First-year University of Buffalo (N.Y.) anesthesiology residents Michael Ferrante, MD, and Alexander Heleba, MD, watched a man fall to the floor and not immediately get up upon the residents walking into KeyBank Center in Buffalo.
The residents rushed over to the man and detected a faint pulse. They began performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation until the arena's emergency services personnel arrived with a defibrillator.
After attaching the defibrillator and administering two shocks to the man, he regained consciousness and paramedics took him to the hospital.
The man underwent a triple bypass and three of his heart's arteries were 95 percent blocked. The residents met with the patient a week later, saying he looked much better.