Over 6000 lives have been saved by the LifeVac product since its launch in 2014 and the number has no reason that it shouldn’t continue to grow. The product has FDA authorization with all the resources for it to be readily available but it is not currently a requirement in high risk choking areas like a school cafeteria. Arthur Lih, founder inventor and CEO of LifeVac, joined Curtis Sliwa and Larry Mendte in the Morning live in studio to talk about how his life saving product works.
“It’s a plunger with a mask; so you put it over your face, and air vents out the side so it won’t push it any further in, and when you pull it, it creates a suction and sucks out the object,” Lih told hosts Sliwa and Mendte. “The goal was to make it super simple.”
Lih wants help getting political officials to make it a requirement: “I’ve done everything I could, it’s 69 bucks, it lasts forever, if you use it I’ll give you a free one, I give one free to any school, we’ve given away 10,000 of them; I want your kid to come home.”