Posted on 10/09/2014 5:43:13 AM PDT by areukiddingme1
Two Louisville Police Officers are being credited with saving the life of a two-year old boy who was seriously injured after an accident. The family of 2-year old Littson...say the police are their angels...and because of them...their baby boy is happy...healing...and alive. "I want to say them, thank you so much they help my baby, my baby now is happy and has the life."
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WoW! 12 staples in little guys head and 30 more around his body. This really could have ended very badly for the little guy. Thank God those two officers were around.
Kudos to the officers for doing the right thing.
But I do get tired of the misuse of the word and concept “hero.”
A hero, to my mind at least, is someone who performs admirably, often saving life or protecting others, despite great personal risk.
Someone who simply thinks quickly and does his job properly is not necessarily a hero. Nor is a victim, like a POW who is tortured, necessarily a hero.
Putting an injured child, or any person, into a police car and rushing him to the ER can cause more harm than good.
Were they trained to immobilize a cervical injury? Splint fractures that can tear nerves or puncture blood vessels?
EMS it the only safe way to get an injured person to an ER. Me thinks they got sucked into the drama on the scene and made a bad decision.
Glad it turned out well though
Turning back the clock 40-plus years — this is how they used to do it.
Probably would have been better to just apply direct pressure and wait three minutes for advanced medical care to come to the scene. Maybe I’m biased.
Having been in EMS I have seen things go very wrong when untrained personnel try to transport someone that is severely injured or ill.
A little parental hysteria mixed in is sure to help. I can picture the scene.
They said in the video that they had colleagues shut down intersections and clear an interstate. I can imagine they were flying along at warp speed. I doubt they used a properly installed child seat, but it is possible.
Nice that there is some good news about the police
Bloomingdale,Il a few years back; a water main repair.
Part of the bank falls in injuring the worker.
The workers had most of the dirt off the victim.
The fire chief arrives and orders everyone out of the excavation, until they have a proper ‘sandbox’. The large steel box with two sides that support the trench; typically set with a crane.
A civilian jumps in the hole to assist the victim; police order him out!
HOURS later the sandbox was placed and the now DEAD victim was extracted.
The water main had about four feet of cover and the victim was above the main. Not deep.
“Glad it turned out well though”
And that is what is important, regardless of the transportation method.
A special thanks to the LEOs who did what they are supposed to do.
That’s the point, they didn’t do what they were supposed to do. But it turned out OK this time.
There are exceptions to every rule.
When I was a policeman, we once found two stabbing victims losing consciousness in the front seat of a car. The stabbing must have happened only a few minutes before. Each victim had been stabbed at least a dozen times, and one had been shot once in the foot. We couldn’t stop the bleeding due to the number of stab wounds.
We put each victim into the back seat of a patrol car, and rushed them to the closest E.R., which was only a few blocks away. Our dispatcher notified the E.R., and they were standing by when we arrived at the ambulance bay.
The E.R. doctors said our decision saved the lives of the stabbing victims.
“The E.R. doctors said our decision saved the lives of the stabbing victims.”
That is great news — I love to hear good news like yours.
That’s very sad, but stories like that seem to be more frequent these days.
I remember at Columbine when the cops milled around outside, for way, way too long as the killers continued killing inside, unmolested. But at least every officer made it home to their family that night, and that’s all that matters, right?
And I remember reading about a house fire where the firemen had the owner arrested and taken away because the owner saw his dog had made it to the big glass sliding doors and was looking out at his master for rescue. The man grabbed an axe to smash the glass and rescue the dog, but the cops arrested him instead, and the dog died.
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