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07-25-2013, 11:10 AM
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911 Dispatcher Coaches Mom to Save Choking Toddler
A Davis County 911 dispatcher is credited with helping a Farmington, Utah, mother save her toddler son from choking in July 2013, staying on the phone to guide her through emergency care until rescue crews reached the home. The boy was 22 months old. A small plastic toy had lodged in his throat and he stopped breathing, according to accounts of the call. His mother dialed 911, and dispatcher Amanda Glezos answered at the Davis County Sheriff's Office communications center in Farmington. Glezos kept the mother on the line and talked her through clearing the child's airway and performing CPR, coaching each step as she waited for medics. Paramedics arrived and took the boy to a hospital, where he recovered. Glezos is a longtime dispatcher at the Davis County center, which fields 911 calls for Farmington and much of the surrounding county. A guide to Utah dispatch work describes a Davis County Sheriff's Office dispatcher with about 10 years on the job who was credited with saving a choking toddler by instructing the mother on CPR over the phone until paramedics arrived, matching the details of the Farmington call. A recording of the call was later preserved in a public-safety dispatch archive. It runs roughly six minutes and captures the exchange between the mother and Glezos.
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