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Incredible Medical Rescue Videos

saving lives when you're a medical professional or first responder makes sense but how about when you're an ordinary civilian we're about to watch some serious life- saving videos let's get started PE what was the what was the reaction what was the trigger she's had she's not allergic to anything that's known she's had some summon have you touched anything or have okay see the way that she's talking right away we have to know that her Airway is closing so you have to act quickly there is no use trying to figure out what this person is allergic to the only important thing is to recognize the ABC's of First Response and in this case the airway is being compromised so you have to act quickly with that epinephrine AKA an epinephrine auto injector like an epip pen that's it the tongue is swelling you got to make moves you have to act quickly this is like when I was on the plane in the pilot like do we have an hour and a half to go back to Canada or an hour to go to the Portugal Islands no we don't so we'll go half milligram of adrenaline sbol please uh eventually some hydrocortisone as well all right so they're also giving her some steroid here as well steroid reduces inflammation but the first thing you want to do is get that epinephrine on board that's what's going to open up the airway that's what's going to actually constrict the blood vessels to increase blood pressure cuz part of an anaphylactic attack is not just your throat closing it's blood pressure drastically dropping so Telly what you're having through that nebulizer is what we give to asmatic patients to open up the airway okay remember patients who are experiencing anaphylactic attack feel very uncomfortable cuz you can experience gastrointestinal distress vomiting low blood pressure and then when you get the the EpiPen you're still not out of the woods you're still very uncomfortable and your heart's raising you got a dose of adrenaline sorry sorry your tongue okay all right in a lot of situations like this as well it's very important to have a good line of communication with the patient because what they may be experiencing or thinking that they're experiencing is not what's they're actually experiencing I'll give you an example when I was on the plane after the first dose of epinephrine the gentleman who who was experiencing the antic attack told me he thinks it's coming back but after I uh directly observed his throat with my iPhone flashlight this is the tools I'm using there I actually saw that his throat was just getting very dry because I gave him a big dose of adrenaline which is one of the side effects so his throat wasn't actually closing up again so it's important to directly visualize these things as well as talk to the patient are you feeling any better a little bit little bit good Okay so we've done something wrong then see using humor to diffuse the situation here is really powerful he's not making her uh the target of the joke they're both together making light of the situation in order to decrease that stress anything you can do to take away that anxiety will help the patient doctors still don't know what caused her allergic reaction you know in a lot of lot of cases we don't know that's why allergy testing along with a thorough history is really important here there's even very unique situations where if you get a certain type of tick bite a lone star tick bite you could actually end up developing an allergy to red meat that you've never had in your life which is what happened on the gentleman in the airplane that I was uh fortunate enough to be on at the time to save his life 35-year-old mom Tila Levy turns away for just a moment 11-month-old Eton on the changing table on an elevated surface and in the presence of water like in a bath you do not leave your children unattended no matter how quick you think it is even with dogs I would put in with dogs as well the baby begins to roll every parents fear and then he tumbles over the edge out of nowhere his older brother 9-year-old Joseph catches him wow what a catch honestly they got to stop doing sports center top 10 for a week and just show this kid making a catch I just yelled mom cuz I saw the baby and I just ran and I caught him Yankees sign this did now I can't even carry him so I don't know how that happened and it can't even run that fast either that's super super human it goes without saying babies falling very dangerous cuz they're developing still their organs so very susceptible to injuries and drops remember uh baby's bones are also soft especially their skulls so their their brain is not as well protected uh as an adult skull okay we have a child drinking water drinking water drinking a lot of water choking anytime you see someone reach for their throat like that and is trying to talk but can't move air that's a sign that someone's choking in scenarios like this for a child of this age you would treat them just like an adult not an infant and you would start the he lick maneuver uh some agencies do uh talk about doing five back taps with the person bent over the arm and then start the H lick maneuver you're going to be squeezing as hard as you can and you're do that five times go back to the back blows until you free whatever the obstruction is don't do this blind finger sweeping thing because that can actually push the object further down instead what you want to do is try and visualize if you can see whatever it is that's out in the mouth and then pull it out see that's a child saying they're choking right there oh we got the himik maneuver perfect good