A group of students at Louisiana State University saved a professor who went into cardiac arrest while swimming.
LSU professor, James Oxley went into sudden cardiac arrest while swimming laps in a pool at the LSU University Recreation building on Friday, July 5.
“I was less than halfway through my regular swim when I stopped swimming. I don’t really know why I stopped,” James Oxley said. “Evidently I slipped under the water and came back up and then fell across the lane ropes. John Foster, another swimmer, as well as one other person who we don’t know yet, dragged me out.”
A group of students who work in the recreation building jumped into action and were able to revive Oxley before Baton Rouge EMS transported him to a local hospital.
“If they had not acted quickly, ran where they needed to run, acted professionally when they needed to act professionally and saved all of that time, then I just wouldn’t be here talking coherently to you,” Oxley said.
