A young Girl Scout saved her father’s life by using CPR just days after learning CPR.
Vada Caravan, 11, sprang into action after watching her father, Clint Caravan, suffer a heart attack on the floor of their home in Virginia, just 11 days after she first practiced CPR on a dummy during a Girl Scout training session Was. WAVY reported.
“Of course, it was scary,” Wada said, recalling that the initial panic caused her to forget her new life-saving skills. “And I started crying and I thought, ‘What do I do?’ Like, I was in complete shock for a minute. And then I said, ‘Heart attack…heart attack, 911,'” she told the outlet about last month’s scare.
“Maggie, my dog, was very nervous,” Vada said. “She was trying to wake him up, like, putting her paw in there, like trying to wake him up.”
Once she realized the seriousness of the situation, Vada began chest compressions while speaking on the phone with the paramedics, helping them revive her father.
“It’s hard to put into words because it was so scary,” Wada told the outlet. Comparing her former training situation with the Virginia Beach Girl Scouts, she said, “I think I was a little weak because it’s not the same to do it on a dummy because it’s not your dad.”
“I was actually the only person in my entire class to successfully save our dummy because when you do CPR, there’s a light on the dummy, and if it’s green, you’re doing it correctly,” Wada told the outlet. Have been.”
“Just set your mind to what you want to do,” Vada explained. “I definitely don’t think you’re too young for anything,” she said.
Vada is now receiving praise from first responders and her mother, who credit her with saving her father’s life.
“She has to be her hero,” Vada’s mother Amanda Caravan told the outlet.
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