by A manager at a planet fitness in Philadelphia, the Planet Fitness in Philadelphia, has supposedly refused to use good Samaritans for the defibrillator of the fitness studio for a man who has suffered a heart attack outside, it says in a lawsuit.
The 46 -year -old Guy Harris died on January 22nd, after leaving near a planetary fitness in Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania, near a planetary detention.
As a married father of two children, Harris had driven his 11-year-old son after school when he started to experience symptoms of a heart attack, and asked him to overtake himself, the legal complaint said. He parked a short distance from the entrance to the planet fitness, where he was a member, it said.
Guy Harris.
Harris’ son got out of the car, called in 911 and advocated the help of passers -by, the lawsuit, which was first reported by NBC News. The legal registration states that a viewer who worked in the medical field began on Harris CPR, while someone else was supposed to finish the planet fitness to ask the planet fitness to ask for the automated external defibrillator of the gym, a portable device that delivers an electrical shock to restore the heartbeat of a person.
“Two Planet Fitness customers returned to the club and asked the AED, which pointed out that a man died outside,” the lawsuit said. “Although the Planet Fitness Club Manager knew about the situation of life or death, it refused.”
Planet Fitness Inc., which has its headquarters in New Hampshire, and Keystone NFP Clifton LLC, the franchisee operator in Clifton Heights, calls the lawsuit as a defendant. Neither answered comments on the inquiries from NBC News.
Harris’ Mrs. Taniqua Morene-Harris rejected a comment. A lawyer said for her that the couple had been married for almost 21 years and Harris died the day before the age of 12.
“They are all just shocked by this whole event and how it happened,” said Elizabeth Crawford, partner of the law firm KLINE & Specter, PC. “Aeds save life – but only if they are used.”
The lawsuit does not show why the Planet Fitness Manager, who is not identified or named as a defendant, has supposedly refused to allow the use of the AED. The lawsuit said the audience continued to try to revive Harris with CPR, but he was later declared dead that day after taking an ambulance to the hospital.
The lawsuit accuses Planet Fitness and its franchisee operator of negligence, which led to Harris’ “extreme pain and suffering and early death”. It is looking for a legal proceedings and not specified damage.
Planet Fitness has more than 2,700 clubs worldwide, according to his website.
Crawford called what happened at the Clifton Heights location, a “deliberate decision to withhold life -saving measures. She said, the fact that Harris’ heart event outside the gym was not an excuse for refusing access to an AED.
“It is reasonable to assume that someone could have a heart attack outside the facility as much as possible in the facility,” she said.
This article was originally published on nbcnews.com
