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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It has been astir a period since a 13-year-old lad collapsed portion playing hoops astatine the YMCA successful Fort Lauderdale. Two mothers, who are a surgeon and a nurse, saved his life.
Dr. Ayisha Livingstone and Nadege Blanc were astatine the L.A. Lee YMCA Mizell Community Center to ticker their kids play connected July 16, and some rapidly jumped into action.
For a moment, Blanc, a Memorial Healthcare System nurse, feared David Dieurestil, who suffered a cardiac arrest, was dead.
“Right, earlier our eyes, David, helium went, helium left,” Blanc said.
Livingstone, a Broward Health surgeon, and Blanc performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation and utilized the assemblage center’s Automated External Defibrillator, a instrumentality that delivers a dose of electrical existent to the heart.
“I conscionable woke up and I was connected the ground,” David said.
Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue unit responded to the assemblage halfway and took David to the infirmary wherever some Livingstone and Blanc continued to cheque connected him.
“God bless them for what they did for maine and my family,” David said.
The YMCA, Broward Health, the Memorial Healthcare System, and the FLFR teamed up for an lawsuit connected Monday, truthful the 3 could rise consciousness astir the value of CPR and AED training.
“I americium truthful gladsome that helium is not a statistic,” Blanc said portion lasting connected stage.
During the ceremony, FLFR Chief Stephen W. Gollan presented David with a “rebirth” certificate dated July 16, the time helium survived the cardiac arrest. David said helium dreams of playing hoops adjacent summertime and professionally 1 day.
“Without them, my lad wouldn’t beryllium here, truthful I convey them truthful much” Michael Dieurestil, David’s father, said.
For much accusation astir CPR and AED grooming for the public, sojourn this American Red Cross page.
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