(Radio Iowa) – An Iowa State Patrol Trooper used an automatic external defibrillator or A-E-D to revive a rider on RAGBRAI — the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Rider Across Iowa. A spokesman for the Iowa State patrol told The Des Moines Register bystanders were administering C-P-R to a man from California who’d collapsed Sunday and a trooper guiding traffic at a nearby intersection was called to the scene. The trooper took the A-E-D from his patrol car, administered a shock with the A-E-D and the RAGBRAI rider’s heart started beating again.

The man was taken by ambulance to the Orange City hospital, then transferred by air ambulance to a hospital in Sioux City. This is the second time in three years a trooper has used the A-E-D in a patrol cruiser to revive a RAGBRAI rider.