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...Retired Painters rep Kirkpatrick performs lifesaving CPR
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The AutoPulse, with its delivery of
uninterrupted, high-quality chest com-
pressions, substituted for Anglin’s heart
and kept the blood and oxygen circulat-
ing to his vital organs.
Estacada Fire Department Engineer
Tim Corner told the Labor Press that the
treatment applied to Anglin that after-
noon took all five emergency respon-
ders (three from the Fire Department,
and two from AMR). “The AutoPulse
freed us to perform those other life-sav-
ing tasks,” he said.
Corner noted that the fire department
had just acquired AutoPulse in mid-July
and Anglin was its first patient.
Back at his home in Estacada, An-
glin expressed gratitude to Kirkpatrick,
the fire department, AMR paramedics,
and the nurses and doctors who treated
him. All of the workers have union af-
filiations. Firefighters are members of
Clackamas Fire Fighters Local 1159;
emergency medical technicians at AMR
are Teamsters, and nurses are members
of Oregon Federation of Nurses and
Health Care Professionals Local 5017
at Kaiser Sunnyside and the Oregon
Nurses Association at Providence.
Anglin reiterated that all emergency
rescuers should have access to the Au-
toPulse, and that everyone should learn
how to administer CPR.
Most union training centers require
apprentices to complete CPR training,
and classes are always available to jour-
neymen and
women.
In addition
to CPR train-
ing, Plumbers
and Fitters Lo-
cal 290 (An-
glin’s union)
promotes the
use of Auto-
mated External
Defibrillators
(AEDs). “AEDs
tell you exactly
what to do. Anyone can use one,” said
John Endicott, business manager of
Local 290.
The lunch-box-size devices are at
the union’s training centers in Tualatin
and Springfield.
Endicott said over the past 10 years
AEDs, which cost about $1,500, have
become more commonplace at schools,
office buildings, airports and other pub-
lic places.
In a recent article published in the
Columbian newspaper in Vancouver,
Oregon Health & Science University
Dr. Mohamud Daya said someday
AEDs “will probably become like fire
extinguishers.”
The AutoPulse sells for about
$15,000 a unit and
is to be used only
by trained medical
personnel.
“The Auto-
Pulse is picking up
speed, but it’s not
common yet,”
Trickey said.
John Phelps, a
sales rep for Au-
toPulse manufac-
turer Zoll Medical
Corporation, said
28 devices are in use by emergency
medical service responders and hospi-
tals in Oregon, 16 in Washington, and
only 3,100 nationwide.
The AutoPulse can be found in Her-
miston, Pendleton, Springfield, Eugene,
and along the Central Oregon Coast.
“Sandy and Estacada fire depart-
ments were the first to get them in the
Portland area,” Phelps told the Labor
Press.
Sandy firefighters also saved a per-
‘...it’s important that
you get involved if
you see someone
collapse and stop
breathing.’
son’s life using the AutoPulse.
Kirkpatrick and other firefighters
agree that it’s important to know CPR
and to have access to AEDs and the Au-
toPulse, but he says it’s “also important
that you get involved if you see some-
one collapse and stop breathing.”
Kirkpatrick pointed to studies that
show only 20 to 30 percent of by-
standers perform CPR when someone
needs it. Researchers have found that in
many cases the reason people didn’t
help was because they were reluctant to
put their mouth on someone else’s.
More recent studies, however, show
that compression-only CPR is just as ef-
fective as traditional CPR, which in-
volves both compressions and mouth-
to-mouth resuscitation.
“We are dealing with an aging work-
force and a lot of unhealthy lifestyles,
— smoking, high fat and salt diets,”
Q
Corner said. “Add to that strenuous
work like construction and that’s a bad
recipe.”
Anglin admits that he did all the
wrong things by smoking, eating high
calorie foods, and not exercising, other
than the physical demands of his job.
“I thought I was immune. I was in
total denial,” he said.
More than a month after the episode,
Anglin has a defibrillator implanted in
his chest. He’s quit smoking, eliminated
all salt from his diet, and he takes statins
for high cholesterol.
“I know it’s hard advice to hear, but
cut back on salt and give up cigarettes,”
Anglin tells his union brothers and sis-
ters. “You’ll be better off when you re-
tire. Look at me. I can’t hunt or fish by
myself anymore. I thought I was inde-
structible. I’m not. You’re not. It will
beat you.”
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