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05-26-2007, 01:50 AM
EVERETT, Wash. -- June Daugherty was saved from cardiac arrest and death through extraordinary fortune on Tuesday. Now she begins life with the defibrillator that doctors installed in her chest on Thursday. reports ESPN
Associated press reports, Daugherty, 50, collapsed Tuesday at The Everett Clinic, where she had gone to discuss treatment for her cardiomyopathy. She had a physical on April 19, followed by an electrocardiogram in early May. Doctors noticed an abnormality in her heart rate so a stress test was ordered. She took her stress test Monday and was returning to the clinic Tuesday to discuss her results with a cardiologist.
Just as she parked her car, an irregular heartbeat sent her into cardiac arrest. She slumped over the wheel. Her 13-year-old daughter Breanne, who was in the car only because she was sick that day and stayed home from school, ran into the clinic to alert the doctors. They rushed out to the parking lot and used a defibrillator to shock Daugherty's heart back into rhythm. Then they raced her three miles to the hospital.
"It's almost assured that she would not have survived it had she been on the freeway five minutes earlier," said Dr. Michael Rohrenbach, her primary care physician at the clinic. "If she was at home, if she was by herself, if Bre had not been in the car with her ... She was at the right place at the right time."
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Associated press reports, Daugherty, 50, collapsed Tuesday at The Everett Clinic, where she had gone to discuss treatment for her cardiomyopathy. She had a physical on April 19, followed by an electrocardiogram in early May. Doctors noticed an abnormality in her heart rate so a stress test was ordered. She took her stress test Monday and was returning to the clinic Tuesday to discuss her results with a cardiologist.
Just as she parked her car, an irregular heartbeat sent her into cardiac arrest. She slumped over the wheel. Her 13-year-old daughter Breanne, who was in the car only because she was sick that day and stayed home from school, ran into the clinic to alert the doctors. They rushed out to the parking lot and used a defibrillator to shock Daugherty's heart back into rhythm. Then they raced her three miles to the hospital.
"It's almost assured that she would not have survived it had she been on the freeway five minutes earlier," said Dr. Michael Rohrenbach, her primary care physician at the clinic. "If she was at home, if she was by herself, if Bre had not been in the car with her ... She was at the right place at the right time."
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