Nurses at Ascension Providence Hospital in Detroit performed CPR on a fellow nurse for more than 48 minutes after she passed out during a shift in April, WDIV-TV reported June 1.
Litonya Bennett, RN, an oncology nurse at the hospital, doesn't remember how she got to the nurses station when she was called there during her April 26 shift.
"They were like, 'Hey, come up front!'" Ms. Bennett told the news outlet. "They said as I got right up to the nurse's station, I just collapsed."
After finding their colleague unresponsive, oncology nurses on the floor jumped in and performed CPR for more than 48 minutes and delivered seven shocks from the defibrillator. Ms. Bennett then spent two weeks in the hospital, including a week in intensive care. She was placed on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and has since been to several follow up appointments with a cardiologist.
"The reason that she was able to survive was that she got immediate care on the floor in the hospital," Kristopher George, MD, chairman of cardiothoracic surgery at Ascension Providence, told WDIV-TV.