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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 5:34 PM Day care workers save baby's life By Janet Conner-Knox | Times Staff Writer The folks at Hattie Daniels Day Care Center are saying they witnessed a miracle. One of their littlest students could have died, but a team of workers were prepared and kept a level head through the crisis. Earlier this month, 14-month old Shantonio Ingram began choking while he was eating his lunch. "One of the teachers noticed he was getting anxious," said Judy Evans, a worker at the day care. "We are always in arms reach of our children. So she picked him up and noticed he was choking." Evans said immediately the teacher, Patricia Richardson, began CPR while another person ran to call 911. Shantonio stopped breathing, Evans said, but the school team was working together. Evans said Yvonne Baines, another Hattie Daniels worker, began giving vocal help to Richardson giving CPR, while another worker got the rest of the children out of the room. "When something like this is happening, you get nervous, but you need to stay focused," Evans said. "Her voice (Baines') stayed calm. She encouraged and reminded us of what we were doing." Despite this effort, Shantonio became unconscious.
Evans said she kept giving CPR until she heard Baines say that the child was breathing again. She said she was giving the thrusts and didn't realize he was breathing again. "I was so happy, I hugged him," Evans said. Shantonio was taken in the ambulance right away where EMS continued to look after him. Evans rode in the ambulance with Shantonio. "At one point he started crying, and he was hitting one of the rescue workers," Evans said. "Normally, we teach the children not to hit, and we see what is wrong right away if they cry. But this time I was happy to hear that he was crying and glad to know he was hitting." Shantonio's mother, Felicia Dunn, and grandmother Ruby Dunn, were waiting at Wilson Medical Center when the ambulance got there with him. "I was so worried because my mother told me what happened, and I got to the hospital before my baby did," said Felicia Dunn. "I was so scared because I didn't know how long he was without oxygen." When Dunn saw her baby in the emergency room, he looked at her and smiled, and she picked him up right away and cried. Dunn said she thanked God and began thanking everyone for taking care of her baby. "God knows just how much you can take," Dunn said. "Just two days later, my father had a heart attack and died. I don't think I could have taken all of that. I am grateful that my baby is alive." Mayor Bruce Rose visited Hattie Daniels to tell the workers they did a great job last week. Libby Privette, Red Cross health and safety director, said everybody should know CPR because every minute counts when someone's life is at stake. "Only four to six minutes with out oxygen causes brain damage," Privette said. "Knowing what to do can save a life. If it takes five minutes for the ambulance to get there -- you can see how one minutes helps." Privette said that every minutes without help a person chances of surviving decreases by 10 percent. "You should know that you are the vital link between that person's survival until the professionals come to take over." Privette hopes that more people will come and learn CPR. The staff at Hattie Daniels got their training from the American Red Cross's Wilson-Greene teacher, Sherreiah Smith. Red Cross have CPR classes to help infants, children and adults. She recommends learning all of the classes. "You never know what can happen," Privette said. "You might have to save a life anywhere." janet@wilsontimes.com | 265-7847 |
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CPR said...
You need to read up on your CPR because you do NOT give two rescue breaths unless you see the object and remove it. You do not do CPR, you just give compressions. I dont know who taught you or who certified you as an instructor but you obviously have been out of the loop for sometime. To "hmmm..." I'm glad someone else caught onto this as well, very disturbing but glad the child is safe and well.
Friday, May 29, 2009 at 1:53 PM
To hmmm... said...You need to read up on your CPR because you do NOT give two rescue breaths unless you see the object and remove it. You do not do CPR, you just give compressions. I dont know who taught you or who certified you as an instructor but you obviously have been out of the loop for sometime. To "hmmm..." I'm glad someone else caught onto this as well, very disturbing but glad the child is safe and well.
Friday, May 29, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Yes if someone is choking and is unconscious you do CPR you do 30 compression and give two rescue breathes looking in the mouth between each breath to check for the obstruction. If someone is choking they are NOT breathing. I am a certified CPR Instructor and I would urge you to attend a CPR class. CPR has really changed over the last few years!
Friday, May 29, 2009 at 10:54 AM
I understand the CPR when the child becomes unconscious, but why would you give CPR as soon as you see him choking...all I am wondering is why it took this long for anyone to know he was choking? It is rare to become unconscious if it is caught early.
Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 8:24 AM
So if someone is choking, you do CPR, which consists of 30 compressions and 2 rescue breaths? youre going to give rescue breaths to someone who is breathing? NO, so youre not giving CPR, your giving chest compressions
Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 8:22 AM
The story isn't poorly written you need to take a CPR Class... you no longer do abdominal thrusts on an unconcscious choking person you do CPR!
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 1:36 PM
