CPR…..Man needs CPR at OP health club

CPR…..Man needs CPR at OP health club. The son of a man whose life was saved at an Overland Park health club Friday got a chance to say a personal thank-you Monday to the police officer who did it.

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“It’s a real privilege. I’m thrilled to meet him,” Jeff Francis said.

Officer Travis Brady of the Overland Park Police Department was off duty and working out at the club when Ken Francis, 71, had a heart attack at the pool.

“I started to walk up to him and I noticed he was twitching,” Brady said.

Brady pulled Ken Francis out of the pool. He yelled for club staff members to get help and started CPR.

“He was becoming blue. He possibly coded,” Brady said. “(He was) having a heart attack. I couldn’t get a heart rate or a pulse.”

The club had an automatic emergency defibrillator, which Brady used to keep Francis alive as emergency medical technicians rushed in.

“The hospital staff still says they don’t know what made his heart stop beating,” Jeff Francis said. “We don’t know what to say or how to repay our gratitude to him.”

Brady said it’s just what police officers do and that he was at the right place at the right time. He also wanted to credit the health club’s staff for its help.