9-year-old NYC boy chokes in school cafeteria

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9-year-old NYC boy chokes in school cafeteria
9-year-old NYC boy chokes in school cafeteria - Yahoo! News

NEW YORK (AP) — Witnesses say a fourth-grade boy choked on meatballs during lunch in a New York City school cafeteria this month and later died.

The New York Post (A bronx fourth grader dies after choking on his lunch at school - NYPOST.com ) reports that 9-year-old Jonathan Jewth fell to the ground during lunch Dec. 5 and was unconscious before help arrived. They say cafeteria workers at Public School 47 in the Bronx didn't know what to do and failed to help him.

Jonathan's family says the little boy suffered brain damage and died Monday.

Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott says his death was a tragedy. Education officials haven't responded to requests for comment about what witnesses say the workers did.
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that totally helpless!
 
I am surprised no one knew the Heimlich manuever.
 
I thought one of the requirement of schools is to have a certain ratio of CPR and first aid teachers per student.
 
if the boy was choking, CPR is worthless.
 
Steel X said:
....then what is the best way to stop his choking?
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see Botti's Post #2. if a boy was choking, then how can CPR help if a meatball was blocking his airway?

3 possible procedures that can be performed to clear his obstructed airway -

1. Heimleck Maneuver
2. Roll up your sleeve and dig in to clear it out with your fingers
3. If all failed, pray and hope that somebody can perform cricothyroidotomy properly

if I remembered correctly, you have approximately 3 minutes before poor bastard's brain goes kaput.
 
Babyblue said:
I thought one of the requirement of schools is to have a certain ratio of CPR and first aid teachers per student.
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I thought federal guidelines has a specification and that a specific number of adults, based on the number of children, had to be certified in CPR.
 
Jiro said:
see Botti's Post #2. if a boy was choking, then how can CPR help if a meatball was blocking his airway?

3 possible procedures that can be performed to clear his obstructed airway -

1. Heimleck Maneuver
2. Roll up your sleeve and dig in to clear it out with your fingers
3. If all failed, pray and hope that somebody can perform cricothyroidotomy properly

if I remembered correctly, you have approximately 3 minutes before poor bastard's brain goes kaput.
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I think it's 6 minutes before permanent brain damage. Every second you spend without oxygen you'd be getting more though and even with permanent brain damage it's usually not life threatening. I would've hated to have been the kid. Sitting there gasping for breath. He had to have been terrified. There still should've been someone there who had been train in CPR.
 
The Heimlich Maneuver is taught during CPR training through the AHA and the ARC. It's taught in First Responder courses as well.

I thought all school teachers had to take and complete a CPR course and re-certify every two years. If it's not a requirement, it's actually not a bad one to have.

However if the meatball was blocking the airway, CPR would be useless.

I have a feeling this will be the last time the school serves meatballs at school as they have proven to be a choking hazard.
 
Poor bastard

Jiro said:
see Botti's Post #2. if a boy was choking, then how can CPR help if a meatball was blocking his airway?

3 possible procedures that can be performed to clear his obstructed airway -

1. Heimleck Maneuver
2. Roll up your sleeve and dig in to clear it out with your fingers
3. If all failed, pray and hope that somebody can perform cricothyroidotomy properly

if I remembered correctly, you have approximately 3 minutes before poor bastard's brain goes kaput.
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POOR BASTARD!! Have some compassion. Obviously you have never buried a child. To call one a BASTARD, is just so sad!!!:angel:
 
Angle1989 said:
POOR BASTARD!! Have some compassion. Obviously you have never buried a child. To call one a BASTARD, is just so sad!!!:angel:
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We have all had tragedies. He wasn't referring to the little boy.
 
Jiro said:
if the boy was choking, CPR is worthless.
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No true.. If you have taken a CPR class they will tell you, at a last resort chest thrust can cause an object to dislodge. Or of the person is extremely over weight. You just do not do the giving the breath part.
 
jillio said:
I thought federal guidelines has a specification and that a specific number of adults, based on the number of children, had to be certified in CPR.
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I thought so too. I know in Florida they do.

I can not even work in a hospital unless I know CPR. Funny eh? Full of doctors and nurses and when I worked there as a housekeeper, it was mandatory that I have a CPR certificate.

I have been CPR/First Aide certified for 15 years now.
 
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