Emergency experts set on improving dismal odds of survival in highrises

Tony Fagan died precisely the same way his mom did many years earlier: from cardiac arrest after doing laps in a swimming pool. Both were rushed to St. Paul’s Hospital, except Fagan was successfully resuscitated by paramedics within three minutes of his heart stopping.
En route to the hospital, paramedics actually shocked his heart numerous times to restart it.
The Lafarge concrete-truck operator — now on medical leave — says in the minutes before his heart stopped, he was hype