ProCPR Blog

Joshua Duggar, one of the 19 children of Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar, called 911 as he and his brother John rescued a six-year-old girl who was injured in a car accident last week.

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This is really entertaining, ridiculous and something that you don’t hear all too often.  Here’s the story:

The police got an emergency call around 8:43 am on Sunday, that a twenty-five year old male was unresponsive.  They arrived at his home and began performing CPR on him.  As they were trying to revive him, they noticed an illegal, and loaded, .357 magnum handgun sitting out on his bed, as well as bags of marijuana scattered throughout the room.

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Steve Allison is a man that owes his life to the life preserving technique of CPR, but prior to June of last year he wouldn’t have believed it was possible.

He kept active, riding his bike 12 miles each day from a bus stop to his job, to prepare for his third Seattle-to-Portland bike ride.  Last June, however, the unthinkable occurred.  He got to work, got changed into his work clothes, walked into the office and the next thing that happened, which he doesn’t remember much of: he did a face-plant into the counter.

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In a story that confirms the importance of learning CPR, a father is hopeful to raise awareness about the need to know CPR since saving the life of his daughter.  He is also hoping to warn parents about the danger of leaving a child in a bathtub, unattended.

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Wow, how could I see this story and NOT write a little bit about it.  Have you heard of anything quite like this before in your life?  I know for a fact that I haven’t.  I mean, the boy was only 9 years old, and he’s doing fine!

I’ll let the story itself do the talking:

Jordan Taylor was buckled up, snug and secure, in the back seat of his mom’s car when a dump truck ran a stop sign and slammed into the family car.  The force of the crash was so violent Jordan’s head became severed from his neck although his spinal cord miraculously remained intact.  His chance of surviving this orthopedic decapitation was grim, no more than a 2% chance of living through the ordeal.  He made it, though, and his mother says he’s planning to go back to school after the winter holidays.

Stacey Perez, Jordan’s mom, describes her initial reaction as uncontrollable screaming but she’s elated today to report her son’s full recovery, just three months after the accident.  Equally proud of his recovery is his team of medical specialists at the Cooks’ Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, where pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Richard Roberts led the way.

Roberts said all the connective tissue joining the head to the neck was destroyed in the accident.  The surgical team used a metal plate and titanium rods to stabilize Jordan’s head and today he wears a neck brace.

The trauma was so catastrophic doctors became immediately aware of the extent of the injury once an MRI scan and radiography were performed.  The injury was so heartbreaking, though, that Jordan’s mom, who suffered significant injuries herself in the accident, was not told the full extent of her son’s medical situation until about a week after the accident occurred.

-via MedHeadlines

We spent a lot of time creating the latest episode of iRescueRadio, during which we discuss a number of different studies, including:

The Effects of Too Much TV on the very young.

A High School Basketball Player that had a sudden cardiac arrest in the middle of a game.

Technology and it’s effect on how the brain works.

The dangers of Melamine in Baby Formula.

And a CPR Rescue story!

Listen to it at iRescueRadio or Subscribe with iTunes!

Here is a case of CPR in action, working to save at least one life, if not three.  It’s a story that I wish never had to happen, but when it does, and it works out, it is phenomenal.

The next act of God was the fact that the mom was stepping out of the hallway and about to get in the car. I yelled to her that I had training and could help. She paused long enough to look at me and told the dad to wait.

I came to the passenger side of the car and took the baby from the dad. I checked her airway and heard her barely squeaking air out. I turned her over, gave her a couple of back blows and checked again. She was breathing full breaths. Nothing came out of her mouth, so I have no idea why she was only squeaking air.

I leaned down to check her airway again, and the little munchkin tried to push my head away. I knew at that point she was at least breathing and had a good pulse. I picked her up and told the dad to park the car, while his wife used my cell to call 911.

Read the whole story at Fiesty Charlie! I couldn’t find contact information for “Charlie” but we’d love to get her on an episode of iRescueRadio to talk about this, if she’s interested.

Ernest McPherson, who had received CPR training a couple of weeks ago,  was watching his 2-year-old daughter and 7-month-old son play in the bath tub with the water running and the drain stopper not in place.

The phone rang, and he went to answer it, at which time the drain stopper somehow fell into the drain allowing the tub to fill up.

McPherson returned after five minutes, finding the tub full and his son floating face down in the water, not breathing.

He promptly pulled the boy out of the tub and gave him CPR, getting him revived before EMS could arrive.  The boy was taken to Manate Memorial for further treatment.

-via Herald Tribune

Here is another example of the importance of learning CPR. We never know when these skills will be required, and when the need for it arises, we must be ready.

A 13-month-old boy stumbled into a five-gallon bucket of water, and nearly drown.  The boy’s mother was in the shower, but had left the bucket out.  It contained a mixture of water and fabric softener that she was going to use to clean clothes.

The mother had taken a quick, 5-minute shower, after which she found her son, headfirst in the bucket, not breathing.  She called 911 as relatives performed CPR until medics arrived.

The boy is now getting treatment at Children’s Hospital in Seattle, where he is expected to make a full recovery.

At ProCPR we have Infant Rescue Breathing and Infant CPR videos available for everyone, among others. The full CPR Training Video Library is free for all.

-via WenatcheeWorld

In an effort to help residents of the Gulf Coast recover from the effect of Hurricane Ike, we took some time to assemble some resources for you to use to track the progress of the storm, and to read the latest reports.

Maps

• IbisEye Hurricane Tracker using Google Maps
• Hurricane Information Center (with mapped evacuation routes)
• Atlantic Ocean – Hurricane Path Tracking & Storm Status Information

Resources

• HurricaneWiki.org

• Texas
  • Texas State Hurricane Center
  • Texas Department of Emergency Management
  • Texas State
  • Texas Evacuation
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) – Hurricane Ike

Read the latest reports on Google News and if you’ve got Google Earth, you can get a Hurricane Tracker for it.

Free CPR, First Aid and Bloodborne Training Videos
If you’re volunteering to help out with disaster relief, please take advantage of our video training libraries to refresh, or to better familiarize yourself with the skills that you’ll need to save lives.

• CPR and First Aid Training Videos by ProFirstAid.com
• Bloodborne Pathogens Training Videos by ProBloodborne.com