The Last Breath of Life: Doctors’ mad race against time to revive a dog, limbs still intact, precious life hanging by a thread.
Colυmbυs Firefighter Deputy Johп Wiseпbarger was in the middle of his work in Fraпkliпtoп, Ohio, when someone began banging on the station door around 11:30 p.m.
It was a woman named April Speakmaп who was asking for help and maintaining that Wiseпbarger thought that she was a baby and a mother.
He told her to quickly go to the medical truck that was around the corner, where doctors Johп Hagaп and Mike Caпter were working.
The doctors discovered that inside the mother there was a child, but also a puppy that needed serious medical attention.
Speakmaп and his puppy, a 12-week-old German shepherd/bull mastiff mix named Elo, was given to walking around Elo picked up the piece of plastic that was on his face. Speakmaп quickly removed the plastic from his mouth and took off his shirt.
But when he got home, he was himself. He started acting strange and suddenly fainted and went completely limp. He was barely breathing and Speakmaп knew something was wrong.
He took him to the other side of the street where his friends worked and tried to splash him with water, but it didn’t help. Then his breathing stopped and his leg hung from his mouth.
Then Speakman ran up the street toward the fire station.
He had respiratory depression, which is more commonly known as having shallow breathing. Doctors will take advantage of their prior training and quickly assess the situation.
“The puppy’s pupils did not react either and were somewhat contracted for fear of the late hour,” said doctor Johп Hagaп. “Fear of the symptoms and the fact that the puppy was unresponsive to verbal and physical stimuli, these are class signs of opioid overdose.”
Doctors used a pediatric obsessive mask to administer the overdose reversal drug Narcaп, which is safe and effective for dogs, to the pup. He also gave her oxygen.