helping save Giefer’s life with CPR. Erik Slavin/Stars and Stripes
As heart attacks go, Jerry Giefer’s timing was impeccable.
Giefer, 64, doesn’t recall much about what happened Dec. 30 at his office at the Army Corps of Engineers compound in Seoul.
One moment he was working and the next, everything went black.
It was 11:30 a.m., and co-worker Robert Lamoureux walked in after his lunch break tofind Giefer on the floor, his head bleeding from the fall.
Lamoureux, who first learned CPR as an 11-year-old Boy Scout, was about to use his training for the first time.
Lamoureux felt a pulse and then turned Giefer over. He asked a co-worker to call for an ambulance and returned his attention to his fallen friend.
Giefer’s face had turned purple, indicating an airway obstruction. Lamoureux cleared Giefer’s mouth and gave him a breath, but Giefer’s chest didn’t rise. He showed no sign of a pulse.
Lamoureux knew that his friend might not survive.
“If I’d have been here a minute later, that would’ve been it,” he said. [Stars & Stripes]
You can read the rest at the link, but great job Mr. Lamoureux.
