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| موضوع: Santa Cruz woman saves her dog with CPR الجمعة يونيو 18, 2010 1:02 am | |
| Santa Cruz woman saves her dog with CPR
SANTA CRUZ — After seeing her dog hanging from outside a car window in May, a Santa Cruz woman used CPR to save its life.Janet Rosenberg, a real estate broker in Santa Cruz County, used the technique of doing chest compressions and breathing into the animal's nose to bring it back from the brink of death."I ran screaming to the car," Rosenberg said, about seeing Pearl, her Italian greyhound, hanging by the neck on a tether that was supposed to keep her secure inside the car.One month later, Pearl is back to enjoying a normal life of frolicking in her large backyard and Rosenberg is trying to spread the word that CPR is not just for humans.Rosenberg often has Pearl in the car with her, in a harness designed specifically to hook dogs into an existing seat belt. While a client was touring a home at noon on May 15, Rosenberg ducked out to check on Pearl and found her hanging from the window. As a former hospital employee who had learned CPR, Rosenberg unhooked the dog from the harness, put her in the back seat and began doing mouth-to-mouth breathing, covering Pearl's nose and mouth with hers."A couple of times I stopped, and just thought she was gone," Rosenberg said.But eventually, Pearl's legs began to flick and she began to pant. Rosenberg put Pearl in the front seat and sped to the closest veterinary clinic in Soquel while continuing compressions. At the hospital, Pearl's eyes looked in opposite directions, but it seemed the CPR was a success.Pearl was lucky. According to the Veterinary Information Network, a link between patients and veterinarians, CPR on pets is not often successful."I was sure they were going to come back and tell me that she had died," Rosenberg said.After a followup at an emergency veterinary clinic, Pearl began to walk around and wag her tail as she normally did, said Rosenberg, and the two were released.At Chanticleer Veterinary Hospital a few days later, Pearl was still acting normally, said Rosenberg.Dr. Jennifer Condreay, Pearl's regular veterinarian, checked for sings of brain damage and eye injuries, and said, "I would not have known had Rosenberg not told me about it." Condreay said dogs are safer in kennels than in restraints, and Rosenberg no longer tethers Pearl to the car, and brings her inside the office."She is my best friend," Rosenberg said of her shelter adoptee. "I brought her home and the rest is history." If You Go Pet first aid classes
Where: American Red Cross, 2960 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz When: 9 a.m.- 12 p.m., June 26; 6-9. p.m., July 8 and 6-9 p.m. Aug. 12. Information: For pet first aid classes contact your local red cross chapter at [ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]
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