“LifeVest” saves heart attack victim

(WDIV) Paul Piasecki didn’t realize he was having a heart attack.

“I was feeling pain in my right shoulder, and I actually felt it probably more than a week before I decided to go to the hospital because I always heard that it’s the left shoulder, if you felt pain in, that was a heart attack,” he recalls.

When he did eventually go to the emergency room, doctors at Michigan’s Ascension Macomb-Oakland found Piasecki was in fact having a heart attack.

He spent three days in the hospital and was then released. But just a week later, things took another life-threatening turn.

“My son was visiting for my birthday,” says Piasecki. “And all of a sudden, I felt myself slipping away.”

Piasecki’s wife, Debbie, was in the kitchen.

“All of a sudden, I hear my son say, ‘Dad? Dad? Are you OK, Dad?'” says Debbie Piasecki.

Paul Piasecki wasn’t okay. His wife and son watched as he went into cardiac arrest.

They called 911, but they didn’t have to wait for help to arrive because Piasecki was wearing a medical device called a LifeVest.

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