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...have to get him covered up," Werton told her friend. All they could find were a sheet and beach towels. Werton took over CPR compressions from Vance as Diana blew air into Jessie's mouth. Werton counted to five, then pushed five times, then counted again as Diana blew. His chest rose, so they knew they were getting air into...
...well have declared Jessie dead. But Smith and paramedic Chris Warnock had kept the chopper's engines running for a "scoop and run" and with Jessie's uncle, they carried the boy to the chopper. "He was kind of like a rag doll," Smith says. Inside, the medics continued CPR and inserted a breathing tube. They had been on the ground less than 6 min. As they closed the door, they asked about the arm. Smith says, "No one knew where...
...time the chopper landed at the hospital, Jessie had gone without blood--and thus oxygen--for 30 min. The medics put him on a gurney and took him down in an elevator four floors to Trauma Room 9, continuing CPR all the way. As doctors, nurses, aides and technicians hunched over the lifeless boy, nurse Dawn Colbert inserted an IV into his arm and began a rapid infusion of O-negative blood, the universal-donor type. Within 15 minutes, Colbert pumped nearly 1.5 liters of warmed blood into Jessie, about half the normal volume for an 80-lb. boy. Jessie...
...friends called the police, who came and performed CPR on Johnson until the Boston paramedics arrived...
...Robertson: One of the most important things to take away from this is that death from cardiac arrest is not inevitable. If we had more people reacting quickly we could prevent these deaths. We need to educate people about calling 911, performing CPR, or, as a recent AHA program has encouraged, using portable defibrillators...