EMT dies after trying to save woman: 22-year-old tears major artery giving CPR
A 22-year-old EMT died after injuring herself while performing CPR trying to save a woman’s life. Samantha Agins was at New Jersey’s camp Jaycee, which is in Pennsylvania, when a woman went into cardiac arrest. The newly certified EMT jumped right in to administer immediate life-saving maneuvers of CPR, along with using the defibrillator in an attempt to bring this woman’s heartbeat and breathing back.
According to Sports Act News on August 15, while the woman was hooked up to the automatic defibrillator, it kept telling the person performing the CPR to “push harder,” and that was Agins. The young EMT wouldn't give up and continued following the directions and performing the CPR she was certified to perform. Despite Agins best efforts, the woman couldn’t be saved.
Not long after Agins got home she suffered a major stroke. She was rushed to the hospital where doctors determined that while performing the CPR maneuvers she had torn a major artery wall, which brought on a stroke in her brain stem. She died on Tuesday at a Philadelphia hospital, according to New Jersey Online News.
Agins suffered four strokes from the time she gave that woman CPR until the time she died in that hospital bed, reports her mother, Paula Agins. Samantha lived in Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, and she was a senior at East Stroudsburg University. Her goal was to become a physician's assistant and that is what she was working towards in school.
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