Gillian Burnett and Garth Saunders received the call every parent fears. Their 20-month-old son, Waylon Saunders, fell into a swimming pool at the daycare he attended and was underwater for about 5 minutes. When he was finally pulled from the freezing water, he had no pulse and was technically dead.
Waylon was rushed to the emergency room. Dr. Nathan Taylor was on duty, and he reports that staff members dropped everything when they heard the toddler was on his way. “The other doctors that I work with at our family health team came running, left their offices, to help out,” he said.
Waylon’s body temperature was so low when he arrived that their equipment couldn’t even pick it up. He had no pulse, and everyone from nurses to lab techs and EMS workers took turns doing CPR on the boy for almost three hours. “Lab techs were holding portable heaters in the room at one point; EMS personnel also helped out by rotating through as compressors and helping with managing his airway(气道) and nurses were even running to microwave water to help with warming,” recalled Dr. Taylor. “And the whole time we had support on the line from the team in London.” Dr. Janice Tijsenn, from London Health Sciences Centre, was on the phone guiding the team remotely. When the child’s body temperature rose and his heart started beating on its own, he was transported to London Victoria Hospital for further care.
Two weeks later, Waylon walked out of the hospital on his own two feet. “We are going home today!!!!” his mother wrote on the Internet. “This little boy has amazed so many. They have no explanations as to how he’s progressed so well and so fast.” “Waylon is a little fighter, against many odds he survived the night,” a family friend said.
The family recently paid a visit to the doctors, nurses, and staff to say thank you for saving Waylon’s life. These dedicated medical workers really stepped up to turn a would-be tragedy into a miraculous recovery! Well done, everyone.
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