CPR Certification | Youth baseball coach saves assistant coach’s life using CPR

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CPR Certification Youth baseball coach
saves assistant coachs life using CPR
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In Spring 2017, youth baseball coach Zach Sievers
got a call from former player David Dibble
looking to land a spot on a local team. After
having a hard time finding a place for the
19-year-old college freshman, Zach did the next
best thing and offered him an assistant coaching
position on his own 16 and under Wisconsin Wave
team in Kenosha. June rolled around, and David
was in the bullpen going through the usual drills
with the team. Then it happened, Zach
remembers. David threw a pitch, the catcher
threw it back to him. David looked at me, grabbed
his chest and fell to his knees. Then came the
face plant, which was so slow and controlled that
Zach wasnt sure what to make of it. I thought
he might be playing a prank on somebody. But
David didnt budge, even after Zach called out to
him.
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Zach ran over and realized this was no
joke. Davids eyes were glazed over, his face
was gray, his lips were purple, Zach recalls. He
directed another coach to call 911 and sprung
into action. I checked Davids airways and
didnt feel any breath. I couldnt see his chest
rising. I checked for a pulse and couldnt find
one, so I started CPR. No one else at the
ballpark that day knew CPR. Thankfully, Zach had
been an electronics technician in the Navy, where
he went through regular CPR and AED
training. While to Zach it felt like 15 seconds
had passed between the time he started CPR and
the time a fire truck arrived, it had actually
been nine to 12 minutes. Where we were wasnt
the easiest place to get to, and we were between
fire zones, he says. One fireman took over CPR,
while the other ran to get the portable AED.
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When I heard the AED announce it couldnt detect
a pulse, I knew for a fact at that point that
David was in some trouble. At that point it
became real. When Zach got to the hospital,
paramedics told him they had to stop the
ambulance twice to restart Davids heart. He
still wasnt stable. I was really just hoping he
was going to make it, Zach says. Eventually the
doctor came out and pulled him aside. He told
me that if I hadnt done what I did, David would
have died. He wasnt out of the woods yet, but
his chances of living were much better. That was
hard to hear. It could have gone either
way. Flight for Life flew David to a major
hospital in Milwaukee where it was discovered
that he had atrial fibrillation (AFib).
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So, essentially his heart was just beating out
of control, so much so that he didnt have a
pulse, Zach says. It was beating at such an
interval that it was more like a flutter than a
beat. David had a defibrillator inserted and
spent a week in the hospital. While he was still
there his Aunt Connie had an epiphany. She
realized that what happened to David could happen
to anyone. She went on to start the Dibbs17 CPR
Challenge (a name created by combining Davids
nickname and number) with the goal of training
1,700 people on CPR within one year. Connie
partnered with the American Heart Association and
used its tools to train every last one of them,
and that was just the beginning of the
organization. Theyve also hosted AED Challenges,
where participants take pictures of the AED in
whatever building theyre in, just to see if they
can find it.
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Connie has done more for David than I ever did,
Zach says humbly. These days, Dibbs17 is still
going strong, and so is David. He got cleared to
play baseball again and is back on the field at
the University of Wisconsin-Superior. But the
Dibble family never forgot what Zach did for
them. They call me their angel, he says. But
its hard for me to hear thank you because I
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