Here is a particularly poignant excerpt from “Special Envoy”: the recording of a conversation between a panicked mother and a firefighter who helped her save the life of her baby.
“Finally, I know what he looks like, my son’s hero.“That day, by meeting Loïc, Caroline can finally put a face to the voice that guided her on the phone to rescue her child. And say thank you to him – for having helped save his life.
It was July 12, 2021, around 1 p.m.: Ryan, 2 months, is not breathing. “It’s all blue“, explains, distraught, her mother at the Beauvais emergency call center. Her baby is having a cardiac arrest. Waiting for the arrival of the SAMU team, the firefighter with whom she is in communication on the phone will help him to do the right things as quickly as possible.Here is an extract from the recording of the conversation, commented on with great emotion by Caroline, the mother, and by Loïc, the firefighter.
“It has to work. If it doesn’t work, the baby will die”
At first, Loïc guides Caroline to try mouth-to-mouth resuscitation after having placed the child on a table. But “the baby does not come back. And there, the time, it becomes long“. Each time listening to this very difficult moment, Ryan’s mother relives the panic she experienced.
For Loïc, the pressure also mounts, even if his voice betrays nothing. It is necessary to pass immediately to the cardiac massage, the technique of the last chance. “When we are going to attack the cardiac compressions, it has to work. If it doesn’t work, the baby will die.” To stay calm and focused, Loïc isolates himself in a room to do the compressions himself, on a table, the rhythm of which he indicates to Caroline. “Top, top, top…”
After a few endless minutes, “that’s it, he opens his eyes…” Ryan is saved. “It’s a second birth“, blows Caroline at the mention of this moment.
Excerpt from “Live rescue”, to see in “Special Envoy” on March 9, 2023.
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