佐治亚州2岁幼儿被糖果噎住，Head Start主任用海姆立克法救回，监控视频疯传
11月12日，位于佐治亚州伯克县Waynesboro市的一家Head Start启智中心举行年度秋季家庭聚餐，140多个家庭到场与孩子一起用餐、在教室活动。活动结束离场时，2岁幼儿Jo Freeman把一颗糖放进嘴里，糖卡进喉咙。中心监控视频显示，孩子在走廊里明显呼吸困难，身边一名监护人试图帮忙。中心主任Yolanda Willis当时在约20英尺外，她抬头看见孩子脸色发青，立即冲上前实施海姆立克法，数次冲击腹部后糖被排出，孩子恢复呼吸。这段监控视频随后在社交平台扩散。
Willis对WRDW说：「我一看，孩子脸色发青，我就凭受过的全部训练行动了。你永远不知道哪天会用上这些技能，那天就是那一天。」孩子的母亲Felicia Freeman说，骚动开始时她刚走进走廊：「我儿子被一颗他放进嘴里的糖噎住了，糖卡在喉咙里。我走出来时意识到他在噎住，Willis女士立刻对他做海姆立克法，把糖弄了出来。」Freeman说当时非常害怕，但努力保持冷静：「我知道那一刻我不能慌，我一慌他可能就没了。」她说：「她是我们家的天使。我感谢上帝她受过那样的训练，要是她不在场，我真不知道会怎样。」
Willis说，她从事教育和儿童保育25多年，此前曾对一名儿童做过心肺复苏，也做过一次海姆立克法。她还透露，自己近期刚做过手术，本应遵守提重限制：「但那一刻这些都顾不上了，肾上腺素冲上来，就是行动的时候。」据WRDW报道，Jo在惊吓过后当天还能继续活动，目前情况好转。
中心团队表示，希望这段疯传视频带来的关注，能推动更多家长和照护者接受心肺复苏与急救培训。Willis说：「对有幼儿的家长来说，这是第一优先。我们的目标就是提高大家的意识，让我们的家长都学会这类救命技能。」Freeman也说，她感谢所有当时在场并作出反应的人：「没有人慌乱。他好起来了，我就是感谢上帝她当时在场。」
Georgia Head Start Director Saves Choking 2-Year-Old With the Heimlich Maneuver in Viral Surveillance Video
On November 12, a Head Start center in Waynesboro, a city in Burke County, Georgia, held its annual fall family meal, drawing more than 140 families to eat with their children and take part in classroom activities. As families were leaving, 2-year-old Jo Freeman put a piece of candy in his mouth and it lodged in his throat. Surveillance video from the center showed the child in obvious distress in the hallway as a guardian nearby tried to help. The center's director, Yolanda Willis, was about 20 feet away; she looked over, saw the child's face had turned blue, and rushed in to perform the Heimlich maneuver, delivering several abdominal thrusts until the candy came loose and the boy could breathe again. The surveillance video has since spread widely on social media.
"When I looked, the child was blue in the face, and I just took action from there, from everything I've been trained to do," Willis told WRDW. "You never know when you'll be able to use it, and yesterday was the day." The boy's mother, Felicia Freeman, said she stepped into the hallway as the commotion started. "My baby was choking on a piece of candy that he had put in his mouth, and it lodged in his throat," she said. "When I stepped out into the hallway, I realized that he was choking. Miss Willis immediately started doing the maneuver on him and got it out." Freeman said she was terrified but tried to stay calm: "I know it was best that I did not panic at a moment like that, or he could have died if I panicked." She added: "She's an angel to us. I thank God she had that training, because if she had not been there, I just don't know."
Willis said that in more than 25 years in education and child care, she had previously performed CPR on a child and the Heimlich maneuver once before. She also said she had recently had surgery and was supposed to be under lifting restrictions. "But all of that was out the door, and adrenaline rushed in, and it was go time," she said. According to WRDW, Jo was able to continue his day after the scare and is doing better.
The center's team said they hope the attention around the viral video will inspire more parents and caregivers to get trained in CPR and first aid. "A parent with toddlers, it is No. 1 priority," Willis said. "That's our goal, that we would bring awareness to this and that we could get our parents trained in these types of life-saving measures." Freeman said she was thankful for everyone who was involved and how they reacted: "No one panicked. He's doing better, and I just thank God she was there."
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