The David Knight Show - Game-Changing Device Saving Thousands from Choking Deaths!

Episode Date: April 11, 2025

     With choking claiming 5,000 lives yearly a simple yet lifesaving invention by Arthur Lih has already saved nearly 4,000 lives, including 3,000 children! Unlike the Heimlich maneuver, which can fail with kids, wheelchair users, or larger individuals, LifeVac’s plunger-like design effortlessly clears airways in seconds. From a 15-month-old to a 97-year-old, this universal device works for all ages, lasts forever, and even comes with a free replacement if used.     Don’t wait for tragedy to strike…LifeVac.netIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @[e-mail] App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTFor 10% off supplements and books, go to RNCstore.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

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, I mentioned it before, it is to help people in a choking situation. The company, by the way, is life vac dot net. Uh, 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. So tell us a little bit about that, Arthur. Well, first of all, thank you. Thanks for having me on as we get the word out there about like back.

We saved more lives. I think we've heard, we saved nine lives yesterday, but it's a very, like you said, very simple device. It's basically a plunger. And if you've done the high leg 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 quick tug and it'll pull out whatever was choking it. And to date we're coming up on 4,000 people saved and coming up on 3, 3000 children that have been saved with life back from a choking emergency. Well, that's like, excuse me.

I'm not choking here. I just, I am. I got you. Yeah. If you can send one of those to the pipes there, that'd be great. Sorry. Yeah. Uh, tell us a little bit about that because, you know, Heimlich maneuver

can be difficult. The maneuvers you point out, if you've got somebody who's overweight, you can't get your arms around them, or if they're in a wheelchair. What was it that got you interested in making the device to do this? Well, it was 13 years ago. My daughter was seven years old and I was visiting a friend in the hospital and he pointed over at the gurney and he just said the last time he was there, a seven-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, the 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 is apparent, 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 wra wrappers to, um, pieces of tape, uh, all sorts of,

uh, 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, uh, 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 gonna 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. We've, the other day we saved, two days ago, we saved a 15-month

old and a 97-year-old in the same day. And we made it that way. Yeah, I know. We made it to cover your entire family. It lasts forever, so it's not one of those gimmicks where you got to buy one every year because it expires. Covers your entire family, kids and adults. Uh, 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. Wow.

That's, that's a great, you know, of course you never think about that. If you're alone, uh, there's no way that you can do the Heimlich maneuver on yourself as there's nobody around. If you've got one of those things that it helps. How much is it? Yeah. Uh, 69 95. Okay. That's great.

Yeah. We tried to keep it reasonable. You can usually find a fine and it lasts forever and it covers your whole family. You know, 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 made it last forever so that, you know, 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 that, you know, we've had seven-year-old life facts save a life. They've had it in the land.

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 on an adult. They will 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.

We look at it, it's like having a fire extinguisher or some other things like that, except 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 just 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 got a lot of media saved live inside edition has saved over a hundred something Mike Roe, Brian Killmeat, Mike is at 22, Brian's at 32, Joel Biscobo his show has saved lives and yeah the 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 with that, right? It's 5000 a year. It's the fourth leading

cause of accidental death just behind car accidents. So it 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 gonna 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 a 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. That's a, it is amazing. I didn't know that that many people died every year. A lot more than bird flu, for example. So it's a, I mean, they get everybody panicking about the wrong stuff. You know, they be looking at where the real risk is and that is a real risk. Yeah. Yeah.

Well it's great having you on. You know, our passion is schools and special. Our passion is I give one free to every school in America. We lose about seven kids a year, choke to death in school, and you know, we have EpiPens and fire equipment, and that's great, but no one passed away from that last year. But like you said, we have to address the primary problems, you know. Think about it. In the schools, you're eating fast, your 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 are disabled our artists are disability

community where you're in a wheelchair you you can't get your arms around them that they just choke they have no policy no protocol so I think as Americans as people you know we have have a 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, you know, pick up that awareness that they have nothing and that's not right. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. It's not something that you're going to necessarily carry around with you at a restaurant or something.

But if we'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. And so I think that's a really wise thing. It's, again, 5,000 people a year that are choking to death, that 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. And especially if you've got somebody in your family that is young or disabled, that is really important. So, yeah, 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 happened,

things happened, but this doesn't have to happen. No kid has to joke to death in school anymore. So, we all got to shout about it. And, and as I say, just keep going. That's right. That's right. Yeah, It's a preparedness and we have to make that kind of preparation. I know 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 the Heimlich maneuver or something like that. So again, the website is life vac. That's a life V a 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. Yes. That's key. But I appreciate you and your show will save a life. So that's cool. Thank you. I hope so.