A 12-year-old girl who learned First Aid during a babysitting course last year is credited with saving her grandmother’s life.
Kaylee Campbell of Trenton was having lunch with her grandmother at a New Glasgow Subway when the woman choked on a piece of bacon.
“My nan took a bite of her sub and she started choking so the lady at the Subway called 911,” said Campbell, who said her grandmother was unable to talk at the time of the incident. “She put her hands near her stomach and it clicked in my mind what was happening.”
The Trenton Middle School girl remembered her First Aid course and quickly jumped into action by performing the Heimlich manoeuvre on the woman, which caused the piece of bacon to come out of her airway.
The manoeuvre is a first aid procedure for dislodging an obstruction in a person’s windpipe in which a sudden, strong pressure is applied on the abdomen, between the navel and the rib cage.
Campbell said the incident scared her a little bit, but she didn’t hesitate in trying the manoeuvre.
“I knew I may have to use it but I hoped I wouldn’t,” she said.
