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• Teen saved her friend's life through CPR
  Mar 19, 2021 -- Norwood was driving her three friends home when someone hit her car from the left and they crashed in someone's yard and hit a tree. Norwood climbed out of the window. Two of her also got out of the car unharmed. 16-year-old A'zarria Simmons was sitting unresponsive in the car as her head hit the backseat window due to the collision. Norwood pulled her out of the window, checked her pulse, and started performing CPR on her. After two rescue breaths and 30 compressions Simmons got her consciousness back. Paramedics rushed her to the hospital where she received stitches on her forehead.

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• Teen saves friend’s life one day after earning CPR certification
  Mar 04, 2021 -- Torri’ell Norwood, 16, is in her 11th grade when she and three others were in a car crash on February 20 in St. Petersburg. After the impact, Norwood rushed to the end of the street when she realized that her best friend, Azaira Simmons, 16, was nowhere to be found. Without a second thought, Norwood runs back to the car and pulled her friend, checked her pulse, but there wasn’t one. That’s when her CPR instincts kicked in. She’d earned her CPR certificate less than 24 hours earlier. After thirty compressions and two breaths later, Simmons regained her consciousness.

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• 911 CPR instructions saved toddler's life
  Dec 27, 2019 -- At 3 pm on Christmas Day, a call to 911 came in from a mother who said her one-year-old son fell on the pool and was not responding. The mother said a neighbor was attempting CPR but did not know how. The 911 dispatcher gave the neighbor instructions to pinch the boy's nose, cover the boy's mouth with the neighbor's mouth then blow air into the boy's lungs. Shortly. the boy regained consciousness. Firefighters arrived on the scene and took care of the boy then later brought him to the Arnold Palmer hospital. The boy was later declared out of danger.

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• Boy saved by CPR after his pace maker stopped working
  Oct 19, 2019 -- M.J. Crumity was playing dodgeball in the gym when he suddenly collapsed and went into cardiac arrest. The coach called The school's resource officer, Joey Knight for help. He reached the gym and found an unresponsive boy on the floor. He promptly started CPR. Annie Dyke the school's nurse applied the AED while Knight kept performing compressions. After some time the boy became responsive and was taken to the hospital.

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• Do not resuscitate tattoo on an unconscious patient
  Nov 30, 2017 -- A team of physicians were faced with a very strange dilemma when a patient with a "do not resuscitate" tattoo arrived to their emergency room. After several discussions, the doctors decided to not follow on the patient's wishes invoking the principle of avoiding an irreversible path in the face of uncertainty. They put the patient on several medications and antibiotics but after further review from the ethics committee, it was decided to honor the tattoo and after a DNR was obtained and further approval was requested, the patient was left untreated. The health of the patient worsened through the night and he died, no cardiopulmonary resuscitation was provided.

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• Rookie officer saves toddler
  Sep 15, 2016 -- Off-duty Police Officer Brian Beaulieu responded to a call for a drowning. He was out, but not far from the location he had heard on the police scanner. When he arrived the 2-year-old girl had been removed from the pool. She was unresponsive and Officer Beaulieu began CPR on her. When paramedics arrived he did not wait for them to come around to where he was with the child. He picked her up and ran to them. He stated, "They can CPR a lot better than me." They took over and took her to the hospital. The toddler is recovering well.

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