A Purim Miracle - EMTs pulled from Purim meal to perform successful CPR and save a life

• Date: 01 March 2021
• Published date: 01 March 2021
• Author: Arutz Sheva Staff
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

United Hatzalah volunteers who were in the vicinity, Adir Sinai, Chaim Tapero, Jeremy Korchia, and Eliyahu Maimon, were all alerted to the emergency.

"I had just walked into my in-law's house, to start the Purim Seudah when the alert came in. I apologized to them and rushed back out to my car and headed over to Timna street where the man had collapsed," recounted Sinai.

"When I arrived, I checked his vitals and it was clear that he had suffered a cardiac arrest. I attached a defibrillator, delivered a shock, and then proceeded to perform CPR. After a few minutes, I was joined by Eliyahu, Chaim, and Yirmi. We worked together as a team, alternating compressions and assisted ventilation until we felt that the patient started resisting."

Sinai continued, "After another round of compressions, we checked for a pulse and found one. When the mobile intensive care unit arrived, they confirmed the man's pulse returned with a heart monitor. To our shock, the man then began to open his eyes. He even tried to sit up so we had to explain to him what had just happened. It was absolutely astounding to see this man recover so fast. This doesn't generally happen, even in cases of successful CPRs."

Tapero, who works as an Egged bus driver, also left his seudah and arrived at the scene on his ambucycle. "I was in the middle of the meal with my family when I received the alert. I rushed over to the store where the man collapsed and met Adir there. I'll admit I didn't think that we would be able to save him at first, as the majority of CPR patients don't survive...