It goes without saying that there’s never a good time or place to have a heart attack.
But if youwereto have a heart attack, it’s hard to think of many places better to have one than when you’re surrounded by first responders — even if they’re students.
And, praise God, that’s the exact situation one Wisconsin EMT instructor found himself in.
According toWLUK-TV, EMT instructor Karl Arps was helping a group of trainees at Fox Valley Technical College in Greenville on March 25.
The students in the EMT-Basic course were actually practicing CPR scenarios with Arps in the back of an ambulance.
“At the time, I was putting the cuff around him to get a blood pressure, and I saw his hand kind of turn in the middle of that, right as I did it, and then I heard snoring — like his breathing was snoring, respirations. And his head was turning to the opposite end, and I’m sort of thinking to myself, ‘Dang, what symptom is he throwing at me now?'” student Logan Lehrer told WLUK.
Lehrer toldWGBA-TVthat Arps’ reputation for being a “really good” actor led him to hesitate about what was actually happening.
“And Karl has done scenarios where he plays the part really good, like he deserves an Oscar,” he said, before describing the exact moment he knew something was actually wrong: “You could see discoloration on his face, and we were like, OK, this is real now.”
Traci Blondeau, another instructor in the course, told WLUK that she knew right away something serious was going on.
“As I was getting in the back of the ambulance, at that point, I still wasn’t sure if it was an act or not,” Blondeau told the local Fox affiliate. “And then he did that agonal breath. You just know it when you see it.”
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