United Ambulance has accepted a LifePak Cardiac Defibrillator from Bridgton Hospital and Central Maine Medical Center. From left are Paul Fillebrown, EMT/P supervisor, United Ambulance; John Carlson, president and chief executive officer, Bridgton Hospital; United Ambulance Executive Director Paul Gosselin; and Peter E. Chalke, president and chief executive officer at Central Maine Medical Center.

United Ambulance receives defibrillator

BRIDGTON – Central Maine Medical Center and Bridgton Hospital recently presented United Ambulance with a LifePak 12 Cardiac Defibrillator with extended capabilities that will enable the ambulance to provide immediate cardiac care for a patient being transported to a hospital with a heart attack.

Paul Gosselin, executive director of United Ambulance, and Paul Fillebrown, EMT/P supervisor at the United Ambulance, Bridgton, accepted the equipment.

“We are pleased to present United Ambulance with a LifePak 12 cardiac defibrillator,” said Peter E. Chalke, president and chief executive officer at CMMC. John Carlson, Bridgton Hospital president and chief executive officer, said, “Seconds count when someone is having a heart attack. We are hopeful that a life may be saved someday because this new equipment is available during an acute cardiac event.”

It was stressed that if that anyone suspects symptoms are a heart attack, they should call 911. Symptoms include chest discomfort, pain spreading to the arm, shoulders or neck, nausea, sweating, faintness, indigestion or gas-like pain, sense of impending doom, dizziness.