Overview
- The professor, Michael Maslanka, collapsed during a class last month and students called 911, guided responders into the building, and provided immediate aid.
- Matthew Melton, a law student and Navy SEAL veteran, performed repeated rounds of CPR until paramedics arrived and regained a response.
- Paramedics transported Maslanka to a nearby Baylor emergency room where clinicians stabilized him with emergency care, and several students later visited him in hospital.
- Maslanka and multiple news outlets credit the students’ calm, divided efforts — medical action, emergency coordination, and prayer — with saving his life.
- The episode has prompted renewed public emphasis on CPR training and preparedness while noting detailed clinical claims about ventricular tachycardia and an 11‑day hospital stay appear in a single, less‑corroborated report.