Bodycam video captures Mo. officer providing pediatric CPR

"Once I got her flipped over on her back and I started doing the thrusts I started feeling her heart," said Kansas City Officer Richard DuChaine

By Leila Merrill
FireRescue1/EMS1 Staff

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Officer Richard DuChaine is being praised for his quick actions that may have saved a baby’s life.

He and his partner responded Thursday to a call about a 1-month-old who was not breathing, according to the Kansas City Police.

DuChaine performed chest compressions and then back thrusts on the baby girl before EMS providers arrived. She started to breathe again.

Officer Richard DuChaine saved a baby’s life!

Thursday, DuChaine and his partner, Officer Charles Owen, responded to a call for a 1-month-old girl who wasn’t breathing. Arriving before EMS, they sprinted into the house, where the father handed the baby over to DuChaine.

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He turned the baby on her side, and he and his partner checked the infant for obstructions.

"And then once I got her flipped over on her back and I started doing the thrusts I started feeling her heart and then after she finally started coming to I could feel her heart racing," DuChaine said.

The child was hospitalized, and the officers visited her there.

Here is the bodycam video (referenced earlier) of Officer Richard DuChaine saving the life of a 1-month-old girl.

DuChaine was with his partner, Officer Charles Owen, Thursday when they were the first to arrive to a call for a baby who wasn’t breathing.

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