7-year-old boy saved his brother with first aid knowledge

A 7-year-old boy managed to save his 3-year-old cousin at the age of 3 with first aid skills.

It happened during lunch. The baby choked, and the child’s grandfather and aunt panicked and did not know how to act. It was at this time that Walter Neto Mendez Silva Vaz Barreto said he knew what to do.

“When I saw that everyone was desperately trying to help David, I went there and told my mom that I knew a special technique,” ​​says Walter. “And in three tries, I was able to get him to spit out the hindrance.”

The boy’s mother explains that he choked on a pie that contained a small piece of fishbone.

According to the family, the method was learned by Walter in a SAMU (Emergency and Acute Service) children’s project known as “Samuziño”. It teaches children how to behave in non-standard situations.

The project covers children aged 7 to 12 and teaches first aid skills such as resuscitation, suffocation prevention, heart attack, heart attack, and stroke recognition. Project volunteer Samu Tania Rodriguez Furtado, 35, a nurse who works as an instructor in Samuziño, explains that children remember information more easily and show keen interest.

The technique the boy used is called the Heimlich maneuver and is used to remove the foreign body in cases of suffocation. Since the baby had partial suffocation, he did not lose consciousness. And the fact that it was a pie, and not a pure fishbone, played a role. Indeed, in the case of a bone, the maneuver would not have helped.

In this maneuver, the rescuer must quickly recognize that it is choking, stand behind the victim and apply pressure with both hands on the diaphragm. To do this, you need to count five fingers above the navel, clench your hand into a fist and start pressing on the place where the diaphragm is located. It should be pushed from the bottom up until the person spits out what prevents him from breathing.

It is difficult to overestimate the importance of knowing first aid techniques because not a single ambulance will have time to arrive to help, others should do it.

After this incident, many children wanted to learn how to give first aid, and the organization happily promised to teach them all.

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