"I saved an eight-year-old boy at school thanks to the clearing maneuver that I had seen practiced in the television series Grey's Anatomy": this is told by Flavia Napolitano, a teacher in a primary school in Perugia, where last May the child risked suffocating eating a snack during recess.

A story that had already emerged in some local media and which this morning in Foligno was again remembered during the award ceremony that the "Amici del cuore Valle Umbra" association wanted to reserve for the teacher, giving her the "Cavaliere del heart 2022 ".

"I was doing a substitution and they found me in a class that wasn't mine, when at one point I saw a child turn blue in the face," said the teacher. "I understood immediately - he added - that he was suffocating. I screamed for help and at the same time I took the baby and put him on my legs and in that instant I was reminded of a scene from the television series where Dr. Owen Hunt, played by actor Kevin Mckidd, he practiced the maneuver on a child to free him from a foreign body he had swallowed. Fortunately it worked. " In remembering those moments the teacher is still moved: "Thinking back on it, my tears still fall today". "The child - said Flavia again - was then taken to the hospital for further checks. In the meantime I developed a great friendship with the child's parents". "The appeal I want to make today is to make compulsory for all courses that can save people's lives, such as the Heimlich maneuver," said the teacher.

(Unioneonline / lf)

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