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April 11, 2025 - The David Knight Show
11:57
Game-Changing Device Saving Thousands from Choking Deaths!
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i want to tell people about your product thank you for joining us am i pronouncing your name correctly is the last name lee is that the way it's pronounced yes sir okay
good yeah tell us a little bit about your product here this is um i mentioned it before it is to help people uh in a
The company, by the way, is LifeVac.net.
Tell us a little bit about the product that you developed there.
You're the CEO, the inventor, the founder of the company, and again, your name is Arthur Lee.
Tell us a little bit about that, Arthur.
Well, first off, thank you.
Thanks for having me on.
As we get the word out there about LifeVac, we save more lives.
I think we saved nine lives yesterday.
It's a very, like you said, very simple device.
It's basically a plunger.
And if you've done the Heimlich and it's not worked, or you can't get your arms around the person, or they're in a wheelchair, numerous reasons that it will not work or cannot be done, the light back is as simple as you place it on the person, you push it down,
the air will vent out the side so it won't push it further down, and you quick tug, and it'll pull out whatever was choking you.
And to date, we're coming up on 4,000 people saved and coming up on 3,000 children that have been saved with life back from a choking emergency.
That's actually...
Excuse me.
I'm not choking here.
I just...
I got you.
Yeah, if you can send one of those through the pipes there, that'd be great.
Sorry. Yeah.
Tell us a little bit about that because, you know, Heimlich maneuver can be difficult.
To maneuver, as you point out, if you've got somebody who's overweight and can't get your arms around them, or if they're in a wheelchair, what was it that got you interested in making a device to do this?
Well, it was 13 years ago.
My daughter was 7 years old, and I was visiting a friend in the hospital, and he pointed over at the gurney, and he said the last time he was there, a 7-year-old had been on that gurney that had choked to death.
And I'd taken the course.
I was not aware that it didn't always work or that it had a high failure ratio, particularly in children.
And I was really scared, actually.
Because, you know, once you know, you know.
And I was now aware that if my child choked, there was a chance my techniques weren't going to work.
So I wanted to save her.
That was my first goal, was to save her.
And then I felt obligated to bring it to the world.
That's great because, you know, we have with children, young children, that's what we're looking at.
We've got a young grandson and we're constantly looking at what the choking dangers are for children.
And as you point out, that's where it's really difficult.
You know, children are some of the highest risk for choking and it's very difficult to do that.
That's why if you have something like this, I guess as a parent, it'd be very helpful.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, and the other thing that, you know, as we went through the last 13 years, the stuff they choke on, they choke on, the number one thing they choke on is plastic.
And it's anything from toys, but to wrappers, to pieces of tape, all sorts of plastic that they find.
They're always putting stuff in their mouth, you know.
And the younger they are, the more that's the issue.
Well, the thing is, there's a couple of physiological things.
Very small windpipe.
It's about the size of your pinky.
So they can choke on things that we cannot, you know, that we would swallow or expel.
They also have very little lungs.
So when you're trying to get some force out of compression, be it a back blow or chest compression, you know, you're dealing with a very low volume of air.
So, the ineffectiveness is based by physics, you know, that they have a smaller windpipe, so it'll clog more often, and you're not dealing with a lot of air to generate force to pop it out.
And that's why I'd say, you know, somewhere in the 65% of our saves is children.
Wow, wow.
And now, if you're talking about a very young child who's also going to be putting a lot of stuff in their mouth, What about the difference in the size of the face?
Do you have different attachments, or does this somehow range over a large variety?
Yeah, every kid comes with a pediatric mask and an adult mask.
So it's universal, zero.
The other day we saved, two days ago, we saved a 15-month-old.
And a 97-year-old in the same day.
We made it that way.
We made it to cover your entire family.
It lasts forever, so it's not one of those gimmicks where you've got to buy one every year because it expires.
It covers your entire family, kids and adults.
You can use it on yourself, which we've had many saves like that.
And if you ever use it, we give you a free one.
Wow. That's great.
Of course, you never think about that.
If you're alone, there's no way that you can do the Heimlich maneuver on yourself if there's nobody around.
If you've got one of those things, it helps.
How much is it?
Yeah. $69.95.
Okay, that's great.
We try to keep it reasonable.
You can usually find...
And it lasts forever, and it covers your whole family.
I don't know.
Making a medical product in the U.S. is not inexpensive.
There's a lot of regulations and cost.
But we've made it last forever so that if you had to buy one every year, it was cheaper.
It wouldn't take you long to go over what you need.
More importantly, it's more ethical.
