ROCHESTER, Minn. – A Mayo Clinic nurse recognized the signs of carbon monoxide poisoning in a girl at the LaQuinta Hotel pool swimming pool Saturday and began resuscitation, perhaps saving the girl’s life. Television station KTTC had reporters at the scene and sat nurse Cindy Clement down afterward with her partner, Troy Donahue, to recoint what happened. Donahue and Clement were at the hotel for his granddaughter’s first birthday party. “I went for a walk down to the pool and looked in and a couple of women were screaming,” Donahue said. “I looked and saw a child on the ground. People were running everywhere. I went and got my girlfriend.” Clement, a licensed Practical nurse at Mayo, saw the child she wasn’t breathing. Her lips were blue,.Clement: “I didn’t feel a pulse on her, so I started CPR. And she came back after less than a minute but she still wouldn’t wake up.” Clement said she thought the girl had been in the pool but found out later from police that the girl had been walking around and passed out. Four people, including the girl, were hospitalized with CO1 poisoning symptoms.
Poolside heroes. He saw girl in distress, summoned his girlfriend nurse. She revived girl whose breathing had stopped and whose lips had turned blue.