A UNT Dallas law professor is crediting his students with helping save his life after suffering a cardiac emergency during class.
Michael Maslanka, 73, was teaching an evening law class on Oct. 8 when the university said he went into cardiac arrest. Student Matthew Melton, a former Navy SEAL, stepped in and began CPR after Maslanka stopped breathing and had no pulse.
“I just saw blackness,” Maslanka told UNT Dallas from his hospital bed. “She said, ‘We have to shock you.’ And the next thing I heard was ‘Clear!'”…