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Our recent client and student, Kim McEwen had just picked up her kids from Holmes Elementary when she saw a gentleman keel over on his road bike.

"When I was driving down Doomsday I noticed he had just tipped over on his bike basically," McEwen said.

With her kids still strapped inside their car seats McEwen rushed to the tangle of rider and cycle and knew just what to do.

"So I did chest compressions, checked for a pulse, realized he was not breathing so I did compressions again and at that time he did start to faintly breathe," she said.

The man stopped breathing again about the same time John Sims joined rolled up on his way home from class.

"I pulled over to make sure that everybody had CPR training and they did but I wanted to hang out, just help out and make sure the guy was OK," Sims said.

Together McEwen and Sims were able to revive the cyclist and waited with him until paramedics arrived.

"The adrenaline is running! I have never done that before," McEwen said. "I am trained to infant CPR, I am a newborn hearing screener; to do anybody it was a very incredible experience."

"I was really nervous; I've never done it before but now that I've done it I'd be really comfortable doing it again. It feels really good to help," Sims said.

A video on the Spokane Fire Department's website now teaches "Hands Only CPR." The idea is to do rapid chest compressions - about 100 a minute - which will the blood in cardiac arrest victims flowing. (Resprent of KZLY TV News Report, April 2012)

Go to: cprhealthtrainingnetwork.com to select your class.

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