Sen. LaFleur performs CPR on Senate official during lunch break on Monday

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Eric LaFleur took on a new role as life saver on Monday after he and a lunch companion administered CPR to a Senate sergeant-at-arms who collapsed outside of the Louisiana Senator’s office.
LaFleur told The Advocate, “I was leaving the office to have lunch and the man was on the floor and he wasn’t responsive and he wasn’t breathing.”
The Advocate reported that LaFleur and his lunch companion then performed CPR, which involved three cycles of compressions and two rounds of air, until the man, identified as Gerald Sparacino, began breathing again.
As far as where LaFleur’s training of CPR came from, the senator told The Advocate that “CPR has been a topic at the dinner table,” due to the fact that his wife is a physician. LaFleur also told the media that he “had training as a volunteer fireman in Ville Platte, but that was a long, long time ago.”
According to the Baton Rouge news source, 70-something year old Sparacino was held overnight for observations at a Baton Rouge hospital.