By EMS1 Staff
NEW YORK — EMS providers rushed to help a girl in cardiac arrest after she was brought to the station during an early morning shift change.
NY Daily News reported that paramedic Jaron Wyche had just finished a job when the banging started.
“We ran to the door, me and EMT Ryan Powers and his partner Natalie Apollon, and Ryan opened it up to find an older man there, saying ‘She can’t breathe, she can’t breathe,’” Wyche said. “We started asking him, ‘Who can’t breathe?’ and ‘Where is she?’ The older man’s son ran up, he was carrying his daughter. He was distraught, and he just pushed her in my arms.”
Wyche said the girl was not breathing, and the three jumped into action and began their lifesaving efforts. The girl’s pulse came back within two minutes, but she was still not breathing on her own.
The girl was put in an ambulance, and by the time they got to the hospital she was trying to sit up.
“I’ve done plenty of pediatric cardiac arrests, this was my partner’s first. But it doesn’t matter how many you do, it’s really intense. We kept it together and the whole job was maybe seven minutes long, but it felt like an eternity because it’s a child,” paramedic Joshua Jimenez said.
The crew visited the girl in the hospital the next day, and she was fully recovered.
“We are very pleased that this little girl and her family walked into an EMS station where she was able to receive immediate and critical care and we are very grateful that our EMTs and paramedics were able to save her life,” EMS Local 2507 president Oren Barzilay said.
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