A Theta Chi fraternity cook lost consciousness Monday afternoon, requiring emergency assistance, an officer from the IU Police Department reported.\nA call to central dispatch at 4:13 p.m. reported that Teresa Arnold was not breathing and did not have a pulse, said IUPD Capt. Jerry Minger.\nMinger said four IUPD officers responded to the fraternity house, located at 1440 N. Jordan Ave., and began to perform CPR on Arnold, who was lying on the kitchen floor.\nWhen Arnold wasn’t revived, she was shocked twice with a defibrillator before Bloomington Fire Rescue and Bloomington Hospital Ambulance Service arrived to take over.\nAfter about 25 minutes, Arnold regained her pulse and was transported to Bloomington Hospital, Minger said.\n“Without the immediate intervention (of) Officers Wise, Teter and Henry equipped with the (defibrillator), the immediate outcome would most likely have been different,” Minger said in a news release.\nBefore the incident, Arnold had complained of a severe “hot flash,” Minger said.\nArnold is the wife of Bloomington firefighter Roger Arnold.
Theta Chi kitchen worker revived
Woman regains pulse after 25 minutes
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