What to do if your co-host passes out live on-air

Dave Ross will care for co-host Luke Burbank should he suffer an attack on-air. (KIRO Radio/file)

After a QVC host passed out on live TV Sunday, Ross and Burbank decided it was high time they develop a plan should such a thing happen when they’re live on the radio.

“What would we do on this show if you passed out or I passed out?” Luke Burbank asked co-host Dave Ross.

The male QVC co-host featured in the video where his female co-host passed out, continued his sales pitch for the item, a tablet computer for kids, after she apparently fell to the floor.

“The woman first starts by kind of leaning on and then sort of collapsing onto the guy on the set,” says Luke. “Presumably, he’s just lowering her down to the floor and continuing to talk about this tablet device.”

Dave says there’s no way the show needs to keep going and he would take life-saving action immediately.

“I would immediately start CPR. Then I would yell out for someone to call 911. Then we would get John Curley and he would administer some of his magic and we would save your life.”

Dave says “the radio show can go to hell.” Life-saving is first. He does say however, such an incident might just make for radio gold.

“What we probably would do. We’d leave the mics open so that people could listen to it live on the air,” says Dave.

By JAMIE GRISWOLD, MyNorthwest.com Editor