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Taras Zvir, who recently started driving for Uber, raised passenger Justin Anderson in Philadelphia on February 25
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At the end of the ride to Bucks County, State, Anderson suffered what was later identified as cerebral hemorrhage
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Zvir, a former ambulance driver, administers Anderson’s CPR until EMS arrived and took him to the hospital
A man from Philadelphia, who just recently started working as a Uber driver, helped save his passenger’s life by experiencing cerebral hemorrhage.
“I feel that everyone would do it,” the 38 -year -old Taras Zvir from northern freedoms humbly tells people about his heroic work. “I don’t know. I guess I was raised to help. You just do it. You don’t think about it, you just do it.”
On the morning of February 25, Zvir, who drives for Uber as a side concert while launching his own company, raised a passenger named Justin Anderson, 41 -year -old, in Philadelphia. Anderson’s destination was Bucks County, where his work was located.
“We just started talking about music and other things,” Zvir recalls about the 45-minute ride. “And he mentioned that he [drove for] Uber too. So we just talked about it for a while. “
As they listened to music and approaching the end of the trip, Zvir noticed that Anderson’s head tilted and he looked as if he were “suffocating.”
“His head was falling up and down, but he was still communicating,” Zvir recalls. “I was [like]”Justin, are you okay? Do you need something? I immediately turned the windows, blew my a/c to try to see if it would make him feel a little better. But he just worsened and he did not react in the end.”
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Zvir immediately called 911 and described Anderson’s symptoms of the dispatcher, who told him that he should immediately execute Anderson’s CPR. Fortunately, Zvir knew CPR from his time as a former ambulance driver.
“I was running around the car,” he says. “I opened the door, put it flat, made sure that his head was not hitting the concrete because he had no support or something. So after I put it flat, I just started to do CPR and do it for maybe six to eight minutes.”
To his relief, Zvir heard the sounds of siren in the distance as he continued to execute the life -saving measure of Anderson. He then stopped when EMS arrived.
“They started working on it immediately,” Zvir recalls. “They made Narkan. They were not sure if it was an overdose with drugs or emergency medical attention, so I guess they had to cover everything.”
Anderson’s mother, Deborah, later wrote on Gofundme that her son had suffered spontaneous cerebral hemorrhage. CT, conducted after he was admitted to the hospital, showed a lot of bleeding from the right part of his brain. She added that her son had undergone a craniotomy procedure to ease the pressure on his brain.
“Justin is diagnosed with subdural hematoma (brain bleeding), which is determined to be due to AV fistula (an abnormal connection between the artery and a vein) with which he was most likely to be born, but never knew there was,” Deborah wrote.
“As a result of the amount of blood from the subdural hematoma, pressure was given to his brain, which caused a change in the midline and some damage to the brain tissue,” she continued.
At that time, Anderson remained unconscious, but made some progress. In an update on March 29, Deborah wrote that her son was able to blink his eyes twice when he asked him two questions.
“This has never happened,” she wrote. “Definitely gives me more hope.”
Deborah said Anderson is the father of a 17-year-old girl and has just started a new job during his emergency in medicine. She said it was the happiness that her son was not alone when he suffered the bleeding.
“If he was home alone, he wouldn’t be here today,” she writes. “If it wasn’t at the back of this Uber, he wouldn’t be here today. He was only in Uber because he had to get home from work with his definitions of work. Otherwise he would drive his own car. I am also grateful for the quick response to the Uber driver to call 911.”
Zvir says he was in connection with Deborah and hopes to see her son when he improved
“I definitely want to meet him,” he tells Anderson. “And too, I just want to make sure he is recovering. Yesterday I sent a message to his mother just to get an update to him. So I keep in touch with his family and I hope he gets out.”
Gofundme, created by Anderson’s mother, hopes to raise money to pay for her son’s medical bills and other expenses. People turned to Deborah Anderson for comment.
Looking back, Zvir says he didn’t think what he did was something special. “I saw someone need help and I just helped. That’s all,” he says.
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