Across Brazil, First Responders Save Choking Infants in String of On-Scene Rescues

Overview

• Reports from across Brazil on Monday detail police, Segurança Presente teams and highway medics reviving choking infants in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Mato Grosso, with the children then taken for evaluation and reported stable.
• In Nova Iguaçu, agents from the Segurança Presente program used the Heimlich maneuver to bring back a boy who had lost vital signs after choking on an ice cube inside a pastelaria.
• On the Padre Manoel da Nóbrega highway in Itariri, Novo Litoral responders restored breathing and a heartbeat in a 1 year and 2 months old who arrived unconscious with convulsions, then transported the child to a local hospital.
• In Tatuí, parents rushed a newborn who choked on breast milk to a police station, where an officer performed airway clearing maneuvers and sent the baby to the hospital for observation.
• Newly released police body-camera video from São Paulo shows officers continuing infant airway maneuvers during a urgent drive to a hospital until the newborn resumed breathing, underscoring how training and speed can change outcomes.