Des Moines Metro Pickleball Club
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It could happen anytime. From The Dnk:
When Rory Bakke collapsed at the Miller Park pickleball courts in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, his girlfriend, Sunny Saengdara, didn't hesitate.
Saengdara is a nurse. After checking for a pulse, she began CPR and utilized the on-court automated external defibrillator, or AED, to restart Bakke's heart, which had been in cardiac arrest, according to CBS News Minnesota.
"Rory would not be alive if it wasn't for that," said Saengdara.
Amazingly, the AED had been installed less than two weeks before the incident.
"It actually brings tears to my eyes," said Paul Mendoza, whose company, Advanced First Aid, installed the machine after it was requested by Eden Prairie Parks and Recreation in the spring.
"Having an AED shock right away is a game-changer because that's the treatment, the only treatment that can save someone's life," he added.
Mendoza said Bakke is the fourth person this year alone saved on a pickleball court by one of his company's AEDs.
