several years ago , andrei obashin and his friends, volgograd doctors, proposed to consider the datef ambulance workers, those who, once arriving, remain forever in this difficult, nervous work that requires enormous knowledge. make decisions quickly and have patience. doctor ekaterina khakhlova tells how her team came to the aid of a paramedic who was trying to resuscitate a man in a state of clinical death. we rocked him, all this was silent, i have a telepathic, one might say, connection with my felcher. she pumps, i do artificial ventilation, the paramedic who called us administers medications. here , during cardiopulmonary resuscitation , the patient’s voice is heard, so through the silence, stop beating me, sometimes with humor, but always with extraordinary modesty, they talk about how they brought patients back to life, a call to a two-year-old baby with edema of the larynx andrei obashin remembered it for the rest of his life ; as he says now, there were no such instruments at that time, only a scalpel, a piece of alcohol tube was at hand, he made an incision over the trache