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Cintas Kicks Off Heart Health Month with TJ McMahon’s Life-Saving Story
The fast actions of a First Aid & Safety Sales Representative, using CPR and an AED, helped save a life during a child’s baseball practice.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nThe fast actions of a First Aid & Safety Sales Representative, using CPR and an AED, helped save a life during a child’s baseball practice.\n\n CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nIn recognition of National Heart Health Month, Cintas Corporation (Nasdaq: CTAS) celebrates the immediate and courageous actions taken by one of its First Aid & Safety Sales Representative TJ McMahon, based in Charlotte, N.C., that helped save a life.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230202005005/en/As National Heart Month kicks off, learn how Cintas First Aid & Safety Sales Representative TJ McMahon (right) used CPR and an AED he kept in his truck to save the life of his son's baseball coach, Rem Crawford (left) in August 2022 in Fort Mill, S.C. Full story: https://cint.as/4040o3R (Photo: Business Wire)\nSudden cardiac arrest presents a serious and escalating health challenge. More than 350,000 people suffer out-of-hospital cardiac events each year1. McMahon’s training enabled him to be ready™ for the unexpected and reinforced CPR and AEDs’ critical function in saving lives.\n\n“What we do matters,” McMahon said. “To be involved directly, to see the outcome – and then what comes from the outcome – 100% solidifies what I do for a living.”\n\n>> WATCH THE STORY ON YOUTUBE: https://cint.as/4040o3R\n\nAs McMahon watched his son’s summer baseball practice unfold on Aug. 27, 2022, in Fort Mill, S.C., angling his chair along the shaded third-base line for relief from the heat, he had no idea he was about to save a man’s life.\n\nBatting practice had just begun when McMahon noticed his son’s coach, Rem Crawford, face-down on the ground.\n\nMcMahon raced to Crawford’s side. He was not breathing. He had no pulse.\n\n“I immediately knew I had some form of relief inside of my truck,” McMahon said.\n\nBecause of his sales role in Cintas’ First Aid & Safety division, McMahon travels everywhere with an Automated External Defibrillator (AED). The device analyzes a person’s heartbeat and issues an electrical shock when detecting an uncoordinated rhythm, and Cintas has helped save more than 600 lives with AEDs provided across the country.\n\nThe next few minutes were an adrenaline-charged blur. McMahon asked someone to call 911, sent the players into a nearby parking lot away from the scene, bit ...