U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess was doing more than voting on bills this week in Washington. The Republican from Lewisville helped save a man's life.

Burgess, who is also an OB/GYN, was on the third floor of the Rayburn House Office Building Wednesday when he saw a number of staffers running toward an elevator.

There he found U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., with an unconscious man. Murphy, who is a psychologist, found the man when he tried to enter the elevator.

Lewisville Congressman Michael Burgess, who is also a medical doctor, helped saved the life of a man who was found unconscious in an elevator earlier this week a the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. (2014 File Photo / Denton Record-Chronicls)

He pulled the man into the hallway and called for his staffers to run to get an automatic external defibrillator.

Burgess and Murphy got the defibrillator placed on the man, and his heart rate returned.

"Tim did chest compressions, and I helped his airway, and actually, he started with some gasping respirations after that," Burgess told KXAS-TV (NBC5).

They found a pulse and kept the man's airway open until paramedics arrived 10 minutes later. Burgess said it felt like much longer.

"You are worried because you don't know what else is going to happen," he added.

The man's identity has not been released. Capitol Police told KXAS-TV that the man was breathing with a pulse when he was rushed to the hospital.

Burgess is back in Texas hoping that the man is recovering.

"I pray that this individual does OK. I pray for his family. He left there in pretty bad shape," Burgess said.

He added that a similar incident happened about 10 years ago, but there were no defibrillators at the Capitol. The physicians in Congress lobbied to have the AEDs installed for instances like this.

This is not Burgess' first act of heroism this year. In February, he called 911 to save a neighbor's house from burning down.

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