execution wow he got it out wow Rock and bod sha were being typical 2-year-old twins scrambling up their dresser to explore but then suddenly it tips over pinning little Brock under its heavy weight you can see Brock struggling and screaming but bod jumps right into action he immediately tries to push the dresser but can't get it to move finally with a big lean he tries to push one more time and somehow manages the strength to move that large dresser and free his brother that's why with a lot of uh Furniture items like that you really should be securing them to the wall in fact a lot of them do say that you should secure them to the wall in their instructions and that doesn't just go for a Furniture like that but also for like heavy mirrors as well too Mom says as soon as she saw that video she bolted the dresser to the wall to make sure it won't happen again oh what is that this 5-year-old girl had her own scary encounter with a wild animal a raccoon latched onto her leg wouldn't let go oh raccoons problematic being mammals they can be exposed to to rabies and therefore transmit rabies I grabbed it by the Scruff of the neck it was growling it was snarling it's a raccoon get a lot of times we'll think that uh raccoon is rabbit when it's starting to come out during the day exhibiting uncharacteristic behaviors like going up to people because they usually don't do this they kind of run away more often out of an abundance of caution mom and daughter have gotten rabies shots if you've been exposed to rabies or even you think there's a possibility you've been exposed to rabies generally what we do is something called post exposure axis which means something like 15 minutes of washing the wound then getting the rabies vaccines on specific set days and then in definite confirmed cases and in severely endemic areas you want to be using immunoglobulins or monoclonal antibodies it's a family crisis that's unfolding in real time but the little guy's parents John and Jane kler quickly realize this is serious he was turning blue cyanosis or turning blue is one of the danger signs that not enough oxygen is is moving and with babies you want to act fairly quickly but at the same time stay calm and deliver those same back blows that we just talked about the back thrust but with a baby you want to uh hold them down so their head is lower than their body by doing this you're actually allowing gravity to help you free the obstruction and then you do the same back thrusts now if that fails then you do the opposite you flip them to the opposite side now on their back head is still below and then you're going to be doing the heck maneuver with them laying on your arm you don't want to do a full HCK maneuver on a child less than one year of age because you can cause damage to their developing organs Panic erupts 911 all right so again the mom is in a very stressful situation the goal here is to say you call 911 not someone because then everyone else assumes that someone is going to call 911 and no one ends up calling 911 major Hillard had a device in his car called a life V which he suctioned to little Gabriel's mouth after several plunges of the device a as soon as I did that last pool his eyes popped open and he started gasping for air Mom and Dad Embrace in relief so it's interesting this life vac and other devices like it have kind of been going viral on social media the dechoker is one that I saw as well the major organizations like uh the ones that do first aid have not sort of started recommending them because there hasn't been good quality rigorous trials to show that they're more effective than traditional back blows and the heick maneuver in situations like this the all the maage organizations are still saying use the traditional methods I'm curious when the government or some agency is actually going to put money in this to make sure that we can find out if these devices actually work because if they do we should have these devices at every restaurant in 2019 this friendly pickup hockey game suddenly turned when one of the players collapsed from a massive heart attack oh wow 9191 all right call 911 good first step you got to nominate someone a player from the opposing team then took charge as luck would have it he was an emergency room physician here yep the defibrillator is very important here the defibrillators we have in most of these scenarios are automatic defibrillators where you just attach them to the chest and uh they will automatically read the Rhythm and tell you if this is a shockable situation or not Shock advised charging stay clear of patient we administered that shock and administered a little bit more CPR for another minute and a half and he started breathing on his own that's spontaneous return of circulation that's really exciting I mean if you're going to have um a cardiac arrest having one around uh an ER physician is the person you want to be around the sad part about Cardiac Arrest is the majority of them happen outside of the hospital and as a result uh there's not enough people trained in CPR or know how to perform CPR this is why I'm working with the American Heart Association to get these kiosks put all across the US in airport science museums where you actually learn how to perform hands only CPR with me on the screen check this out it may have been the whole crew behind this nearly impossible mission back in 2009 but it was Jason Oglesby who dangled from a crane and pulled Patty Ralph M to safety her boat had capsized along the De Moine River her husband died she was saved you know it's very possible that you may be uh an individual who finds someone who's recently drowned