First Aid Corps

A young boy is pulled from a pool unconscious, but survives, thanks to training his father learned years ago.

Brady Davis the Saviour with Son

Brady Davis jumped into action, after his two-year-old son, Branson, fell into the family’s pool in Heltonville, in Lawrence County.

Looking at this active, energetic two-year-old, you’d never know Branson Davis was near death just days ago.

“He is a miracle. He is a miracle,” said his mother, Jenny Davis.

But in the Davis’ backyard, there’s a now-dismantled, yet clear reminder of a tragedy narrowly averted.

“It’s something you can’t imagine. It’s hard. I see it every time I close my eyes,” Jenny said.

She sees the sight of her son lifeless at the bottom of the family pool.

Last Sunday, Branson climbed over the pool’s filter, presumably going after a toy.

“I went to holler for him and he always answers and he just didn’t answer and something told me just look and then I found him at the bottom,” Jenny said.

Jenny screamed for her husband Brady, and dove in.

“When I heard her screaming like I never heard her scream before, I knew it was something,” Brady Davis said.

Brady says he didn’t hesitate. He came out of the house, grabbed Branson, put him on the deck and immediately started CPR.

“He didn’t have a pulse, wasn’t breathing. He was blue. I finally got him back breathing. Then the first responders got here. They told me, ‘just keep doing what you’re doing, Dad. Keep doing what you’re doing’. It was just reaction…nothing I want to go through again.”

Brady learned CPR while serving in the Air Force.

He kept his training up-to-date through his job at a local quarry.

While he thought he might have to use CPR on a co-worker, Brady never imagined it would save his son.

He now says every parent should get trained in CPR.

“It’s real important,” Brady said.

“Because he [Branson] wouldn’t be there today if he didn’t,” Jenny added.

After two days at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, Branson is back home, back to normal and doctors told his parents he has no permanent brain damage.

It’s all thanks to lifesaving skills, given from father to son.

“I’m glad I was there. Or I wouldn’t have my boy right now”

We will be reporting on lives saved around the world since our first documented life saved here in Singapore.

A man who collapsed on the Washington National Golf Course driving range In Auburn was saved by a staff member who grabbed a defibrillator and the man’s father who administered CPR.

The man started breathing after the automatic external defibrillator delivered one shock.

A Mountain View Fire and Rescue provided additional care until King County Medic One transported him to a hospital.

“Mountain View Fire and Rescue would like to thank the friends and family, Washington National Golf Course, including Rolly Leonard and King County Medic One with their help today with this event, and hopes for a speedy recovery for the man,” department spokesman Tim Perciful said in a statement.

We will be reporting on lives saved around the world since our first documented life saved here in Singapore.

Sometime on Saturday night, Jan. 24, at the Delbarton School basketball court in Morristown, N.J., hearts stopped.

Well, just one actually stopped, but many others skipped a beat at least. Poly Prep’s starting senior point guard and leader on both ends of the court, Stephen Lazzaro, suffered a sudden cardiac arrest during the opening quarter. “It was quite scary,” said assistant coach Glenn McCartney, who helped Lazzaro to the gym floor.

CPR, administered rapidly by Stephen’s dad and teammate Michael Kumar’s dad, Sampath Kumar M.D., both physicans, plus a defibrillator on the scene saved this young man’s life.

A Fund in the name of Stephen Lazzaro has been set up at SUNY Downstate for the purpose of raising monies for cardiovascular research to study valvular heart disease and arrhythmias.

Stephen has turned his attention from playing to helping the team by acting as a mentor to the younger players while helping Head Coach Bill McNally on the bench. He has been an inspiration to many while he rehabilitates from these recent events.

We will be reporting on lives saved around the world since our first documented life saved here in Singapore. 

Bill Sauer Saved

It all began in July. Bill Sauer had suffered a heart attack and his doctor sent him home with an AED, a portable defibrillator, just in case.

“About one o’clock in the morning I heard him struggling to breathe,” said Bill’s wife Judy. “I tried to wake him, he was unconscious.”

Judy’s son Matt grabbed the defibrillator and the machine talked them through every step.

“It took quite awhile for the ambulance to get there, but I got Bill back,” Judy said.

Sauer gets choked up when he thinks about what could have happened.

“It takes awhile to sink in when you live through that,” Sauer said.

Dr. Ed Arazoza, a cardiologist, at Rochester General Hospital is not only Bill’s doctor but also a friend. He says when he gave him the defibrillator, he didn’t really think Sauer would need it.

“A defibrillator provides an electric shock to restart the heat. If you have an electrical instability, it restores normal rhythm,” . Arazoza explained.

“’We believe defibrillators should be everywhere. We bought one for ourselves, my wife says it’s my lunch box. I think there should be lunch boxes everywhere,” he said.

We will be reporting on lives saved around the world since our first documented life saved here in Singapore.

During the basketball drill at a recreation centre in Cochrane, the young Rosenau dove for the ball and attempted to get up but his legs didn’t work.

“I crawled a few feet and then I collapsed,” he said.

When Lorne Rosenau, the boy’s dad, who’s also the coach, saw the immobile lad lying on the floor, he thought his son was just faking it. The dad’s effort to rouse the boy was futile. He noticed a cut on the boy’s chin, but didn’t see blood flowing from it and there was very little blood on the floor.

“That was the first red flag,” said the man, who teaches at Western Canadian high school.

Then, he made this ugly sound of breath.”

The boy’s skin was starting to turn blue when the dad checked for a pulse. There was none.

He began performing CPR on his son, while somebody else brought in an automated external defibrillator.

“You really have no emotion at the time,” says Lorne. “You just do it. I think the building around me could’ve burned down and I wouldn’t have known.”

“He didn’t have a heart beat for 26 minutes,” said the older Rosenau. Paramedics arrived and took over the resuscitation efforts.

“I did what it took. I just feel fortunate that I was there and I knew what to do,” he says. “Curtis and I have a closer bond now. Between him and me, we kind of know. It’s special.”

“You’ll never know when it may help save your own family member,” said the dad.