Nicole Collins: Athletic trainer's timely CPR saves Geneva High School student's life at homecoming dance
GENEVA, ILLINOIS: An athletic trainer's timely intervention saved a Geneva High School senior's life after she collapsed during her homecoming dance two weeks ago. Nicole Collins helped Bridget Archbold to return to life by giving her CPR at the right time.
“I just felt dizzy and I felt a sort of pressure on my neck,” Archbold told WGNTV. Once she fainted two hours into the dance, the principal and dean helped her move to the side, before she started having a seizure. However, Collins, who was trained in CPR since the age of 10, quickly sprung into action.
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She said, “When this occurred, I was actually in front of the gym in the hallway chaperoning. I just happened to hear the music stop.” She added, “After about a minute, I went to monitor her vitals. I couldn’t find a pulse.”
Seeing the student's condition, Collins started compressions. Meanwhile, a staff member brought a defibrillator as the principal cleared the gym. “I was more focused on her, trying to do what I’ve been trained to do, you see a kid in an emergency. I was locked in to do what needed to be done," said the trainer. Archbold was better after two rounds of CPR. She said later, “I started crying and asked, ‘Did I ruin the dance?'”
Doctors are still doing tests on her to recognize the reason behind the seizure. She was taken to Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital and moved out of the hospital the same night. “I’m just glad she was well trained and she sprung into action to save me because I really could have died that night,” Archbold said. Collins also claimed, “Seeing her here makes my heart happy, I’m just glad I was able to help her.”
Earlier in August, a nine-year-old Queensland girl saved her mother’s life by performing CPR as an emergency dispatcher delivered instructions over the phone. Charli Johnson’s heart-rending emergency call with dispatcher Anne Barklimore revealed how the girl kept calm despite her mom Sharon collapsing after becoming unconscious at their home in Helensvale on the northern Gold Coast.
The call also revealed Charli was able to remember her address and phone number, before being calm enough to perform the life-saving feat. "My mum woke up at 6.30 this morning," Charli told Barklimore. "She was throwing up. I had to make my own lunch and everything." "She was asleep all day. She just got up, opened the door, she kneeled to the ground and just fainted", Charli said in audio released by the Queensland Ambulance Service on Friday, August 19.
