PHOENIX -- A Phoenix police officer used a defibrillator to help save a passenger's life at Sky Harbor International Airport Monday morning.
According to an airport spokeswoman, a 50-year-old passenger collapsed in line at a security checkpoint at 5:35 a.m. Phoenix police Officer Brian Warren responded to the scene and found the passenger not breathing. Two witnesses, who happened to be nurses, were performing CPR. Warren reportedly used an Airport automated external defibrillator (AED) to shock the unidentified passenger one time. Phoenix police Officers Kim Walsh, Tim Essick and Paul Rooks arrived and took turns administering CPR. Phoenix firefighters transported the patient to the hospital in critical condition.
Officials at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport say it was the 25th time an airport AED was used to save someone at the airport since the defibrillators were installed in December 2000. They say the nurses were performing CPR but the passenger wasn't breathing when Warren responded. He located one of the airport's 75 defibrillators and used it once to shock the passenger. Other officers arrived and took turns administering CPR before firefighters arrived and took the passenger to a hospital.
Officials say privacy rules prevent more information on the passenger.
SOURCE: AZfamily.com, AP