Officers save a chocking baby by performing the kiss of life
- 4 years ago
Two police officers saved a choking 17-day-old baby girl on the side of a road by performing the kiss of life.
The video shows the officers performing the Heimlich manoeuvre, by placing the heel of their hand in the middle of her back, on the road side in the Planalto Verde area of Sao Roque, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The officers then turn the baby on its back and make small thrusts with their fingers below her breastbone, as her worried mother watches on in the car.
Footage then shows each officer give mouth-to-mouth by blowing a steady flow of air which causes her tiny chest to rise.
The men were alerted after the baby's desperate grandfather found the two military officers, identified only as Mikelon and Emerson, patrolling the area.
The grandfather, who has not been named, told the officers his granddaughter, named Rafaela Vitoria who was just 17 days old, had choked, suffered a respiratory arrest and was unconscious.
Corporal Emerson said: 'We were parked in our car when a vehicle appeared at high speed. We saw the mother with the child on her lap and the girl was purple.'
While they continued to resuscitate her she was taken to a medical unit for further assessment.
However they later learned that her lungs had filled with mucus from an infection and were blocked more than once during the incident.
Emerson said: 'She had three respiratory arrests and we managed to revive her.
'En route, she had two more arrests. We continued doing the manoeuvre until we arrived at the medical centre.'
From there, doctors helped the officers keep the baby alive while they took her to the nearest hospital.
Emerson said: 'She got to the hospital crying a bit and breathing. The doctors performed the suction of catarrh from her nose and mouth.
The choking was because of the catarrh from her throat.'
He added: 'It is very rewarding. The moment when a baby is unconscious in our arms and then comes back to life two or three times. The emotional part is when you hear the child crying. It is the cry of rebirth.'
The police confirmed the baby 'is well and back in her mother's lap'.
The video shows the officers performing the Heimlich manoeuvre, by placing the heel of their hand in the middle of her back, on the road side in the Planalto Verde area of Sao Roque, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The officers then turn the baby on its back and make small thrusts with their fingers below her breastbone, as her worried mother watches on in the car.
Footage then shows each officer give mouth-to-mouth by blowing a steady flow of air which causes her tiny chest to rise.
The men were alerted after the baby's desperate grandfather found the two military officers, identified only as Mikelon and Emerson, patrolling the area.
The grandfather, who has not been named, told the officers his granddaughter, named Rafaela Vitoria who was just 17 days old, had choked, suffered a respiratory arrest and was unconscious.
Corporal Emerson said: 'We were parked in our car when a vehicle appeared at high speed. We saw the mother with the child on her lap and the girl was purple.'
While they continued to resuscitate her she was taken to a medical unit for further assessment.
However they later learned that her lungs had filled with mucus from an infection and were blocked more than once during the incident.
Emerson said: 'She had three respiratory arrests and we managed to revive her.
'En route, she had two more arrests. We continued doing the manoeuvre until we arrived at the medical centre.'
From there, doctors helped the officers keep the baby alive while they took her to the nearest hospital.
Emerson said: 'She got to the hospital crying a bit and breathing. The doctors performed the suction of catarrh from her nose and mouth.
The choking was because of the catarrh from her throat.'
He added: 'It is very rewarding. The moment when a baby is unconscious in our arms and then comes back to life two or three times. The emotional part is when you hear the child crying. It is the cry of rebirth.'
The police confirmed the baby 'is well and back in her mother's lap'.