New York Success Stories

January 26, 2007

Doctor, defibrillator bring man back to life after Rye tennis court collapse

RYE, NY (News 12) – 01/26/07 – A White Plains doctor used her medical skills to save a man whose heart stopped while playing tennis in […]
February 5, 2007

School Says State-Required Defibrillator Saved Studen

By OMAR AQUIJE, oaquije@poststar.com Monday, February 5, 2007 10:55 PM EST GLENS FALLS – A 7-year-old student is alive today because of an automatic external defibrillator […]
February 14, 2007

Recognizing Save #30 for Louis’ Law!

Pictured (left to right): Physical education teacher Joe Mercado, Nurse Edwina Cook, Survivor Sadrettin Akgun, Nurse Ana Andersen and Custodian Tom Gortman. On February 14, 2007, […]
April 28, 2007

‘He Was My Savior’ Bay Shore oral surgeon, advocate of lifesaving device, uses it to save women

BY SOPHIA CHANG sophia.chang@newsday.com Dr. Craig Levine couldn’t save his 9-year-old son, Robbie, from dying of sudden cardiac arrest on a Little League ballfield in September […]
June 16, 2007

Three Bystanders, One Defibrillator Combine to Save a Life

DICK CASEPOST-STANDARD COLUMNIST “Without their help, the outcome would have been far different,” according to Jayne Doust. May 21, Jayne attended her grandson’s lacrosse game at […]