and they're unconscious in those situations you want to start chest compressions right away it's ideal actually uh and a lot of agencies do advise to do two rescue breaths before starting the chest compressions in a drowning victim scenario remember in most cases you're actually not going to have that much water go into the lungs the layings can actually spasm preventing a lot of water from entering the lungs and the small amount that could have gone into the lungs can actually get absorbed into the bloodstream so it's really about getting that heart to pump and it's pumping artificially because you're physically pumping it and circulating the blood that's actually still potentially having some oxygen in it and obviously calling for help is the number one thing you do little Mason lindaman was playing in his driveway with Friends when the Pitbull escaped from a neighbor's home and attacked claing his jaw down on the boy's head that's so dangerous so much bleeding can happen so much disfigurement suddenly a hero comes to the rescue the teen who heard the boy screams runs right into the path of Danger watch as he deliberately diverts the pit bull's attention now the dog goes after him giving the six-year-old kid a chance to run home the hero neighbor is also attacked when he loses his sneaker and falls to the ground in a situation like this you got to roll up into a ball protect your vital organs remember if you get bitten in the kateed if you get uh bitten into the stomach that's where a lot of bleeding is going to happen but if you roll up into a ball and most importantly make Fists so that your fingers can't get ripped off you decrease the likelihood of very severe injury if you are witnessing someone do this the common thing that's taught is the wheelbarrow technique where you lift up the dog's back legs it's used more to break up dog fights between dogs not dogs attacking humans but that could be done as well making loud noises shooting water all these things are options just make sure you don't put yourself in danger and never put your hands or fingers in between two dogs that are fighting or a dog that's attacking someone else cuz what's going to happen is your fingers are going to get very very damaged and that's dangerous afterwards for a child like this you want to make sure that they're okay from a psychological perspective a circulatory perspective and that they're getting antibiotics tetanus and potentially rabies depending on what you know about this dog he's got a bruise under here still wow and he's got a small scratch there he also has Staples in the back of his head Staples are very common to be used in the scalp scalp has a lot of bleeding as well cuz it's highly vascular so folks get very afraid but usually that area heals quite well I'm glad you're okay Grant suffered bite injuries to his hand while fighting off the pitbull the dog was right on top of me so I tried to grab his throat and it bit me that's why you got to right away curl up into a ball or punches fingers closed cuz otherwise you will get bit The 28-year-old woman seen Friday in the surveillance video inside the lobby of the Delan Animal Hospital says after 2 days of being assaulted by her boyfriend 39-year-old Jeremy Floyd she convinced him to bring her dog to the vet then this note handed off to the vet staff saying her boyfriend was threatening her with a gun I slipped her the note and that's when I slid my glasses off to show her I had a bruised ittis so she would take me seriously first of all you have to give credit to the Survivor of this IP and I go past calling it domestic violence cuz it's really intimate partner violence we've sort of changed the way we refer to these things because domestic means you live in the home and that could be a parent a grandparent intimate partner is someone you could just go on a date with and violence doesn't just mean physical violence it could be verbal violence as well then she saw an officer through the window first a sigh of relief officer safely taking Floyd and his loaded handgun into custody the victim thankful the employees got her the help she needed these are terrible situations and so many factors go into them just even a patient sharing that with you is really powerful and there's evidence to show that thanking a patient for sharing that with with you goes a really long way the way that I've sort of been trained to think about this is an approach of empathy validation and then a assistance you want to be as empathetic as possible you want to be understanding as possible then validating that the patient doesn't deserve this that this isn't uh their fault because a lot of times they've not necessarily been brainwashed but been misled to believe that this is happening to them and it's their fault it's their problem and then finally offering assistance not forcing assistance because that can backfire for a whole host of reasons and as medical providers we're also trained that if somehow the abuser is in the office in the exam room Etc it's best not to confront them and let the patient guide the situation unless there's imminent danger of course in that case you're calling local authorities it's really all about making sure the patient has resources and safety and a plan of action if they feel their life is truly in danger and if you yourself are a victim of ipv uh I have links and resources down below to get yourself help check out this video where patient actually filed a complain against me I think it's worth watching cuz it's a good learning experience and as always stay happy and healthy [Music]

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