After a fulfilling day surfing at San Onofre State Beach, Bob Kiefer suffered a sudden heart attack as he got into the driver’s seat of his car. Longtime surfer friends stopped at his car just at the right moment and flagged down a film crew that was filming nearby for help. A paramedic with the film crew radioed lifeguards, who called in Camp Pendleton emergency responders to take Kiefer to Mission Hospital. Once at the hospital, doctors restored blood flow to Kiefer’s heart, implanting a medical tech device called an Impella CP heart pump that allowed his heart to rest and recover.
“It was literally one miracle after another,” Kiefer, 75, said. “If one thing had been pulled out of that chain of events, it would have been over for me.”
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