MUSTANG, Okla. — Paramedics revived one of their own when EMSA medic Jim McClung, 48, began having chest pains and raced to the Mustang Fire Department, less than a mile from his home.
“By the time we find him, he’s on his knees in the grass,” fellow EMSA medic Greg Ford told KFOR.com.
McClung was suffering from a massive blockage in the main artery to his heart.
“The look on the EKG that we do, they call it a widow-maker,” Ford said. “It’s called a widow-maker for a reason. You don’t survive them. I’ve not had one [patient] that’s ever made it to the ICU.”
Yet he and firefighter Josh Moore worked for 20 minutes to save McClung, and transport him to the hospital.
“He made the comment to me, he said, ‘I’m going to die,’ Ford said. “And I said, ‘Not in the back of my truck you’re not.”
McClung was delivered to the emergency room alive.
“He did die on us. Thank goodness, on the way to the hospital we did get him back,” Moore said. McClung is recovering, and says he is eager to get back to work.
“I’m supposed to be doing the saving, not the one being saved,” he said. “I’m very happy to be here. It’s a second chance at life. I’m going to take full advantage of it and go out and, hopefully, do some great things.”