By Lehia Apana
The Maui News
HALIIMAILE, Hawaii — About three weeks ago, Chris Gilbert was exercising in his Haliimaile home when he was suddenly called upon to help a neighbor who had collapsed in apparent cardiac arrest.
The 45-year-old Gilbert, a paramedic for 26 years, grabbed his automated external defibrillator (AED), rushed to the scene and found 50-year-old Reynold Nikaido lying on the floor.
“He was on the ground and had no pulse,” Gilbert remembers.
A longtime advocate of using the portable defibrillator devices to help heart attack victims, Gilbert trains local police officers, firefighters and lifeguards to use the machines to restore a normal heartbeat with an electric shock.
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