Two soccer parents Alana Langdon and Gerry Stead were given recognition by the Canadian humanitarian charitable organization for providing CPR and first aid to a boy who was stabbed in the neck. The incident happened on a soccer field in Conception Bay South. They were given Rescuer Awards for performing life saving measures such as first aid and CPR until paramedics arrived.
Life-saving technique
An 11-year-old boy was stabbed in the neck during an evening soccer camp. His arteries were cut during a stabbing at a soccer pitch in Conception Bay. According to a humanitarian charitable organization, Garry Stead, a parent of another player and Alana Langdon, a nurse and also a parent of another player provided CPR and first aid on the boy. The paramedics arrived and continued providing CPR and first aid to the boy and immediately brought to the hospital for further treatment. The boy had several surgeries for 16 months.
Garry Stead recalled, he was watching his own children play that night, he was holding the boy with his arm and the other arm trying to stop the bleeding in the neck while the boy is in and out of consciousness. According to Stead his action was completely a reaction what every parent would do for child who is suffering from pain. Another parent Alana Langdon, a nurse provided first aid by using her mitten to help apply pressure on the neck of the boy that is bleeding severely.
A man named Nicholas Layman was charged with attempted murder, but released because he was not responsible for the stabbing.
The two soccer parents’ rescuers dedicated their awards to the young boy, who was present in the ceremony together with his parents and friends. According to the mother of the boy, the jugular and carotid artery of the boy were severely injured and surgeons had to remove a vein from his leg and put it in his damaged neck. A large pink scar marks can be seen in front of his neck. The boy has totally recovered and returned to playing soccer again. The parents of the boy were grateful and thanked the two parents for saving their son’s life.
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