A man in Arizona saved a woman’s life last week using a CPR technique he learned from the popular television show “The Office.”
While working outside an auto body shop in Tucson, Cross Scott noticed an unconscious woman in a van outside the shop. The woman was slumped over her steering wheel and was not breathing.
The doors to the van were locked, so Cross used a rock to break a window and open the door.
A woman who stopped to help reclined the woman’s seat, and Scott climbed on top of her to begin giving her chest compressions in a bid to get her to start breathing again. He said he remembered an episode of “The Office” in which a character sings the Bee Gees’ “Stayin’ Alive” to time the compressions.
That character, played by Steve Carell, was singing “Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive” as he performed CPR.
“I’ve never prepared myself for CPR in my life,” Scott said, according to Tucson.com. “I had no idea what I was doing.”
The woman started breathing again after a minute, and paramedics soon arrived to get her to a hospital.
“All I could think about was picturing her face,” Cross said. “I had to make sure she was OK.”
