Quick thinking ten year old saves friend

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Thu, 05/28/2009 - 9:29am
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Quick thinking ten year old saves friend

Fourth-grader’s quick thinking saves classmate

When his friend began choking during lunch last week, fourth-grader Kaiden Condos didn’t panic.He did the Heimlich maneuver.
“It just came to my head,” 10-year-old Condos said Wednesday. “I knew what the Heimlich was but never thought I’d need to use it.”

What a wonderful story about a quick thinking little boy. I love reading stories like this in the Tribune. Reminds me that the world isn't all doom and gloom. I'm also impressed he was taught the maneuver in 3rd grade. I had no idea they did such a thing. I wonder if that's standard ciriculum or something Sand Lake does?

Michelle

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Thu, 05/28/2009 - 10:15am
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Re: Quick thinking ten year old saves friend

The problem is that often problems are made worse by incorrectly applied first aid techniques. This kid might have had a natural talent for the heimlich maneuver, but is it really a good idea to depend on children to do first aid?

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Thu, 05/28/2009 - 2:24pm
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Well, no, depending on

Well, no, depending on children for it is not optimal. But if it's a choice between a child doing it and no one doing it, it's good for the child to be trained. This story doesn't make it clear whether there was an adult nearby capable of doing it.

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Thu, 05/28/2009 - 8:37pm
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Re: Quick thinking ten year old saves friend

This is a perfect example of a good initial post gone bad by someone "questioning" what happened. It doesn't matter if there was an adult nearby to save the boy or not, the whole story is a 10 y/o reacted properly and saved a classmates life. PERIOD. Why does someone have to come by and question a childs ability to give first aid? This is the type of story that we need to read more of every day. Good, positive happy ending type stories. Only a negative type person can come along and make up "what if" questions or blow the whole thing apart. Having worked in the medical field for many years, I've seen "professionals" who made very simple mistakes which lead to additional trauma and problems for a patient. What happens then? All of the other "professionals" turn their heads and pretend everything went peachy. I always wrote an incident report when I saw trained medical professionals make errors and my reports were promptly discarded by higher-ups due to the chance of litigation. Our area's Medical Directors are a disgrace in many ways and it doesn't stop there.

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Thu, 05/28/2009 - 10:10pm
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Re: Quick thinking ten year old saves friend

I so agree with VA and such posts usually come without a face (like it came in this case), I believe that this is because they KNOW that this will cause someone to get mad at them and they're too chicken and inadequate to defend themselves and to stick up for their beliefs. I for one would rather have a child who was trained do the Heimlich maneuver on me (or even a child that just has seen it done before and think he can help) than nobody helping me at all when I'm choking to death... that's for sure. If that child would have a parent like that person who posted that negative comment, that child for sure wouldn't have tried saving that other child's life.. instead he would've stood by thinking "I think I could help him... maybe".. until it was too late, cause he would be too insecure to step up to the plate.

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Thu, 05/28/2009 - 10:15pm
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Re: Quick thinking ten year old saves friend

Yeah, that's a good point. A well trained youth is better than an untrained adult. He did what needed to be done, did it right, and should be very proud of himself. We're so quick to talk when kids do the wrong thing. Let's let him have the limelight for something good.

Michelle

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