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i was sitting with her reading this book i stood up i said hey i'm gonna take the dog out put my book down i took two steps towards my den door and just Have you ever had someone jump out and scare you when your heart skips that beat? Imagine that feeling, but you can't recover from it.

I stopped dead in my tracks, and all of a sudden, even though I collapsed in about a second and a half, I experienced what's called time distortion.

Weird shit happens when you go through critical incidents, right? Time slows down, and when your adrenaline's pumping, you get tunnel vision, auditory exclusion, and for me, everything just slowed way down.

All of a sudden, I can't breathe.

All of a sudden, I can feel...

My face is almost pulsating, right? I'm trying to do how we're trained to do is do combat breathing.

What was the actual problem in law enforcement education that you noticed? And what was your kind of steps of how you actually went about trying to solve that problem?

What is that? Explain that.

So essentially, when you go into cardiac arrest, right, when your heart is in that quivering motion and there is no blood being pumped, we have got to keep your brain alive until we can shock you out of it, right? By doing compression only, you are significantly increasing the chances of survival just by pushing hard, pushing fast, 100 to 120 beats per minute, 2.4 inches, allowing for full recoil.

By just doing that, you are quadrupling their chances of survival.

Traditionally, they used to teach 30 to 2, where you do 30 compressions, head tilt, chin lift, give them two breaths, and go over and do compressions.

Well, what they found in the study at University of Arizona, when you were doing compressions, on average, it would take about 15 to 18 compressions to build up enough pressure for blood flow to go from your heart to your brain.

When you stop, within half a second, you instantaneously lose all of that pressure.

So by the time you go over, do your head tilt, chin lift, try to get your seal, push air, which is only 17% oxygen, forcing that into their lungs, it causes other complications too, which I'll get to in a second.

How did law enforcement affect your family?

So as a result of this incident, you work your way back, you get back on the department, but then something happens and that leads us to your nonprofit.

Yeah, you know, it, you go through this weird mental health shift after you go through something like this, you know? I buried five friends in the line of duty.

You know, you get that kinda, that survivor's guilt that, you know, why am I here and they're not here type thing.

And, uh, what they don't tell you is that there's a cardiac depression and there's all these waves of emotion that hit you as you're kinda going through your recovery.

As you get this implanted device and they give you these medications that also have side effects, there's just these weird mental health waves you start going through, and I was really trying to find my purpose and how am I gonna earn my second chance? How am I gonna give back? What am I gonna do with this? Like, I got back to being an FTO and I was training this rookie and I quickly realized how underutilized our, our officers are.

We get very poor equipment.

Most of the training for medical is designed for civilians.

What, what's on the horizon for you?