Brooklyn Mother: "Man In Uniform" Let My Daughter Die

Can you give cpr to a person who is having as asthma attack. Can it help?

CPR, Cardiopulmonary resuscitation meaning your heart is stopped asthma is an issue with breathing. So unless you want to break some ribs what you would be doing would be counterproductive

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100901111314AAJEuep

If someone has an asthma attack and collapses, what should a person do? Will CPR help?

If someone collapses from an asthma attack, it is because he or she is not getting enough oxygen. This is because all the lung's small airways have narrowed and are not allowing enough air to reach the air sacs. Mouth to mouth respiration may help a little. The real need is to get this person to an emergency department so that the patient can receive medications and emergency endotracheal intubation (a tube in the main airway).

http://depts.washington.edu/learncpr/askdoctor.html#If%20someone%20has

It's still the mother's fault - dial 911 instead of pretending to be an ambulance. She could have injured someone.

I guess a lot of you idiots owe this family an apology

NY Daily News: Cop identified, suspended by NYPD for failing to help woman save daughter dying of asthma

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/08/31/2010-08-31_cop_identified_suspended_by_nypd_for_failing_to_help_woman_save_daughter_dying_o.html

Since the city thought it was a good idea to put everyone in the same type of cars as the real police, including traffic agents, school safety, and auxillary, not to mention allowing the Jewish "patrols", such as the CHVP and the CHSP in crown heights, it could have been almost anyone.

My money is on some brownie in his new cop-looking uniform and car was the person in question, and I doubt the NYPD trains them in CPR (which wasn't needed anyway).

All around sad, but again: They are barking up the wrong tree.

maybe they should go back to their brown uniforms.

But then people would realize how few cops are actually on the street.

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Update: They showed the street on CBS 2 news, and there is no way a car could fit past another. It was probably her vs many other cars that could not back out to deal with her craziness.

This is sad but I couldn't even watch ABC interview the mother. She started wailing "why did the officer let her die why didn't he perform CPR?" someone posted 'why didn't the parents learn CPR, why weren't they prepared? They knew their child was asthmatic.' good question. Also the wailing and screaming may have contributed to the problem. The Red Cross says most deaths occur because ppl wait too long for treatment or don't call 911 in time. Either way, it's a sad story.

Every parent I know is packed and ready to deal with their child's asthma/allergy/medical condition.

I won't kick a mother after she just lost her child, but if this goes to court, she will have to testify in court as to her preparations, if any, for an emergency she knew was coming.

Yes, asthma attacks don't happen without warning.

The child was probably wheezing that day and/or showing some sign of a worsening respiratory problem. Was the mother monitoring her daughter's breathing on a daily basis with a peak flow meter? A good guess is that these parents were overly relying on the nebulizer as an easy quick-fix treatment for their daughter's asthma episodes instead of taking proactive and preventive measures to avoid such attacks in the first place.

in one of the links it says they have a nebulizer in the car but it didn't help. if that's true, that's not your ordinary puffer.

not to worry briana, it will all balance out in the end, if not now, soon. at least we have one brave eyewitness.

I bet the woman who climbed under the downed pole had a brave witness too.

did his name show up anywhere?

it all balances out in the end though.

This is a tragedy, but I agree that the mom should have called 911. Of course, it's hard to think rationally when your kid's dying, but the ambulance would have been a lot faster than trying to drive to the hospital. Average ambulance response time in NYC is only 5-7 minutes for life-threatening emergencies and the ambulance would have been equipped with medical equipment and staffed by fully qualified EMTs. That is not to say there was no wrongdoing by this guy and I guess we'll just have to wait and see it play out.

First of all, I am sorry for her loss. Nevertheless, her plan to "make someone pay" for her child's death is misguided.

1. If the officer could not do CPR, he should not have attempted it.

2. While having her drive to the hospital might seem like the best idea for her child, it seems apparent the woman was not in any condition to drive safely to the hospital. She already crashed once. Putting other people at risk of reckless driving would have been a bad idea. It sounds like EMS was called which was the right decision for safety.

3. Officers document everything. If the NYPD was at the scene, there would be a report.

Sadly, her daughter died b/c she had an asthma attack. Nobody is to blame.

Cops document everything? Really?

What happened to this family is very sad, but trying to blame some one else is dumb. The thing to do was call 911. Just because something terrible happened there doesn't need to be a bad guy and trying to finger some one as the bad guy when you made many mistakes that may have resulted in the death of your child is nasty.

In the article it said the child was breathing (and therefore wouldn't need CPR). The streets in that area are almost all very narrow and cannot fit two cars side by side. I doubt she was blocked as much as after making a bad decision she got stuck.

I think fuboy is mainly right on this ... people need to take responsibility for their actions and act as responsible adults. Having said that, if this was a police or government offical (who could tell someone they were not free to leave), they should be scruntinized in their acts or omisions, if any.

Parents are on the hook for their children's lives (comes with the territory), and don't be an emergency service person unless you know how to do CPR. (Period). This is basic stuff and takes literally 6 classes to learn.

So sad.

There's a lot wrong with the story, but I'll start with the most obvious.

Carmen, you are more to blame than an any 'man in uniform' for your daughter's death. If Brianna had asthma, you should have expected an attack if you took her to a playground in the summer. Most asthma sufferers carry an inhaler when exercising/playing just in case of an attack. Now, I can't expect a child to always remember this. But you were her parent, it was your responsibility to teach your child to have it or to bring it along just in case.

Also, maybe you should have called for emergency services and waited, instead of jumping in your car and driving, panicked, the wrong way down one way streets. If you didn't know that road was one way, did you know where the hospital was? You may have been trying to avoid traffic, but that's why ambulances have the flashy lights and sirens. And they've got trained medical staff to deal with this situation, not some random people off the street who may or may not know what to do.

Your lack of forethought, poor judgement and bad driving killed your kid more than this man, who you can't identify and may be wrong about being a cop.

I'm sorry Brianna died, but put blame where blame is due.

From the NY Post:

The tragedy happened after Briana suffered an asthma attack at 5:15 p.m. Friday at a playground in Carroll Gardens.

"We have all the equipment in the car but nothing was working. Her eyes started to get really, really big," Briana's heartbroken dad, Michael, told The Post.

They did have asthma equipment. Before you berate the parents at least read the articles first.

Maybe the mother should have waited, maybe she did and they were taking long, I don't know but I'm sure she panicked as she was watching her daughter dying and did whatever she thought would save her daughter.

Hindsight is always 20/20, let's try not to be so judgmental.

BTW, NY Post readers are real animals. In their comments section quite a few commenters said they believe this woman did this purposely so she could sue.

I know right? I mean I did nothing while watching my dad die of a heart attack hoping to sue EMS for not getting there in time.

like I said before, it all balances it out in the end. among my other sayings. (ex, the Irish and the Italians and 9/11, if I knew then...)

I'm with you fuboy.

wow, anyway I hope there's videotape of this somewhere before the cops get to it. we already have one eyewitness who bravely came forward.

like I said before, If I knew then on 9/11 what I know now, I would have walked those few blocks south.

Shut the F up.