Kerry Osborne can't remember the last basketball game he played at First Baptist Church Grapevine.
"All I remember is going into the game and slapping someone's hand," he said. "They say I got a ball scored, but I don't remember any of that."
Travis Coates can't forget the game, which they played in May.
"I heard a loud thud and thought Kerry had just tripped and hit his head," Coates said. "He wasn't breathing and he didn't have a pulse."
Coates, an emergency room physician at Arlington Memorial Hospital, used the automated external defibrillator the church had installed a month earlier to restore the rhythm of Osborne's heart. The device delivers an electric shock to the heart.
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Coates treats heart attack patients regularly in the ER, but treating a friend was different, he said.
Fortunately, he said, the AED instructions were easy to ...
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