Representative Ray Barnes of Arizona had "angels hovering over him," according to Speaker Jim Weiers, when he collapsed on the floor of the House in early June and was revived by colleagues, a lobbyist and a 17-year-old page.Representative Ray Barnes of Arizona had "angels hovering over him," according to Speaker Jim Weiers, when he collapsed on the floor of the House in early June and was revived by colleagues, a lobbyist and a 17-year-old page. Barnes was not breathing and had no pulse when Ashley Mazur, a page with a nursing assistant certification, Representative Ted Carpenter, a retired Phoenix firefighter, and Representative Cheryl Chase, a registered nurse, began mouth to mouth resuscitation resuscitation /re·sus·ci·ta·tion/ (-sus?i-ta´shun) restoration to life of one apparently dead. cardiopulmonary resuscitation and compressions on him. A lobbyist who is a former paramedic par·a·med·ic n. A person who is trained to give emergency medical treatment or assist medical professionals. paramedic and Representative Colette Rosati, also a nurse, joined in the effort to save Barnes' life. The group shocked his heart with a defibrillator defibrillator, device that delivers an electrical shock to the heart in order to stop certain forms of rapid heart rhythm disturbances (arrhythmias). The shock changes a fibrillation to an organized rhythm or changes a very rapid and ineffective cardiac rhythm to a . Senator Robert Cannell, a doctor who was instrumental in placing defibrillators in both chambers, also arrived on the scene and cleared Barnes' airway. Barnes underwent triple bypass surgery triple bypass surgery Coronary arterial bypass graft, see there several days later. In March, Senator Marilyn Jarrett died from an aneurysm aneurysm (ăn`y  rĭzəm), localized dilatation of a blood vessel, particularly an artery, or the heart. suffered in her office.
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