Runners at a Kennebunk race saved a man in cardiac arrest
Runners and bystanders started CPR on a man who collapsed while walking his dog. He was awake and talking when he reached the hospital.
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Runners and bystanders at a race in Kennebunk started CPR on a man who collapsed while walking his dog, NEWS CENTER Maine reported. He was awake and talking by the time he reached the hospital. The people who helped were runners and others already there, and the care they started was CPR. What the report establishes is that he was awake and talking at the hospital, not a later recovery beyond that.
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