at North Shore University Hospital<\/a>, got her stricken son \u2014 who was previously undiagnosed \u2014 into the car and began driving to the medical facility after he had awoke in the night crying in agony without \u201ca single symptom of anything.\u201d<\/p>\nJack suddenly lost all of his air halfway into the 10-minute drive, forcing his mom to make to an impossible choice: pull over to give him CPR or keep rushing to Huntington Hospital.<\/p>\n
Carlin decided to continue to the ER, knowing immediate resuscitation wouldn\u2019t be enough, given Jack would need rapid intubation among other urgent procedures.<\/p>\n
\u201cI heard him slump over. I went to look back, and God said, \u2018Maria, don\u2019t look back. You made your decision. You\u2019re not going to be able to handle seeing him right now,\u2019 \u201d she recalled, fighting back tears.<\/p>\n
\u201cKnowing that you have a child in the back of your car who\u2019s not breathing and needs CPR and not doing that for them \u2014 I don\u2019t wish that scenario on my worst enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carlin made the critical decision to drive Jack to the hospital instead of stopping to give him CPR. Courtesy of Maria Carlin<\/p>\n
Carlin blared her car horn as she pulled up the car to the doors of ER, and a team of doctors and nurses flew into action over Jack, who was now in cardiac arrest and without a heartbeat.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just saw this lifeless kid who had no pulse, who looked blue,\u201d said emergency-room Dr. Jennifer\u00a0Gibb, who rushed to Jack after hearing Carlin \u201cscreaming.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know she was a nurse at the time,\u201d Gibb said of Carlin.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI heard her saying, \u2018Come on, Jack,\u2019 and that\u2019s my son\u2019s name. It sends chills through your spine when you\u2019re helping this little child that could be your own,\u201d said Gibb of her own 11-year-old son.<\/p>\n
Jack\u2019s pulse returned after the doctors and nurses worked on him for almost 10 minutes. <\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t even explain what that feeling is like when you know that your child\u2019s heart is beating again,\u201d Carlin said.<\/p>\n
Jack was diagnosed with a laryngeal cleft, which can cause mucus or fluid to block airflow. Courtesy of Maria Carlin<\/p>\n
Jack was transferred to Cohen Children\u2019s Medical Center a few hours later.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been working here for 13 years, and I really only had a pediatric arrest like that, maybe about five times,\u201d Gibb said.<\/p>\n
Further examinations showed he had a\u00a0laryngeal cleft, which impacts between 10,000 and 20,000 annual births, according to Northwell.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an abnormal opening in the back of the voice box that separates the voice box from the esophagus,\u201d said Dr. Lee Smith, Cohen\u2019s chief of pediatric otolaryngology. <\/p>\n
Jack painting in a hospital room during his recovery. Courtesy of Maria Carlin<\/p>\n
Jack\u2019s rare condition only impacts between 10,000 and 20,000 annual births. Courtesy of Maria Carlin<\/p>\n
Mucus or fluids can block airflow as a result of the \u201cextremely uncommon\u201d occurrence.<\/p>\n
The boy\u2019s dire situation was even more incredibly unique, according to Smith, who later performed his corrective surgery with no complications.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never seen that before. \u2026 This was an extremely unusual and severe presentation,\u201d Smith said of the boy losing lethal amounts of air.<\/p>\n
Carlin credits the frontline workers at Huntington Hospital for saving her son. Dennis A. Clark<\/p>\n
Jack is now a happy, healthy pre-K-enrolled kid who, along with his mom, dad and siblings Luke and Emma, makes up a family incredibly grateful to the frontline workers who brought about their happy ending.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe survival rate of a child going into cardiac arrest outside of a hospital is terrifyingly low,\u201d Carlin said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter everything happened, I turned to my husband, and I was just like, \u2018We\u2019re going to Disney World. This child is going to experience Disney World.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n
Jack at Disney World during a family vacation after his miracle recovery. Courtesy of Maria Carlin<\/p>\n
Jack told The Post he enjoyed his vacation and is happy in pre-K. Courtesy of Maria Carlin<\/p>\n
The Carlin family just returned from the Happiest Place on Earth, where Jack and his siblings and their dad Stewart got their fill of the magic they deserve after the mid-summer ordeal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really liked the Slinky ride,\u201d Jack told The Post.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I love being in school.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A terrified Long Island mom\u2019s quick-thinking but devastatingly painful choice helped save the life of her toddler son…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4207,68,2953,1948,776,25922,57,9,11,10,22197],"class_list":["post-45300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-children","tag-exclusive","tag-health","tag-hospitals","tag-long-island","tag-medical-miracles","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-northwell-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}