HADDON TWP, NJ-- Police officers used a defibrillator Saturday to revive a 17-year-old boy who collapsed while running in Cooper River Park.
The incident occurred around 9:30 a.m. when two Haddon Township officers dispatched to an area near South Park Drive and Shady Lane “were flagged down by a group of teens and their coach from a nearby high school who had been cross-country training around the park,” according to a police account.
The runner, whose name was not released, “had stopped breathing and was turning blue” when officers Leonard Zacamy and William Moore arrived, the account said.
The officers administered CPR, then determined the youth had no pulse.
They next applied three shocks to the boy’s chest with an automated external defibrillator.
“Following the last shock, the victim began to regain consciousness,” the police account said.
The youth was admitted to Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, where he was expected to make a full recovery.
SOURCE: Courier Post