‘It’s Almost Miraculous’: Heads-Up Janitor Helps Save Doctor’s Life

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. (WCCO) — If you person a wellness emergency, you privation to spot a doctor. But astatine Alomere Health successful Alexandria, it was a custodian who helped prevention a doctor’s life.

“For astir a week anterior to that I had been having immoderate issues, flu-like symptoms,” said Dr. Amos Szajner. It was the nighttime of April 29, and due to the fact that he’s a aesculapian professional, Szajner decided to spell backmost to the infirmary and cheque himself retired connected a monitor.

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That’s the past happening helium remembers.

Kendal Hofstad is simply a custodian with Alomere and conscionable happened to beryllium successful that helping of the infirmary picking up garbage. “I opened the doorway and I thought I saw from the country of my oculus immoderate scrubs lying connected the floor. I didn’t deliberation thing of it,” Hofstad said. “I thought I amended spell implicit determination and cheque it retired and I did, and Dr. Szajner was connected the floor, unresponsive.”

Hofstad called for assistance and aft 12 agelong minutes of CPR, Szajner was helicoptered to CentraCare successful St. Cloud, wherever a ample clot was recovered successful 1 of his main arteries. “He was initially showing precise superior signs of encephalon wounded and bosom injury,” Dr. Daniel James Tiede said.

After putting successful a stent, Tiede utilized a reasonably caller portion of exertion called an Impella Pump to stabilize Szajner. It’s thinner than a pencil and takes implicit the occupation of pumping humor truthful the bosom tin rest. Within a fewer days, Szajner took a crook for the better.

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“I don’t cognize without the pump if Dr. Szajner would person survived,” Tiede said. “It’s astir miraculous.”

On Thursday morning, Szajner got a accidental to convey everyone who helped prevention his life. He’s present due to the fact that of a chap doctor, a bosom pump, and a heads-up custodian. “I’m existent blessed for him and I’m gladsome he’s doing existent well,” Hofstad said.

“When this happened we became amended friends, definitely,” Szajner said. “God is truthful large and gracious and blessed my household to person maine around. I consciousness similar each time is simply a present. It’s his gift.”

Szajner is an anesthesiologist and he’s backmost astatine work. He has been an avid stone climber successful the past and plans to get backmost to that enactment successful the adjacent future.

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He besides wanted to convey the teams astatine Alomere and CentraCare that helped him.