Amy Spears, 44, a math teacher at Louis Armstrong Middle School in Queens, saw the girl collapse and begin convulsing outside of her classroom. The teen then stopped breathing.
“I started doing CPR immediately and called people to get help and call 911,” Spears told the New York Daily News. “Another teacher grabbed the machine.”
Spears, who has been a teacher for 21 years, gave the child one shock with a defibrillator before paramedics arrived.
“I never thought in a million years I would have to do this or want to do it,” Spears told the Daily News. “I’m so glad I was trained and I was able to hold it together enough to do what I did. Everyone worked together.”
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