CPR INSTRUCTIONS HELP SAVE CHILD'S LIFE.Byline: - Dana Bartholomew Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. fire dispatcher Software that determines what pending tasks should be done next and assigns the available resources to accomplish it. It may execute other programs or generate a list for human operators to follow. See scheduler. Al Brumbach saved a 3-year-old girl's life by giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation mouth-to-mouth resuscitation n. A technique used to resuscitate a person who has stopped breathing, in which the rescuer presses his or her mouth against that of the victim and, allowing for passive exhalation, forces air into the lungs every few instructions over the telephone. On Monday, Brumbach, a 35-year firefighter and emergency operator, got the 911 call that can stop the hearts of dispatchers. Rachel Bernal, of Taft, wasn't breathing after being dredged by relatives from the bottom of her uncle's Sylmar swimming pool. So Brumbach did what he always has done in such cases when a call by paramedics would come too late to save a life: Talk the family, step by step, into giving cardiopulmonary resuscitation cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), emergency procedure used to treat victims of cardiac and respiratory arrest. CPR can be done in a hospital with drugs and special equipment or as a first-aid technique. . ``It worked out great,'' said the gruff 59-year-old dispatcher called ``Big Al'' by other firefighters. ``The baby started making noises, then taking breaths, then at the end of the conversation, I could hear the baby crying.'' Firefighters and family members are thrilled that the toddler, released Tuesday from Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys, is healthy. ``It brings a seasoned guy to his knees,'' said Capt. Stephen J. Ruda of the Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. . |
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