CPR
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Our co-hosts reflect on a recent emergency call to a Buffalo Wild Wings where a cleaning agent inhalant injured nine and killed one employee
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He quickly called 911 when his little sister began choking on a grape; a passerby performed CPR and the 3-year-old has made a full recovery
He heard the crash behind his house, waded into the dark water and saved two kids and their father while calling for help from neighbors
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A husband called 911 when his wife went into labor early and he saw a foot; the dispatcher walked him through the delivery moments before medics arrived and used CPR to revive the newborn
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There were eight paramedics, two trauma doctors, and an assortment of firefighters and EMTs swarming her home that day
Pat Machin, who worked as a medic for 24 years, “dropped everything” and ran across the road to start CPR
The dispatcher gave the baby’s mother step-by-step directions on how to get the baby to start breathing again
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The traffic worker was working near an accident site when he collapsed suffering from a heart attack; nearby EMTs shocked him and did CPR and he miraculously woke up
Schoolmates had knocked him off the live wire, and his principal and EMTs performed CPR
After about one minute of rescue breaths, the blue child began to slowly breathe on his own
First responders arrived quickly after the man collapsed to administer CPR and save him
The 13-year-old used a piece of wood to knock his friend off a live wire as he was being shocked, and their school principal was then able to perform CPR
In the recording the owner drags her from the cage and tells the dispatcher he can’t perform CPR because she’s beyond hope
Staff called 911 when a customer went into cardiac arrest, and Marci Martellucci sprang into action until the ambulance arrived
He suffered from extreme dairy allergies; nurses arrived and performed CPR but was pronounced dead at a hospital later
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The 60-year-old man was given CPR after rescuers plucked him from the ocean; he later died at a local hospital
Employees immediately began CPR on the 3 year-old, and medics took over when they arrived
While giving a lecture to her class, her heart stopped beating and she collapsed onto her desk; students called 911 and brought a defibrillator into the classroom
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