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School staff help save co-worker's life
It was just a single gasp, as if he'd come up from underwater, but that was the signal the people bent over Mark Moskwa were hoping for: It meant the Sayville school district custodian was breathing again.

Moskwa, 59, was sweeping a hallway at the high school at 11:45 a.m. on Nov. 20 when his heart stopped. He collapsed on his back in the science wing, near the nurse's office. Students who saw him alerted nearby teachers, and Moskwa was surrounded by school nurses, their aides and staff. Science teacher Jim Knote, trained in resuscitation techniques, said Moskwa had no pulse. The staff took turns giving chest compressions, and they shocked him five times with an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) before he took his first breath.

"It was very minimal, but he was taking in oxygen," said Knote, one of the first to arrive at Moskwa's side.

It took 15 minutes for an ambulance to arrive to take him to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore.
Moskwa underwent emergency coronary surgery and doctors put a pacemaker/defibrillator in his chest to regulate his heart if it gives out again. He spent the next two days unconscious, waking on Thanksgiving.

Tuesday, still sore from his surgery, he returned to campus to thank those he said saved his life.

"It takes a particular kind of individual to step up to the plate," Moskwa said, recounting their efforts.

He wouldn't have made it, he said, without the AED or without staff trained to help in such an emergency.

Moskwa, of West Sayville, has a long history with the district. He attended Sayville schools as a youth and acted in several plays, including "The Music Man," before he graduated in 1972.

And when his own children caught the acting bug, he volunteered to build the sets, crafting a house on wheels for his daughter's performance in "The Wizard of Oz."
A former Marine, Moskwa started working as a custodian for the district last spring.

His son, Mark, 21, said his dad has always been quick to volunteer at the district and he's glad he got help when he needed it most.

"I'm incredibly grateful for everyone who was here at that time," Moskwa's son said. "For someone whose heart stopped a week ago, he looks fantastic."



"His stars were aligned," said Ellen Gugliotta, a school nurse. "He had been up on the roof a half-hour before."



http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/school-staff-help-save-co-worker-s-life-1.4266648

School staff help save co-worker's life
It was just a single gasp, as if he'd come up from underwater, but that was the signal the people bent over Mark Moskwa were hoping for: It meant the Sayville school district custodian was breathing again.

Moskwa, 59, was sweeping a hallway at the high school at 11:45 a.m. on Nov. 20 when his heart stopped. He collapsed on his back in the science wing, near the nurse's office. Students who saw him alerted nearby teachers, and Moskwa was surrounded by school nurses, their aides and staff. Science teacher Jim Knote, trained in resuscitation techniques, said Moskwa had no pulse. The staff took turns giving chest compressions, and they shocked him five times with an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) before he took his first breath.

"It was very minimal, but he was taking in oxygen," said Knote, one of the first to arrive at Moskwa's side.

It took 15 minutes for an ambulance to arrive to take him to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore.
Moskwa underwent emergency coronary surgery and doctors put a pacemaker/defibrillator in his chest to regulate his heart if it gives out again. He spent the next two days unconscious, waking on Thanksgiving.

Tuesday, still sore from his surgery, he returned to campus to thank those he said saved his life.

"It takes a particular kind of individual to step up to the plate," Moskwa said, recounting their efforts.

He wouldn't have made it, he said, without the AED or without staff trained to help in such an emergency.

Moskwa, of West Sayville, has a long history with the district. He attended Sayville schools as a youth and acted in several plays, including "The Music Man," before he graduated in 1972.

And when his own children caught the acting bug, he volunteered to build the sets, crafting a house on wheels for his daughter's performance in "The Wizard of Oz."
A former Marine, Moskwa started working as a custodian for the district last spring.

His son, Mark, 21, said his dad has always been quick to volunteer at the district and he's glad he got help when he needed it most.

"I'm incredibly grateful for everyone who was here at that time," Moskwa's son said. "For someone whose heart stopped a week ago, he looks fantastic."



"His stars were aligned," said Ellen Gugliotta, a school nurse. "He had been up on the roof a half-hour before."



http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/school-staff-help-save-co-worker-s-life-1.4266648

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CPR Save's Man's Life in Ross

Two Marin mothers saved a San Francisco man's life last weekend using CPR. Jennifer Ani of San Rafael and Michal "Miki" Goralsky of San Anselmo were at a party in Ross for first-graders at Brandeis Hillel Day School when Mike Ryan, another parent, collapsed and turned blue.

"We were all outside, and it was time for the piñata and all the kids were in line," Ani said. "I was about 10 feet from him and his eyes rolled back in his head and his knees buckled and he fell to the ground."

Goralsky began administering compressions to Ryan's chest while Ani performed mouth-to-mouth ventilations. T the first-graders were taken to another part of the property.

"CPR not only saved his life but brought him back to life ... with no damage from the heart attack due to how quickly the women acted and how well they did what they did," she said.

Dr. Brian Strunk, chief of cardiology at Marin General Hospital said all three of Ryan's arteries were blocked and he would have died without CPR.

Dr. Strunk emphasized the need for everyone to take CPR classes, emphasizing that each minute after a heart attack is critical.

"Without those two ladies doing the CPR, he would have been brain dead," Strunk said. "As it is, his head is completely intact, and they saved his heart enough." With bypass surgery he will be able to lead a normal life, Strunk said.

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