We've had seven-year-old life facts save a life.
It's something that you went to get it and it quote-unquote expired and your child died or your loved one died.
So that was the reasoning behind it.
That's great.
And of course, you know, a young teenager or something could use it.
An adult, they would not have the power to do that.
It's not just, you know, like we said, getting your arms around, but having the strength as well.
It's really a preparedness thing.
I think.
When we look at it, it's like having a fire extinguisher or some other things like that, except, you know, it's something that is far more potentially, has a greater potential for being fatal if you were choking on it.
So, especially if you've got young children around that are going to be liable to put things in their mouth, that's a great idea.
I really like this.
When I saw that, I really wanted to get you on because I thought, well, you know, some people could wind up, as you point out, saving their life.
You've had 3,800 and something lives saved so far.
So, that's a great thing.
Well, we've had a lot of media saved lives.
Inside Edition has saved over a hundred and something.
Mike Rowe, Brian Kilmeade, Mike is at 22, Brian's at 32. Joel Biscobo, his show has saved lives.
And, yeah, getting the word out will definitely save a life.
But the thing that most shocked me right in the beginning was how many people choked to death, right?
It's 5,000 a year.
It's the fourth leading cause of accidental death just behind car accidents.
So it's slips and falls, car accidents, poisonings, choking.
So that's what, when I first heard about it, I was like, you know, who knew?
You know, who knew that 16 people are going to choke to death today?
So I think that's a big part of it too, you know, raising the awareness to get training and, you know, like you said, you got a family or there's maybe, you know, you're Bigger person, smaller, you know.
I was at a party and the wife put her hands and she was laughing how she couldn't get her arms around her husband.
And then she looked at me like, holy cow, I can't get my arms around my husband.
It was a moment of awareness.
That's great.
Yeah. It is amazing.
I didn't know that that many people died every year.
A lot more than bird flu, for example.
They get everybody panicking about the wrong stuff.
They'll be looking at where the real risk is, and that is a real risk.
Well, it's great having you on.
Our passion is schools and special...
I give one free to every school in America.
We lose about seven kids a year, choke to death in school.
We have EpiPens and fire equipment, and that's great, but no one I passed away from that last year.
But like you said, we have to address the primary problems.
Think about it.
In the school, you're eating fast, you're little kids, you're joking around.
Every year we lose kids in school that don't have to be lost.
And that's why I give one free.
And then the special needs.
Our veterans, our disabled, our disability community, where you're in a wheelchair, you can't get your arms around them.
They just choke.
They have no policy, no protocol.
So I think as Americans, as people, we have choice, right?
You can get it for your family or not, and I understand.
But I think for our schools and our veterans, disabled veterans and our special needs, that we all need to pick up that awareness that they have nothing, and that's not right.
That's right.
Yeah, it's not something that you're going to necessarily carry around with you at a restaurant or something like that, but if you've got young children, you've got people who are disabled at home, and if enough people have these things in enough different places, if the restaurants had them, that would be a huge thing.
I think that's a really wise thing.
Again, 5,000 people a year that are choking to death.
You could have a big chunk taken out of that with this device.
Thank you for doing that.
That is a really interesting idea and I really wanted to get that out to the audience.
There's not anything, we're not selling this on this program or anything like that.
There's no tie about that.
I just saw that and I thought that could save somebody's life.
Especially if you've got somebody in your family that is young or disabled, that is really important.
Thank you.
And again...
You know what?
That's how we change.
We all pitch in and share, and I greatly appreciate your voice, because that's how we make a difference.
That's how we fix things.
You know, 16 people dying that don't have to, that's the big problem, right?
You know, tragedy happens, things happen, but this doesn't have to happen.
No kid has to choke to death in school anymore, so we all gotta shout about it, and as I say, just keep going.
That's right.
That's right.
It's preparedness, and we have to make that kind of preparation.
Somebody learns CPR, they learn the Heimlich Maneuver, they're doing preparation.
If you get this, you're also doing preparation, but you're also extending the ability of being able to do it that's even beyond what you could do with a Heimlich Maneuver or something like that.
So again, the website is LifeVac.
That's LifeVac.net.
LifeVac.net.
And so you can see that there.
That's a really great idea, and thank you so much for doing that.
Thank you for bringing that to our attention.
Arthur, I hope you sell a lot of these things.
I think it is really important.
Thank you.
I hope we save a lot of lives, so that's the key.
But I really appreciate you, and your show will save a life, so that's cool.
Thank you.
I hope so.
Thank you so much.
We're going to take a quick break, folks, and we'll be right back.
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