YELLOWKNIFE - As the final seconds were counted down on Sunday, a shout went up.

"I got a pulse!" Ken Bridges exclaimed, after being part of a team that gave Annie CPR for 48 hours straight.

Bridges and four other men got together in the Centre Square Mall over the weekend to do CPR on a dummy, nicknamed Annie, for two days.

Ken Bridges was part of the 48-hour CPR-athon held at the Centre Square Mall over the weekend. He started off the CPR-athon on Friday morning and took the last shift on Sunday morning at 9 a.m. - Jessica Klinkenberg/NNSL photo

Beginning Friday morning and wrapping up Sunday, they had originally hoped to match the world record.

But with the new world record having recently been set at 155.5 hours, the men decided to stick to meeting the previous world record.

"We've convinced ourselves that it's a Canadian record, and if it's not a Canadian record, it's at least a Northwest Territories record," Bridges said.

The men were tired and sore after doing CPR for so long. Bridges said his hands were swollen from doing so many chest compressions.

The five men performed a total of 259,000 compressions on Annie's chest over the weekend, and gave her 17,280 ventilations (or breaths).

"All of us have a pretty extensive first aid background," said Jim Martin with the Community Emergency Response Team NWT on Friday.

Martin was one of the people that came up with the idea.

The participants came from the Community Emergency Response Team, St. John's Ambulance and the Coast Guard.

Bridges said the participants caught little naps here and there, but were awake for most of the time. For every half hour spent working on the dummy, they then got an hour of rest.

When asked what kept them awake, Bridges pointed to a stack of CDs and DVDs.

Living for two days straight in the confines of a mall is an experience some people dream of, but Bridges wouldn't recommend it.

"You get to know what a fish feels like," he said.

The weekend saw members of the general public coming in to learn CPR, as well as make donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Some people brought them snacks. The men also received some unique donations.

"We had a massage therapist come in," Bridges said.

They raised at least $1,342, though they still had a few more donations to count.

"We estimate $2,000," said Martin.

Once everything was packed up, the men headed home Sunday morning for a well-deserved rest from CPR and to get some sleep.

However one of the volunteers, Patrick Gauthier, was back doing CPR on Monday, as he had to teach military first aid.