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Police resuscitate IU employee

Business school worker loses pulse, stops breathing Monday night

IU police officers saved an IU employee whose pulse and breathing had stopped Monday, said IU Police Department Lt. Jerry Minger in a press release.\nMinger said officers were dispatched to the west side of Wylie Hall at about 6:45 p.m. after Paul Doughman, a 53-year-old hourly employee for the Kelley School of Business, stopped breathing. Minger said Doughman also had no pulse.\nAccording to the press release, IUPD Officer Rebecca Lucas connected Doughman to an automated external defibrillator. Lucas and IUPD Officer Dan Keeler and Monroe County Reserve Deputy Jon Barefoot revived Doughman's pulse with one shock from the AED.\nMinger said that although Doughman's pulse had returned, he was still not breathing, so Barefoot performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation until Doughman could breathe on his own.\nBloomington Fire Rescue personnel then arrived, Minger said, and an ambulance transported him to the Bloomington Hospital Emergency Department.\n"At last report, they told us he was in the cardiac section of the hospital," Minger said.\nA spokeswoman for Bloomington Hospital said Tuesday afternoon the hospital could not comment on Doughman's condition.

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