Yeah, it works.

16-Year-Old Brings Little Brother Back To Life

by Kim Gebbia

PUTNAM COUNTY, Tenn. - A Putnam County three-year-old nearly drowned in his backyard pool. When his grandmother didn't know what to do, his teenage brother stepped in to save his life.

16-year-old Jeffrey Hall said he never thought he would remember what to do in an emergency and never thought that emergency would involve his little brother in his own backyard.

On Tuesday, Skyler disappeared from sight in their backyard pool when his grandmother, Karen Hall made a phone call inside the house. She walked outside and saw his life jacket on the cement and feared the worst.

"My eyes went directly and I saw his body laying at the bottom of the pool and I dived in," she said.

She pulled the three-year-old from the water, and admitted she didn't know what to do next.

"Just to have that baby in my arms, lifeless. To me he was gone and I didn't know what to do I felt helpless," said Hall.

But Skyler's brother, 16-year-old Jeffrey Hall, didn't feel helpless.

"I was very nervous and scared when I saw his body lifeless like that but I had to stay calm and think that I could save his life I could," said Hall.

He remembered the CPR lessons he learned at Cookeville High School, the lessons he thought he'd never have to use.

"I did five reps of the pushing and two breaths and he started coughing up and then I heard a sigh and it was the biggest smile on my face just happened," said Hall.

"When I saw him at Cookeville Hospital, when they had that baby I grabbed him and said Jeffrey thank you so much thank you so much for saving my baby," Hall said.

Skyler is almost recovered and eager to go home. Jeffrey said this toddler is a living lesson to all adults and teens that CPR saves lives; he just never thought it would be him saving his little brother's.

"If I wasn't there we would be going to funeral he would be gone," said Hall.

Jeffrey said he is organizing a CPR class for everyone on his street since so many of his neighbors in Cookeville have pools.

A detective from the Putnam County Sheriff's Department said Skyler is proof that those two hour classes are well worth the time in Cookeville High Schools.

Imagine what the little girl's mom was experiencing. You don't ever want to be in that spot. Get Trained!

San Jose: Teacher recounts resuscitating girl who nearly drowned in pool

By Mark Gomez mgomez@mercurynews.com
Posted: 07/28/2011 11:30:34 AM PDT
Updated: 07/28/2011 01:16:26 PM PDT

It's been a few years since Lynbrook High School teacher Jeff Bale has undergone CPR training. Wednesday night, the 29-year-old social studies teacher relied on that training to resuscitate a 6-year-old girl who moments earlier had been pulled out of the deepest part of a swimming pool.

"I was certainly nervous," Bale said. "When it's a real person, it's different than a test dummy."

Bale is one of a group of people who sprang into action Thursday night after a 40-year-old father and his 6-year-old daughter were found at the bottom of the 8-¿1/2-foot pool at the Regency Park townhome complex, off Miller Avenue near Vallco Shopping Mall.

The man and girl were pulled out of the pool by a family friend whose identity has not yet been released by the San Jose Fire Department. Fire officials have credited the family friend with saving the lives of the dad and daughter, who were both out of the hospital by early Thursday afternoon.

As of this morning, the father has been released from the hospital and the little girl was doing well but still hospitalized for observation, according to San Jose Fire Capt. Mary Gutierrez.

Gutierrez said the man who pulled out the father and daughter is declining all requests for interviews.
"He's humble and is not comfortable talking to the press," Gutierrez said. "He's happy that his friends are out of the hospital and are safe and sound."

The father and daughter are also declining interview requests.

Sometime around 9 p.m. Wednesday night, Linda Bale was home in her kitchen, which overlooks the swimming pool area, when she heard a cry for help. Her first thought was that kids were playing around. But then Bale saw the a woman -- the girl's mother -- screaming for help. Bale called out for her son Jeff.

As Linda Bale dialed 911, her son jumped over a metal fence surrounding the pool area and ran to the girl, who was lying on the concrete, unconscious and not breathing. He also saw the family friend trying to pull out the girl's father from the deepest part of the pool.

"It was pretty clear she wasn't breathing," Jeff Bale said. "Her mom was already trying to do some impromptu CPR. She kept yelling, 'I don't know how to do CPR.' "

Bale resuscitated the girl after about a dozen compressions. She coughed up some water and started making noises, Bale said. Then the girl started crying.

San Jose firefighters say the girl was sitting atop her father's shoulders as he stood in the shallow end of the pool at about 8:55 p.m. The mother and other friends and neighbors in the complex sat some 25 feet away in a hot tub, facing away from the pool.
Then the mother and friends heard an eerie quiet in the pool. The mother and a family friend got out of the hot tub and ran over to the pool to discover two bodies the bottom of the pool, according to fire department officials.

The friend immediately jumped into the water and pulled both the unconscious girl and her father from the pool. Other people in the area had revived the man by giving him CPR, firefighters said.

"The man was in shock," Jeff Bale said. "We got towels and tried to get him warm. He had a very glassy look."
Jeff Bale deflected credit for his role in saving the girl, saying the family friend who dove into the water deserves the credit, as well as the first-responders who arrived to help.

"This was a community effort," said Bale, adding that the incident has "encouraged me to get a refresher course," in CPR training.
Staff writer Mike Rosenberg contributed to this report. Contact Mark Gomez at 408-920-5869.

If you had been the bystander, would that child still be alive? It doesn't take long to learn what to do.

