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Well the family is on WTOP speaking ill of the daycare before they have all the facts. I'm sorry about what happened but they are obviously looking for someone to blame based on the radio interview. Sometimes it's just a shitty thing that happens and no one is to blame.

Yeah, but sometimes someone IS to blame, and that may very well be the case here. I think it's likely the parents have more facts about what occurred than you do.

The grandmother implied there were no staff members in the room when the kids were eating.

Yes, and what happened with CPR? You would think that timely administration would address a run-of-the-mill choking issue. And if there was no one available to do so in a timely matter that seems like blatant negligence by the daycare. That should be priority number one for daycare workers serving a meal.

CPR only works if you're able to dislodge whatever they're choking on. It's not a magic solution. Many people have died from choking while supervised, and with CPR given immediately.

It's important to know that supervision and CPR training can't prevent all deaths, so that people don't think "It's OK to serve grapes or hotdogs, as long as I'm watching".

I think it's way to early to know whether the child was supervised, and whether there was something about the meatballs that made them particularly risky. It's possible that there was negligence, and it's possible that the center did everything right, and it was just a case of incredibly bad luck. Either way, it's heartbreaking.

CPR is NOT given on a person who is choking. Where do you people learn this? Think about this slowly.

IF you had something in your throat blocking the airway, and someone goes to blow a breath in your mouth now where the hell do you think
the item blocking your airflow is going to go? DUH. You want it to come OUT, hence the Heimlich Maneuver.

You initially do a sweep of the mouth to make sure there is no blockage, and if you do know there is, you see if you can swipe it out with your
pinky finger and if that doesnt work, then the HM.

Which is why I wrote that CPR can only work after the object is dislodged.

If someone chokes and their heart has stopped by the time you dislodge the object you do CPR.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Well the family is on WTOP speaking ill of the daycare before they have all the facts. I'm sorry about what happened but they are obviously looking for someone to blame based on the radio interview. Sometimes it's just a shitty thing that happens and no one is to blame.

Yeah, but sometimes someone IS to blame, and that may very well be the case here. I think it's likely the parents have more facts about what occurred than you do.

The grandmother implied there were no staff members in the room when the kids were eating.

Yes, and what happened with CPR? You would think that timely administration would address a run-of-the-mill choking issue. And if there was no one available to do so in a timely matter that seems like blatant negligence by the daycare. That should be priority number one for daycare workers serving a meal.

CPR only works if you're able to dislodge whatever they're choking on. It's not a magic solution. Many people have died from choking while supervised, and with CPR given immediately.

It's important to know that supervision and CPR training can't prevent all deaths, so that people don't think "It's OK to serve grapes or hotdogs, as long as I'm watching".

I think it's way to early to know whether the child was supervised, and whether there was something about the meatballs that made them particularly risky. It's possible that there was negligence, and it's possible that the center did everything right, and it was just a case of incredibly bad luck. Either way, it's heartbreaking.

CPR is NOT given on a person who is choking. Where do you people learn this? Think about this slowly.

IF you had something in your throat blocking the airway, and someone goes to blow a breath in your mouth now where the hell do you think
the item blocking your airflow is going to go? DUH. You want it to come OUT, hence the Heimlich Maneuver.

You initially do a sweep of the mouth to make sure there is no blockage, and if you do know there is, you see if you can swipe it out with your
pinky finger and if that doesnt work, then the HM.