Lt. Lee Jin-ho (left) and Petty Officer Choi Hwan-yeong (Republic of Korea Navy)
Two medical officers of the Navy lately resuscitated an older girl who had misplaced consciousness after choking on tteok (rice cake), based on the Republic of Korea Navy.
Lt. Lee Jin-ho and Petty Officer Choi Hwan-yeong, have been visiting a cellphone restore heart in Seogwipo Metropolis in Jeju Island final Wednesday once they discovered a lady in her 70s mendacity unconscious throughout the road. The 2 males had gotten off their ship to restore their telephones after the salvage and rescue vessel Gwangyang of the Navy Sea Salvage and Rescue Unit docked on the southernmost resort island.
The sailors referred to as the 119 emergency service and carried out primary emergency procedures on the affected person. They checked for her pulse and initially tried the Heimlich maneuver to take away the tteok from her airway, however it could not budge.
After the 119 emergency employees arrived with the tools, Lee used the laryngoscope to look at the lady’s larynx and take away the caught rice cake, and carried out endotracheal intubation on her.
“It offers me nice pleasure to have the ability to save a citizen,” Lee was quoted as saying, whereas Choi vowed, “I’ll do my finest to guard the folks and the nation in regardless of the state of affairs, as a member of the proud Navy.”
