The Hamburg fire brigade received several emergency calls almost simultaneously on Saturday afternoon: a small child had suffered a cardiac arrest. Thereupon the employee of the rescue control center initially "courageously" calmed the excited callers, said the fire brigade of the Hanseatic city. Then he started to give "structured" instructions for resuscitation.
The two-year-old was then taken out of his children's cart and placed on the hard surface of a seating group in a restaurant in the Eimsbüttel district. Several passers-by and the boy's father then started to reanimate the child after being given telephone instructions.
After a minute, a so-called bolus, a foreign body that apparently led to cardiac and respiratory arrest, was released. According to the fire brigade, food scraps from small crispy pretzels had probably closed the two-year-old's windpipe.
The boy then started to scream - "good news for everyone: a child who screams, gets air and his heart beats," said the rescue workers. Just half a minute later an ambulance arrived, which took the boy to a clinic with a stable circuit and together with his parents.
The fire brigade emphasized that the life of the little boy could only be saved by working together in the rescue chain with the resuscitation that was directed by telephone and the courageous grabbing of the first aiders.