Choking Baby Saved by Stranger’s Lifevac Device

Now for a terrifying moment in a restaurant when a 10-month-old

baby

starts

choking

on a piece of pancake and virtually every other diner rushes to try to help, but when the Heimlich maneuver doesn't work, a simple

device

comes along that may not you have heard.

saved

the day is a family crisis that unfolds in real time a mother pats her 10 month old

baby

on the back after he starts

choking

on a piece of pancake we hit him, you know, we hit him on the back, I thought, okay, you know? He's got this, he's going to take it down, but the little boy's parents, John and Jane Kohler, quickly realized this was serious.

It was turning blue and it happened very quickly. You can see it in the video where I turned him over and at that moment he looked. really bad as I thought okay this is not good and that's when I screamed for help. You can see the look of horror on the people around him as mom and dad start hitting him back by hitting him hard and nothing was working at that point. Gabriel is unconscious. eyes rolled back eyes were back in his head completely blown from head to toe i thought he was going to die panic breaks out now watch this guy jump off his table at the ex-up grill in ballentine south carolina can you hear immediately in our voice It was not a good situation, but he does not go towards the commotion, he leaves and then runs back.

He has something in his hands, but what is he? He tells Mom to put little Gabriel on the table. I will never forget. She picked him up. and believe me as a last hope, Major Hillard had a

device

in his car called a life vacuum that sucked into little Gabriel's mouth, you can hear mom's panic, please,

stranger

s comforted the distraught mother after several dives of the device, a miracle as soon as he made that last puddle his eyes opened and he started gasping for air mom and dad hugged each other in relief we were there when john jane and little gabriel met the good samaritan i remember hugging him and almost as if I would break down because he is a man who

saved

my son's life, so what is Life Vac?

It is a portable device to clear the respiratory tract. Arthur Lee, the founder and CEO of Lifevac, put a piece of pancake in a doll's mouth to show how it works, as simple as placing, pushing and pulling, just as he did with little Gabriel. This gentleman had the device in his car for almost five years and he had never needed it before. We should note that the creators of Life say that even with their product they encourage everyone to learn the Heimlich maneuver and CPR.