A Halifax police officer and the ‘intense’ moments of saving a choking woman
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Sgt. Phil Power, a Halifax Regional Police officer, leapt into action this week to save a woman who was choking at a restaurant.
Sgt. Phil Power is grateful that he was in the right place at the right time.
Power, a Halifax Regional Police officer, was attending a work meeting at the Mic Mac Bar & Grill in Dartmouth late Tuesday afternoon when he was approached with some troubling news.
“One of the staff members came up to me and said, ‘Hey, there’s an emergency, we need your help right now,’” Power said. “They pointed over across the restaurant, I looked over, and unfortunately, there was a 75-year-old woman, totally unconscious, being held up by about five people.”
Power went over and asked what happened, and was told the woman was choking.
He began giving the woman Heimlich maneuvers, but they weren’t successful. He then put the woman on the ground and started performing CPR.
“It was about five minutes of straight CPR. It was very intense,” he said.
Paramedics and fire personnel were called to the scene to take over. Just before they arrived, Power said, the woman opened her eyes.
“I could see that there was some response, which was fantastic because there was absolutely nothing to start with,” he said. “It was pretty encouraging, and a big sigh of relief.”
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