Sara Khari
Appearances
Radiolab
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
Of course, there is a particular method to it. Definitely listen to the episode for more on how to do it. But the idea is there's no mouth-to-mouth, there's no counting breaths, just pushing on the chest.
Radiolab
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
Yes. Okay, so this is a story that starts in the middle of the night a few months ago in Waco, Texas, when a man named John Lowe is startled awake.
Radiolab
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
Now, John had actually heard about this technique a couple months earlier when he was in a CPR training at work.
Radiolab
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
He had talked about how when a heart stops, like in a cardiac arrest.
Radiolab
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
Just pushing. And now... Hi, Sarah. Oh, my God. Hello. It's clear every second made a difference. How are you feeling? I really feel very good.
Radiolab
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
And what Angie would later learn is that night, John did six and a half minutes of hands-only CPR, no small feat. And then an ambulance arrived and took her to the hospital.
Radiolab
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
And she says it got her thinking about this idea called the chain of survival.
Radiolab
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
And she and John have both been thinking a lot about all the people that were a part of her chain of survival.
Radiolab
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
He turns his head and he realizes it's coming from his wife, Angie, who's lying next to him in bed.
Radiolab
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
That's that's incredible, you guys. I mean, I know I speak for everybody on the show when I say that knowing that we were one small part of that chain of survival is like a mind blowing. And just so I think we were all just so grateful that that it made a difference.
Radiolab
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
He has this horrible realization that his wife is likely having some kind of cardiac arrest. And for an instant, he does what any of us would do. He freezes.
Radiolab
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
John told me that not long before this moment, just a few weeks before, he had heard an episode we released called How to Save a Life, in which doctor slash Radiolab correspondent Avira Mitra told everyone about a new way of doing CPR.