CPR, defibrillator help save collapsed racquetball partner
Published 2:30 am Thursday, December 8, 2016
TULALIP — Local heroes and Red Cross volunteers were to be honored Thursday for acts of courage, selflessness and service to community. The 2016 Red Cross Centennial Heroes Breakfast, at the Tulalip Resort Casino, is a fundraising event to help support the American Red Cross serving Snohomish County.
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CPR Rescue: Scott Korthuis, Rob Read, Doug Traina
Four men were playing their customary morning racquetball game at the YMCA in Lynden one summer morning when one of them, Monte Maberry, collapsed.
Scott Korthuis, Doug Traina and Rob Read knew what to do. Traina, who had recently updated his CPR certification, started cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The others ran to the lobby to call 911 and grab the automatic external defibrillator, or AED.
Maberry was in his late 50s when he collapsed July 24, 2015, and had recently lost his wife to cancer.
Traina and paramedics worked to get a heartbeat for about 45 minutes, without success, before Maberry was taken to a hospital. There, doctors put him on life support and reduced his body temperature. By that night, he had awakened.
“He’s doing well. He has been playing racquetball on occasion. It’s amazing,” said Korthuis, who had Red Cross CPR training at his workplace. “And I really believe the Y making an investment in an AED really saved Monte’s life.”
Julie Muhlstein: 425-339-3460; jmuhlstein@heraldnet.com.
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