18-year-old helps save man at Wootton High School
A Montgomery County family is crediting three people with saving a life. The three: A teacher at Wootton High School, an emergency room doctor and the 18-year-old student government president who just so happens to be a trained EMT.
ROCKVILLE, M.d. (FOX 5 DC) - A Montgomery County family is crediting three people with saving a life.
The three: A teacher at Wootton High School, an emergency room doctor and the 18-year-old student government president who just so happens to be a trained EMT.
Vivek Majumdar was standing here on the field when someone came out of the Wootton Stadium bathroom screaming for help.
Majumdar and a parent, who just so happens to be an ER doctor, ran into the bathroom and took over.
Majumdar says the pair knew what to do—chest compression and getting a defibrillator.
The teacher helped get the defibrillator.
The man eventually got a pulse and was taken to a nearby hospital.
Majumdar, the son of two physicians, says this was his training and he sprang into action, and he’s encouraging others to learn CPR.
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