Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) personnel, members of the UCLA and USC medical staffs, and ASICS LA Marathon representatives will join Santa Monica resident and 2014 Marathon runner Jode Lebeda as he is reunited today with firefighters, paramedics, doctors and nurses who cared for him after he collapsed during the race.
Jode was running the 2014 ASICS LA Marathon on March 9, when at Mile 20, he collapsed in cardiac arrest.
Marathon volunteers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC), the official medical provider of the ASICS LA Marathon, quickly reached 28-year-old Jode and began CPR, while LAFD EMTs and firefighter/paramedics stationed along the race course also arrived quickly to provide Advanced Life Support measures.
He was transported by LAFD ambulance to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center where he was admitted to the hospital’s Neurointensive Care Unit, and over the next seven days, made a remarkable recovery.
He has since returned to work and has resumed his normal daily activities.
