CPR Student Saves Teacher Having a Heart Attack

David Knowles was leading a class on CPR when he suddenly felt weak and dizzy. 

As the retired UK nurse lay on the floor, he realized he had little time to tell his students what to do before he passed out, the BBC reports. The group "had asked for a demonstration," Knowles says, and they thought they were getting one. 

When they learned this was no drill, "the whole group was up on its feet, looking like they weren't doing very well, either," Knowles tells Inside Edition. As the 77-year-old, who took his own pulse during the incident, started to "get a bit foggy," he instructed student Karol Chew to call an ambulance and take out his false teeth. Knowles knew he was having a heart attack and had to stay awake but, he adds, "I couldn't really get stirred up about it."

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