A portable defibrillator may have saved the life of a 62-year-old ballplayer after he collapsed at Stazio Ball Fields in Boulder this week.
The man while sitting in the dugout Monday morning when the incident happened. His teammates shouted for help as they began assisting him.
Boulder firefighter Brian Marron and police officer John Smith were on another field warming up for a softball game with a fire and police personnel team called Guns and Hoses.
They ran over, found that the man wasn’t breathing, and took over chest compressions and ventilation.
Soon thereafter, Jay Keavany, the city field supervisor at Stazio, arrived with an automated external defibrillator that is kept at the ball fields. Smith and Marron used the AED in conjunction with CPR to revive the man. When on-duty fire crews, police and paramedics arrived, he was breathing on his own and responsive.
He was taken to the hospital, where he remains today, the city said in a news release. The man wasn’t identified. Guns and Hoses went on to play softball, said Paul Bousquet, spokesman for the Boulder Parks and Recreation Department.
“They won,” he said.
“All of those involved say a combination of citizen action, a professional response by fire, police and recreation employees who were in the right place at the right time, and the newly installed equipment contributed to reviving the man,” the release said.
