By James Shea
TriCities.com
ROGERSVILLE – David Hillard had one foot in death’s door on New Year’s Day when physicians and nurses at Hawkins County Memorial Hospital and paramedics at Hawkins County EMS pulled him back among the living.
Wayne Elam, paramedic supervisor with Hawkins County EMS, said Hillard had been lying in a culvert and in water near his Bulls Gap residence for about 14 hours. When the EMS crew arrived, they medically induced a coma in Hillard.
As they began the ride to the hospital, Hillard went into cardiac arrest. Hawkins County EMS attempted to restore his heart beat with medications and CPR and tried to warm his body with heating pads, hot packs and warm intravenous fluids during his 15-minute ride to the hospital.
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