2023-07-10 18:37:00
The victim at the moment when the toilets take him out on a stretcher from the restaurant with the terrace full of people CARLOS CORTS
His heart stopped beating, but he was saved by the fact that an emergency doctor was in the same dining room
10 jul 2023 . Updated at 6:57 p.m.
A man he was about to die this Monday in Monfortea choked in a restaurant with a piece of meat. If he is still alive, it is probably because an emergency doctor was in the dining room who began to give him cardiorespiratory resuscitation. It happened at noon in one of the restaurants in the center of this town in the Ribeira Sacra.
The event occurred shortly after two in the afternoon when the man was sitting at the table in the dining room of La Polar restaurant, located in the pedestrian section of Calle Cardenal.
Accompanied by two people, I was eating a meat dish and chatting animatedly when suddenly he became short of breath. Shortly after, he had lost consciousness and the people who were with him decided to notify the emergency services.
His companions imagined that he had choked on a piece of meat, so they and the local staff they tried to make him expelbut they did not succeed.
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At that moment, a doctor who works in the emergency service of the Monforte Public Hospital was sitting in the cafeteria room between the street and the dining room. Upon hearing the cries of alarm from the victim’s companions, she approached and also tried to perform an airway clearance maneuver, but she did not achieve anything either. Apparently, the piece of meat was too low.
After verifying that he was no longer breathing, he began to give him cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Shortly after an ambulance arrived and his staff relieved the doctor. Since they arrived, the man takes about six minutes in recovering spontaneous cardiac activity.
Once they verified that he was breathing again and that his heart was beating without help, they loaded him onto a stretcher and took him to the ambulance that was waiting in the street.
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The victim was not transferred to the local hospital, but to Lugo, because In Monforte there is no intensive care unit, and the seriousness of his condition required that type of assistance. The patient was admitted to the ICU of the public hospital in Lugo, the HULA.
We will have to wait and see how it evolves to see if it suffers any damage from the time spent without breathing.
After the patient was evacuated by ambulance, the doctor who intervened in the first place admitted that she was shocked by what had happened. I don’t work I have had to deal with such cases – he explains – but never in the frog until today.
The activity in the establishment did not come to a stop at any time. The customers who at that time filled the terrace of the restaurant did not even know what was happening inside. As for those who were in the dining room, they did not get up from their tables either.
A second ambulance was needed
The first-arrived ambulance personnel, an advanced life support vehicle, requested that a second ambulance be dispatched to the scene because they needed your help.
The 061 bases in Monforte, Foz and O Salns are the only ones in Galicia with advanced life support vehicles, or medicalized ambulances, attended by three people instead of four, which is the usual minimum number.
The professionals who first treated this person who was suffocating this Monday had to use a respirator connected to a cylinder, a cardiac massage device, a monitor and a drip with serum to revive him. only with three people it’s impossible to handle all that and also upload a patient to the stretcher and take him to the ambulance.
Filed under: Monforte de Lemos Choking
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