Craig Feinman, DPT, ACLS, is a cardiac physical therapy master clinician who works with Mount Sinai Heart. He says his life was forever changed recently as he answered the call to save a life—actually two lives.
Craig was in the hallway on 7C at The Mount Sinai Hospital, fully dressed in PPE, when he was called in to assist with CPR for a pregnant COVID-19 patient who was in cardiac arrest in a neighboring room.
Craig assisted by immediately providing chest compressions until he was relieved by the others on the code team. The patient survived, as did her baby, born at 30 weeks in an emergency C-section. Craig says this experience is “humbling” and credits a multidisciplinary team of professionals for the successful outcome.
The Department of Rehabilitation and Performance Medicine is very proud to have Craig, and all of our other physical, occupational, and speech therapists, on the front lines, helping patients during this crisis.
Submitted by Melissa Gunning, MBA, PT, Director of Rehabilitation Department Rehabilitation and Human Performance, The Mount Sinai Hospital