Amit Halbertl is a young Israeli who studies at the University of Trent in the city of Peterborough, Canada, and works for a living at a neighborhood bar as a bartender and waiter.
Halbertl is also the son of Prof. Michael Halbertl, director of Rambam Hospital in Haifa - one of Israel's largest experts in trauma and emergency medicine.
A few days ago, while on duty, one of the customers started choking and was unable to breathe.
One of the workers tried to pat him on the back in order to help him, to no avail.
Halbertl recognized the distress of the man who had already begun to turn blue and the danger to his life, moved his co-worker, approached the suffocating man - a large man and performed a Heimlich maneuver to open an airway blocked by the foreign body.
He pressed hard on the diaphragm to extract the food from the trachea - and it was ejected.
Dr. Halbertl, Photo: Michelle Dot Com
The quick and accurate response saved the customer's life.
In the video from the bar, it can be seen that only after a few strong jabs did the man who suffocated with his finger towards his neck signal that he could already breathe again, and thanked Halbertl.
And a colleague?
The young and determined Israeli returned to serve beer behind the counter - still, students should continue to make a living.
"Precisely this son, in contrast to his sister who became a doctor and another brother who is a paramedic, did not study or take an interest in saving lives as a profession," says the father, Prof. Halbertl.
"But it turns out that life itself summons surprises and a need to know how to react quickly."
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