At a wedding in Massachusetts, prompt efforts by a bride and her nursing friends prevented a man from passing away from a heart attack.
What should be a happy day turned out to be one that almost made a turn for the worse.
But thanks to the healthcare workers on the scene, the man came out of it alive.
It was a wedding to remember.
When they spotted the guy on the floor, struggling from a heart attack known as the “widow maker,” the bride, Micaela Johnson, an ER nurse, and five of her friends who are also ER nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston sprung into action.
One of the guests called 911 and blurted out, “We’re at a wedding and we think someone’s had a heart attack.”
Guests started calling 911.
“We’re at a wedding. We just had somebody go down on the floor,” another one said in complete horror.
“We were dancing and I heard somebody screaming for the band to stop playing the music,” the bride recounted of the incident.
When she saw him, she knew.
“He wasn’t the right color, he wasn’t breathing properly, and so they went in and did a quick assessment and started doing CPR on him,” she continued.
Amanda, the other nurse, also said, “It was chaos, but like a controlled chaos among us as a group.”
Thankfully, the right people were around.
The bride is an emergency department nurse, which is a wonderful coincidence, and many wedding attendees were licensed nurses.
They acted quickly to assist the struggling man on the dance floor.
Johnson and the other five visitors are all employees of Boston’s renowned Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Since they work in the ER, they were trained exceptionally to save people in situations such as this.
Everything worked out for the best.
The man was kept alive by the nurses using a defibrillator on his chest and CPR until an ambulance came and took him to the hospital.
“This was very like spur of the moment, everybody just kind of jumped in,” another nurse shared.
It could have been worse.
It came out that the visitor suffered a serious heart attack known as a “widow-maker,” which frequently results in death.
Good thing is that the venue had a defibrillator which definitely increased the man’s chances.
“It seemed like a very long time that we were working on him and doing CPR and getting shocked,” another one of the nurses said.
The bride recalled that if the heart attack had occurred anywhere else, the man would not have survived.
He was fortunate that it occurred during the bride’s wedding while he was surrounded by experienced nurses, whose quick action saved his life.
Kudos to the wedding bride and guests who quickly put on their capes to save the day.
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