Gogo Comments to NBC5 on Skier’s Cardiac Arrest Survival
Larner Professor of Medicine Prospero Gogo, M.D., an interventional cardiologist at the University of Vermont Medical Center, spoke to NBC5 about skiers who went into cardiac arrest that he and his colleagues treated this past season—one of whom recently returned to Vermont to personally thank the people who helped save his life.
Gogo said access to defibrillators and swift action along that chain of survival makes all the difference.
“We want to make sure that kind of infrastructure is available for everybody,” he said. “Making sure that schools have AEDs, that ski areas have AEDs, and that people know how to do CPR. It doesn’t have to be ski patrol. It could be someone walking by. If you see that happen, if you know how to do CPR, you will help save a life. So that’s really one of the lessons you can learn from this kind of story.”