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[Text on screen:
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Saving a Buckeye fan's life]

[Text on screen:
Carmen Zone
California resident]

Carmen Zone: Being a Buckeye's fan, I was born in Youngstown, Ohio. I just have that Ohio tie. Of course, watching the games whenever I can on the weekends.

[Text on screen:
Samantha Kirby
Carmen's daughter]

Samantha Kirby: The game that kind of worked out for everybody's schedule was the one against Ohio University.

Carmen Zone: Made our trek up to the C deck. I kind of felt lightheaded and dizzy at the B deck. I just kind of blew it off. I got to the C deck and pulled out my phone, which had all the tickets on it, and everything just kind of turned black.

Samantha Kirby: This was something a little bit more than just CPR, and he's going to wake up out of it and kind of just ran for help. Within a matter of seconds, there was swarm of EMS, swarm of police officers.

[Text on screen:
Ashish Panchal, MD, PhD
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Ohio State Wexner Medical Center]

Ashish Panchal, MD, PhD: One of the things we talk about a lot is the chain of survival. All these different strengthened links to work together to save a life. In Carmen's situation, everything came together. We had people at the scene who started to do CPR. Then we had someone come over with an AED and use that device. Then you had the firefighters come over and transport Carmen to a higher level of care at Ohio State University.

Carmen Zone:
Knowing I was at a major university that has an excellent medical program and feeling the care it provided this calmness and I felt safe. What they determined was that I had a very low level of potassium in my blood, and potassium is critical to heart conductivity.

Ashish Panchal, MD, PhD: So cardiac arrest is when the heart stops, and there's a lot of reasons, but one of the primary reasons for a heart stopping is an electrical disturbance. So now it's not beating like it should, and so the blood is not going through the body.

Carmen Zone: The doctors felt the best safety measure was to install a subcutaneous defibrillator onto my chest. If I was to experience a similar arrhythmia like that in the future, it would provide a shock and get my rhythm back, hopefully to a normal rhythm. The staff in the ER room were outstanding.

Samantha Kirby: I don't think I could have ever imagined anybody doing any better than the OSU staff. They were amazing and the sweetest people I've ever met.

Carmen Zone: I feel like I'm getting back to myself.

Samantha Kirby: I'll take whatever time I can get. Even though the circumstances weren't the best for his extended stay, I'm just thankful that he's here.

[Text on screen:
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
For more information, visit: wexnermedical.osu.edu/heart-vascular]

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