An Allegheny County teen has filed a lawsuit against the Panera restaurant chain, claiming that its caffeinated Charged Lemonade sent him into a cardiac arrest.
In the suit, filed in in federal court in Philadelphia on Monday, Luke Adams, 18, said he ordered a large Mango Yuzu Citrus Charged Lemonade and a chicken sandwich at a Panera restaurant on March 9, according to TribLive.
Adams then went to see a movie with his friends around 7 p.m. While sitting in the theater, a friend noticed he was making strange sounds and realized he was going into cardiac arrest.
Luckily, two nurses and a cardiologist were in the audience and began performing CPR. After a defibrillator was used to shock him, his heart began pumping again, although it was irregular, TribLive said.
He was taken to a hospital, where he went into seizures and had to be intubated with a ventilator.
“He was about …