MIRACULOUS: Body cam footage shows Utah nurse save man’s life

MURRAY, Utah (ABC4) – In a matter of seconds after officers mentioned Darren Ewell collapsed, Danya Topham was operating onto the baseball subject. 

Not discovering a pulse, Topham, an off-duty registered nurse at Intermountain Healthcare start administering CPR. When first responders from the Murray Police Division and Fireplace Division took over, Topham mentioned she advised her son she didn’t assume Ewell was going to make it.

However proper earlier than the ambulance doorways closed, Topham heard somebody converse to Ewell. 

“I believed, ‘Holy crap. He awakened!’ I used to be simply in shock,” mentioned Topham. “I used to be so excited.”

Ewell mentioned he doesn’t bear in mind a lot about that evening apart from waking up within the hospital with damaged ribs, however he desperately needed to satisfy the lady who saved his life. 

“If she didn’t instantly take aggressive motion and do CPR and, you understand, break my ribs, as my physician mentioned, ‘There’s no approach you’d have had the psychological school to even survive a coronary heart assault as a result of the oxygen wouldn’t have gotten to your mind’” mentioned Ewell. 

On Tuesday, Murray metropolis leaders introduced Topham, in addition to a number of first responders, obtained life-saving awards for his or her actions.

Topham mentioned she hopes this story encourages extra folks to discover ways to do CPR, one thing town of Murray presents at no cost on the second Tuesday of each month.