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Podcast: The WOR Saturday Morning Show with Larry Mendte
Episode: Larry and Arthur Lih inventor of LIFEVAC.net discuss the device and its milestone of 3,000 lives saved
Description: The vision of LifeVac came from a story that Arthur Lih, founder and CEO of LifeVac, heard of a woman in a hospital weeping following the death of her young son. The reason for his death was that a grape had become lodged in his windpipe and the Heimlich Maneuver did not work. Once he heard the story he set out to invent an apparatus that could clear an airway. Arthur, Dr. Brody, and a few close friends set out to bring LifeVac to the public by establishing a research and development facility located in Springfield Gardens, NY where we are...