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WHEN EVERYTHING COMES TOGETHER
Life-saving assist for this hockey player By John Kurucz
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At 36, Bart Kupnicki’s got three decades’ worth of playing hockey in the rear-view and conceivably at least another 25 years left in the tank. But one thing’s for certain at this stage in Kupnicki’s puck pursuits: he’ll never register a more timely and important assist than the one he collected late last week. Kupnicki is credited with saving teammate Jamie Maclaren’s life after the 43-year-old suffered a post-game heart attack at Burnaby 8 Rinks on Feb. 1. The two Vancouverites had just finished an early evening Adult Safe Hockey League (ASHL) contest when Maclaren began to feel disoriented and jittery. He first brushed it off as a panic attack or heartburn. Within 15 minutes, he collapsed outside of the rink and was clinically dead. “I remember pretty much everything minus the time I was unresponsive,” Maclaren said. “I remember waking up on my back in a different position I was in before I collapsed. By this time, my whole team was outside the dressing room and they were quite visibly upset about what was going on.” What happened in the preceding minutes was a case study in good luck, good timing and quick thinking. A registered nurse for the past 10 years, Kupnicki almost immediately recognized all the signs before jumping into action. “In the back of my mind, I was preparing for the worst,” he said. “His pulse was thready, he said that he had trouble breathing and that he had chest pain. He had all the cardinal factors of
QUICK THINKING Jamie Maclaren, right, suffered a post-game heart attack at Burnaby 8 Rinks last week but is alive today thanks to his fast-acting teammate, Bart Kupnicki. Kupnicki used one of 13 automatic external defibrillators at 8 Rinks and immediately began administering CPR. Within 10 minutes, Maclaren was revived and on his way to Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET/VANCOUVER COURIER having a (heart attack).” Kupnicki got a hold of one of the 13 automatic external defibrillators (AED) at the 8 Rinks facility and immediately began administering CPR. The first round of shocks from the AED, and the subsequent chest compressions, did nothing. “For between three and four minutes, he was dead,” Kupnicki
said. Within 10 minutes, Maclaren was revived and en route to Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster. “Those last 120 seconds felt like a lifetime,” Kupnicki said. “We shocked him a second time and his eyes opened up. He was alert, he was awake, he pulled the tube out of his mouth and he
said, ‘My God, I feel like s***.’” Maclaren has been out of hospital since Feb. 4 and has had time for taking stock since. His family history on both sides have issues around high cholesterol and heart disease, though Maclaren is physically active, watches what he eats, doesn’t smoke and only drinks socially. Maclaren, who has a two-year-old son
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