Quick action of babysitter may have saved child in pool

A toddler who nearly drowned in a backyard pool this afternoon on Raspberry Patch Drive in Greece is recovering tonight at Strong Memorial Hospital.

According to Greece Police, the quick action of an adult babysitter who performed CPR may have saved the child’s life.

Around noon, police and first responders from North Greece Fire Department and Greece Volunteer Ambulance were called to 185 Raspberry Patch Drive for a report of a child found non-responsive in a pool, according to police.

A 2-year-old child had apparently exited the residence and entered the above-ground pool via an attached deck.

While emergency crews were enroute, a babysitter at the home removed the child from the pool and performed CPR, which revived the child.

Police did not release the names of the child or babysitter.

According to police, at last check with the hospital, the child “was reported to be doing well.”

Teen buried in sand dies and is brought back.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- A California teenager was hospitalized after a sand tunnel she was digging collapsed on her.

Anjelica Marroquin was digging the tunnel at Doran Beach with her brother and nephew when it collapsed, burying the 17-year-old from her head to her knees.

The girl was trapped for nearly two minutes before family members managed to free her.

"They pulled her out, she was blue, her heartbeat was really, really light," beachgoer Anissa Barajas told San Francisco's KTVU-TV.

A bystander revived her using CPR and Marroquin was taken to a local hospital, where she was recently released. She is expected to fully recover.

"I'm so grateful I got my daughter back," said her mother, Shannon Jefferies.

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I need your help, please.

Yesterday I heard it again: "I'm not going to take a CPR class, because I don't want the responsibility of whether a person lives or dies."

I've not been able to convert even one of the handful of people from whom I've heard that mangled thought. I've tried "For starters, that cardiac arrest victim is already dead and is most likely going to stay dead, if all you do is call 911. If you call 911 and then start pumping on his chest, his odds of getting out of the hospital with major brain functions intact go way up. Taking a CPR course doesn't place you in a position where you are responsible for whether that person lives or dies. It's really the other way around: NOT taking the CPR course raises the probability that the person you see arrest will stay dead. You have a one-in-seven chance of seeing at least one cardiac arrest in your lifetime, and when you do, the victim is most likely going to be a family member or friend."

It hasn't worked.

Can you suggest a different approach that I can try?

Thanks,

Bob Trenkamp
BobT@SLICC.org

What we do know for sure is that immediate CPR and prompt defibrillation change the odds of survival significantly.

Posted: Jul 20, 2011 4:42 PM
Updated: Jul 20, 2011 4:49 PM
Mike Paluska - email



ACWORTH, GA (CBS ATLANTA) -
Angie Durham said her words literally saved her husband's life after he suffered a massive heart attack.

It was Memorial Day, Alan Durham said he had just finished exercising and was sitting on his front swing. All of a sudden he had a heart attack. By the time Angie called 911 and paramedics loaded Alan into the ambulance he was in full cardiac arrest.

"He didn't have a pulse for about 20 minutes," said Angie.

Paramedics rushed Alan to Kennestone Hospital where doctors continued to work on Alan, but he was unresponsive.

The Durham's are high school sweethearts. They met in 10th grade and they've been together ever since. Angie said she thought she was losing her husband, her life, her soul mate.

"I walked in and they were shocking him, they were doing CPR, everything," said Angie. "It didn't even look like him. His eyes were not the same, it did not look like my husband at all and I could tell he was gone. There was no heartbeat, he was not breathing," Angie said.

That's when Angie said he doctor did something unusual, that she believes, ended up saving her husband's life.

"He wanted me to be there so I could talk to him, and tell him goodbye," said Angie. "The doctor told me to stand by his head and I did. I yelled that I loved him, and he couldn't leave me now and I couldn't live without him."

Little did Angie know that at that moment as she was walking out of the room, Alan took a breath and his heart started beating.

"When you talk about and you think about it, I was basically dead and I came back. It is amazing," said Alan. "I am still trying to figure out the mystery of how and why. I don't know why God brought me back. But I am still here it was God's grace. There is something I have to do," said Alan.

Alan does not like all the publicity but hopes his story will spur others to go and get tested for heart disease. Prior to his near fatal heart attack, Alan said he had no signs of trouble. His father does have a history of heart disease, but Alan said he didn't think it would strike him. He is urging everyone to get checked out.

Maybe this need not have happened...

Whether a person survives a cardiac arrest hinges upon the presenting cardiac rhythm and the quality of bystander CPR.

The presenting rhythm frequently depends upon the promptness of assessment .

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A 16-year-old from Toronto has died while playing basketball in the gym at a high school in Aspen, Colorado.

Quinn Issiah Everring was participating in the Aspen Basketball Academy on Monday when he collapsed.

Police and and emergency crews were called and a bystander tried to revive him using CPR but their efforts failed.

Mark Moore, a family friend, said Tuesday the teen was excited about the camp.

"This was the first time that he actually went away," said Moore. "It was his mom's friend that invited him to come for a week, so he left on Saturday to do a full Monday to Friday basketball camp."

Everring had just finished grade 10 at Northern Secondary. He loved basketball and football and he played the saxophone.

He was also his mother's only child. The two, according to Moore, were inseparable.

"I refer to them as almost a brother and sister team, the way they moved. Wherever he was, she was," he said.

The Aspen Daily News says the official cause of death will be released by the Pitkin County Coroner's Office following the completion of an autopsy.