Vermont State Trooper plunges into freezing waters to save 8-year-old: video
Body camera footage captures the moment the trooper arrived to the scene and dove into the icy winter pond to save the child.
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A hero deserves her own post…..
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Someone else would be retrieving the throw bag.
I’d secure the gun, go to the cruiser, put the heat on high and crawl under the dash.
I’d secure the gun, go to the cruiser, put the heat on high and crawl under the dash.
But with children there is an almost miraculous survival potential when rewarming is done correctly (i.e. ECMO even if clinically dead) not seen in adults. 100% worth the risk.
Abstract
In the paediatric population, submersion injury with drowning or near-drowning represents a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. This study reviews retrospectively our own experiences and the literature on the use of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) to rewarm paediatric victims of cold water submersion who suffer severe hypothermia (<28 °C) and cardiac arrest (asystole or ventricular fibrillation). In addition to three children treated at our institution, nine other victims were found in the literature. In this cohort of 12 children aged between 2 and 12 years, there was a tendency to better outcome with lower core temperature at the beginning of extracorporeal circulation (mean temperature in nine survivors, 20 °C; in three non-survivors, 25.5 °C). The lowest temperature survived was 16 °C. Neither base excess, pH nor serum potassium levels were reliable prognostic factors. The lowest base excess in a survivor was −36.5 mmol/l, the lowest pH 6.29. We consider CPB as the method of choice for resuscitation and rewarming of children with severe accidental hypothermia and cardiac arrest (asystole or ventricular fibrillation). Compared with adults, children, especially smaller ones, require special consideration with regard to intravenous cannulation as drainage can be inadequate using femoral–femoral cannulation. In hypothermic children we advocate, therefore, emergency median sternotomy. Until more information regarding prognostic factors are available, children who are severely hypothermic and clinically dead after submersion in cold water—even if for an unknown length of time—should receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and be transported without delay to a facility with capabilities for CPB instituted via a median sternotomy.
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Thanks for posting that, I saw it earlier and didnt post because os so many damn cop haters.Vermont State Trooper plunges into freezing waters to save 8-year-old: video
Body camera footage captures the moment the trooper arrived to the scene and dove into the icy winter pond to save the child.www.livenowfox.com
Officer has a bigger pair than all of them in Uvalde.
Mammalian reflex.
We are still lizards at the deepest parts of the amygdala.
A kid is never dead until they are warm and dead.
That’s a heart warming story of an actual heroic act. Thanks for posting.
That is just an every winter occurrence in us in MN. Likely happens hundreds of times a season. As kids we would either self-rescue and/or help each other out. Just part of playing outside in winter on lakes and ponds. Have to know how to read the ice and plan to react if it is sketchy. Avoid being on the ice if dangerous. Only a big deal in this incident as it was a female trooper. Girl-power.
If she was at Uvalde ALL the kids would have survived.
Well done!
And just causal the entire time.
Well done!
And just causal the entire time.
Man shut the fuck up with that garbage. Any time a child almost drowns fucking around on thin ice is a big deal in my book. They don't always make it. Trooper did her job, you're the fuckwit making it about girl power. Nobody else in this thread cares about the troopers genitalia...well not having seen them anyway. Point being quit fucking up a heart warming story.
You're full of shit. You start threads on every fucking thing that hits your Google news feed. Self aggrandizing is not very becoming.
Well, I'm just getting my coffee so I havent taken a shit this morning so thats partially true, but as to the rest of it.
There's three groups of people. Those that freeze, those that run away and those that take action. Doesn't matter if they wear a badge or gender.
Shirley you could do better than that. A guy that pretends for a living? Well, maybe not
I guess we all look at things through our own lenses. I looked at it and thought "why wouldn't someone do that?" That is a myopic way of looking at something though, isn't it.
Well yes, but only because as ThatYankee so succinctly put it,
If you are a person that takes action, you’ll likely think like you did. There are many more that freeze into inaction or just take a video of it to post on Utube.
You missed the part about the thread being started- typically- 3 days after the first thread in the pit about the topic…
Saw this in action at Sig Sauer.
Before the class starts people are assigned emergency response duties - one guy calls 911, two guys are to take cars to the gate to escort EMS in, someone with first responder training is the first aid guy.
Class a year ago, we are firing and the instructors makes an “ugh” sound and face plants.
I thought he took a round.
Everyone runs over and stands around him.
Doctor, real doctor, rolls him to recovery. I ask who is making the call? Dude reaches in his pocket and gets out his phone. I ask who is getting to the gate? That’s when the two dudes assigned that task decided to do their thing.
Even assigned a duty people won’t act as the whole scenario seems unreal.
Instructor has existing heart issues, dehydration and meds had him go low BP and pass out. Doc maintained his vitals I get his lower extremities elevated He came out of it soon after.
Right now some of the local statists gov thugs are pulling a snowmobile pilot out of the lake near my father, enforcing their authority of no swimming during winter. Bunch of facists.
I've had it.
I've had it.
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