A Kansas City police officer saves the life of an infant who stopped breathing / myLot

Kansas City Police Officer Duchaine with Kamiyah Allen.

Lake Charles, Louisiana

November 10, 2022 5:34pm CST

Tajanea Allen who is the mother of a one month old baby girl named Kamiyah who suddenly stopped breathing inside of her parents home in Kansas City Missouri morning which altered one of her parents made an emergency call to report the incident. Kansas City Police Officers Richard Duchaine and Charles Owen arrived to the home where the infant needed some medical attention as soon as possible. The father of the infant handed Kamiyah who was not breathing to Officer Duchaine who used his life saving skills to use chest compressions on the infant at first. When that attempt to revive the infant failed, Officer Duchaine went with his backup plan and used the back thrusts to revive the infant. Tajanea was so happy that Officer Duchaine saved her daughter who was born premature since came into the world in 34 weeks was taken to a hospital where she was diagnosed with RSV. Kamiyah is expected to make a full recovery since according to her mother.

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99405)

• Atlanta, Georgia

11 Nov 22

What a scary thing to happen. Many babies lose their lives when they stop breathing. They were lucky the officer didn't give up on the baby.

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@stringer321 (5644)

• Kiryat Ata, Israel

11 Nov 22

My sister used a monitor and a device to keep track of her baby's heart beat and breathing. She was responsible and careful. She once had to tap the baby because the device showed some signs of emergency, the baby maybe got choked or some breathing problem, when sleeping. My sister woke up the baby and the signs of emergency went back to normal.

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George B Vieto

@Deepizzaguy (104160)

• Lake Charles, Louisiana

11 Nov 22

It is very scary when an infant or child suddenly stops breathing.

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99405)

• Atlanta, Georgia

11 Nov 22

@stringer321 I think a lot of new parents use the monitor and it’s saved many babies lives. My granddaughter was premature and she had a monitor for several weeks.

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@stringer321 (5644)

• Kiryat Ata, Israel

11 Nov 22

It is very important to know first aid for choking emergency. In my workplace, we get every 6 month a reminder about how to help someone who is choked, we are told about the Heimlich maneuver, or back blows. How to use a defibrilator, how to help in case someone lose consciousness. I saved my grandmother with back tapping: we watched tv, and suddenly she started coughing, and struggled breathing. I gave her taps on her back and she got to breath again. It sometimes happen when the throat just makes some liquid that goes to the trachea without noticing. One time, my nephew ate an orange, he got choked too, my brother gave him some blows on the back, and the orange piece went out. What is the RSV that the baby got diagnosed with ?

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@stringer321 (5644)

• Kiryat Ata, Israel

11 Nov 22

@Deepizzaguy Thanks for explaining. Who knows if the virus showed some early symptoms before making the baby choking. I see the website cdc.gov says that this virus is transmitted by the same ways as the covid-19. We all have to be careful.

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George B Vieto

@Deepizzaguy (104160)

• Lake Charles, Louisiana

12 Nov 22

@stringer321 I am very careful since a small head cold can turn into a serious illness.

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George B Vieto

@Deepizzaguy (104160)

• Lake Charles, Louisiana

11 Nov 22

It s a bacteria that the infant has from birth.