“Some of the differences that are important are where you put your hands on the chest when a child isn’t breathing and isn’t responding,” Markenson explains.
“So while it’s good to know what to do for adults, for children and infants you have to have special training on their CPR and their first aid.
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“Because children’s bodies and the way they work - especially infants - are different from adults, you need to know how to help them, and the technique for CPR and some first aid steps are very different for an infant and a child,” he tells Yahoo Life. It’s also important for that training to be specific to infants and children, he adds.
David Markenson, chief medical officer for American Red Cross Training Services, agrees that it’s crucial for caregivers to know how to administer first aid and perform CPR, saying, “in what could be a tragic situation, you can save a life if you’re trained.” Infant CPR training courses are available online via the American Red Cross. “The whole point of this is to let people know: This little thing, CPR, the 10-minute class you get at work once a year, or the thing you learn for 30 minutes before you have a baby, don’t brush it off, because you never know when you’re going to need to know it, and it can truly - we’re proof - save lives.” There’s so many people that know exactly what we’re going through, and people that may have lost their child that are just so gracious that ours survived, that are sharing their stories of survival and the impact CPR has made on their lives, and that is overwhelming. “When you go through something like this with your own child it can feel isolating and like no one understands what you’re going through, when in fact this has let me know the exact opposite. “The comments, and the messages, and the outpouring of support is beyond anything we ever could imagine, and I’ve read every single one of them on Facebook, and on Twitter,” he says. He’s also combing through the comments that have flooded in from his broadcast, many of them from other parents who shared their own frightening experiences. “They’re our first first responders, and they’re so underappreciated, and they shouldn’t be.” “911 operators are truly the first line of defense,” he says. He adds that he and his wife plan to meet with the dispatcher who helped them save Cameron’s life. He’s a healthy, normal baby boy right now.” “ believe he had mucus that clogged his airway, and at 13 days old he didn’t know how to expel, so he stopped breathing,” Schammert says, adding that Cameron is currently “doing great. Cameron spent the next 36 hours in the hospital, where a chest X-ray revealed an unknown viral infection in his lungs. She also sent over paramedics, who arrived shortly after Cameron started crying, a sign that the infant had regained his breath. “Especially when it’s your own child - you’re panicked and confused and you don’t know what to do,” Schammert says.įortunately, a 911 dispatcher - whom Schammert hailed as a “hero” in his now-viral broadcast - was able to “walk us through everything” as both he and Kym performed CPR on their son. Though Schammert and his wife, Kym, had received infant CPR training as part of their prenatal classes a couple of months prior to the 2018 birth of firstborn son Theo, he tells Yahoo Life that he went into panic mode as he and Kym frantically called 911 for help. 5, his younger son, 13-day-old Cameron, appeared unwell, later turning purple and “gasping for air” as his father loaded him into his car seat. As an emotional Schammert relayed to viewers, on Jan. (Photo: Emily Hardy Photography)Ī Nebraska news anchor’s family health scare has prompted him to issue a heartfelt plea for parents to learn how to perform CPR on their infants and children.īill Schammert, the evening news anchor for CBS affiliate KOLN-TV in Lincoln, Neb., choked up during his broadcast on Monday evening after returning to the news desk following his newborn son’s hospitalization.
Bill Schammert (pictured with wife Kym and sons Cameron and Theo) is raising awareness about the importance of learning infant CPR following his newborn's health scare.
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