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Hey, y'all. Lulu here. Okay, so before we get going with today's show, I'm going to hand it off to producer Sara Khari, who's going to tell us a brief story.
Yes. Okay, so this is a story that starts in the middle of the night a few months ago in Waco, Texas, when a man named John Lowe is startled awake.
So I hear a horrible, loud, sort of gurgly, gaspy, snoring-type sound.
He turns his head and he realizes it's coming from his wife, Angie, who's lying next to him in bed.
She is laying flat on her back and her head is tilted way off to the side. But then when I turned her head, her eyes are wide open, just glassy. And I can see her lips are starting to turn blue. And I cannot wake her no matter how hard I try.
He has this horrible realization that his wife is likely having some kind of cardiac arrest. And for an instant, he does what any of us would do. He freezes.
But then... This was where the Radiolab episode, How to Save a Life, came into play.
John told me that not long before this moment, just a few weeks before, he had heard an episode we released called How to Save a Life, in which doctor slash Radiolab correspondent Avira Mitra told everyone about a new way of doing CPR.
Sort of a new form of CPR that's trying to make things a lot simpler, and it's just hands-only CPR, where it's literally just push hard and fast on the chest.
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