Maumee man saved by quick-thinking ProMedica doctors [Video]

MAUMEE, Ohio — “80% of people who have a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm don’t survive. The survival rate’s 20%.”

Those are the words of Dr. Todd Russell, a vascular surgeon with ProMedica Toledo Hospital’s Jobst Vascular Institute. But it’s a stat line that Maumee native Barrie Rhodes can say he’s defied the odds of.

The 73-year-old former marine and drill sergeant had emergency surgery to repair a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm on Friday, March 29.

Rhodes initially thought he was simply having bad back pain but as time went on, the pain worsened. That’s when he decided to get checked out at the ProMedica Toledo Hospital Emergency and Urgent Care in Maumee.

From there, doctors knew that Rhodes was in dire condition.

“I just remember them opening up my shirt and the doctors are doing an ultrasound on my chest,” Rhodes …