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~ Office of the Founder, Jeffrey Dobkin ~
Box 100 · Merion Station, PA 19066
610/642-1000
I have developed an emergency technique to delay brain damage and death
in Sudden Cardiac Arrest victims.
Thanks for taking a few moments to read this.
Not everyone has the opportunity to offer the kind of help I can offer to such a huge community of people. I’ll explain.
I’m the founder of the Brain Injury Foundation. www.BrainInjuryFoundation.org
Our 501c3 non-profit status was approved 13 years ago.
I don’t much like heading-up a non-profit. I thought I would, but I don’t.
I don’t really like pitching people and firms for money, grants and donations. But with your help we can save a lot of lives. Using my Technique, lives will be saved – from day one.
Exactly who’s life can I save? I can save the life of a person who has a heart attack. A Sudden Cardiac Arrest. And save their families from the sadness death or brain damage a Sudden Cardiac Arrest brings about. I can save dads and moms, and spare their children from the devastation of losing a parent prematurely.
Specifically I can save people from Hypoxic (low oxygen) Ischemic (low blood flow) brain damage. This is the permanent, irreversible brain damage that occurs when your brain doesn’t receive oxygen for more than a few minutes. Yes, a very few minutes. 3 to 5 minutes. It’s a short window. That’s the window of life you get with a Sudden Cardiac Arrest.
I didn’t want to start a foundation and struggle for money and public awareness, but: what would you do if you knew you could save people from brain damage and death? If you knew you could save thousands of lives? Maybe tens of thousands of lives – each year?
You’d do the same as I. You’d keep trying to save as many people as you could with the resources you had. That’s what I’m doing. Trying to save people from brain damage and death.
THIS IS NOT A PERSONAL STORY
I don’t have a personal story about brain injury.
No tragedy. No one in my family has brain damage, and I don’t know anyone who has.
It’s almost unimaginable to me that I have spent 35 years researching this specific field of anoxic (no oxygen) brain injury. For no other reason than I was just curious.
I was driven to do this research by my own intellectual curiosity. My area of research, and now my area of expertise is delaying hypoxic (without oxygen) ischemic (low blood flow) brain injury – of which a major cause is Sudden Cardiac Arrest.
Each year over 295,000 people experience a Sudden Cardiac Arrest. This is the type of heart attack where your heart just stops. No warning. It just shuts down all at once.
The survival rate for Sudden Cardiac Arrest victims is under 5%. So… over 95% of these victims never reach a hospital alive. 95 people out of every 100 die right there, on the spot. Of the 5% that survive, permanent brain damage is not unusual.
The tragedy is that these are the people my research can help.
Specifically, through my years of research I have developed an emergency technique to delay brain damage and death in Sudden Cardiac Arrest victims.
Saving Sudden Cardiac Arrest victims from permanent brain damage is the reason for all the hours I’ve spent in research. I didn’t know that when I started. Or for most of my early research days, either. I know that now.
So that you know who I am…
Here are a few short paragraphs about myself:I’ve been kicking around the marketing, publishing and writing fields for quite a while. I’ve reached a good level of success: never making millions, but never starving either.
I live in a fine house in Bala-Cynwyd, PA., drive a Tesla on most days, and occasionally ride in on a pretty old motorcycle when it’s nice out and when the electrics on it work. I had a wonderful wife of 35 years, and have three bright and happy children: two girls are in in New York City, one is an assistant professor and finishing her doctoral studies at Columbia, the other is a media buyer, and my son is a music producer in Nashville.
I’ve been a marketing guy for longer than I can remember – or care to discuss. I specialize in direct marketing and as you can imagine since The Brain Injury Foundation has been funded by myself, most of the money to create greater public awareness of my Technique has been used in direct marketing. Like this website you’re visiting.
Somewhere along the way I’ve written 5 books on marketing and two on humor. I’d be happy to email you any of my books on request. They can be seen at JeffreyDobkin.com Just ask.
I’ve spoken at over 100 marketing seminars, have been on the radio way more than that; and my articles on direct marketing have been featured in more than 300 magazines. If you Google Direct Marketing Articles, I used to be on the first page. Now it’s all ads, so I’m on page 3 or 4. Go ahead, look it up – I’ll wait…
OK, that’s enough about me.
Here’s why I’m writing, and why I’m asking you for a donation. It’s simple, really – you can help save lives, too. A lot of lives. Starting today. Your contribution is an investment in change. To change the way things are now: a change for the 95% of the people who die from a Sudden Cardiac Arrest within 5 minutes of the initial insult.
Through years of research I’ve discovered a simple way to delay brain damage in heart attack victims. Now, the research is completed and my new mission is to get my technique known to as many people as possible. Which turns out to be a lot of work, and expensive. There’s a lot of people out there. And there is a cost associated with reaching each person.
The Beginning, the history of my research…
It all started over 35 years ago, in 1977. I read an article in Newsweek Magazine of a young boy falling in cold water and drowning. When they recovered his body after almost an hour of complete submersion and resuscitated him, he recovered completely – to lead a normal life.
He suffered no brain damage. Even after not breathing for almost an hour. How??
How I wondered…
I had heard – and current theory still prevails – that if someone is deprived of oxygen for 4 or 5 minutes, irreversible brain damage starts to occur. But… if this is true, how could this recovery happen? Why didn’t this child have anoxic (no oxygen) brain injury? There was certainly no oxygen reaching his brain for 40 minutes while he lay submerged in the icy waters.
For years I thought about this incident, over and over. Like my passion for music and motorcycles, it became a recurring theme in my life. Falling in cold water… drowning; recovering with no brain damage. I became obsessed with wonder.
So along with my day job of direct marketing, writing and consulting with clients, I spent my nights and weekends in research deep in the back rooms of the libraries around Philadelphia.
Who ever thought I’d be a… well… geek? Yet there I was – the geek who did research of Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (low oxygen low blood flow brain injury) driven by his own personal intellectual curiosity.
There I was – night after night – in the aging annals of old magazines, microfiche files and smelly yellowed papers at the Free Library in downtown Philadelphia.
It was years before the Internet. I spent quite a lot of time researching in those back rooms – and other area libraries, too — like the Thomas Jefferson University Medical School Library and the University of Pennsylvania Medical Library.
It was way before fax machines, too, so I received studies on Hypoxic (low oxygen) Ischemic (low blood flow) Encephalopathy (brain injury) – or HIE – via teletype (remember those? No, not many people do!), microfiche files and international medical transcription services. This was real research, not just surfing around the web on Google for a couple of hours.
Through years of research I found other cold water drowning victims who were rescued, revived and recovered with no brain damage.
The question I kept coming back to: Why doesn’t brain damage occur to cold water drowning victims? What is it about cold water that delays the onset of brain injury in anoxic (low oxygen) events?
Never got paid, and no one said thanks. But that was OK. I spent years in dedicated research. Slowly the pieces of the puzzle emerged: what delays brain damage in cold water drowning victims.
The Answer I discovered…
What delays brain damage isn’t as much the cold water creating hypothermia — which is where most of the current thinking resides.
What delays brain damage is the physical triggering of an all-natural reflex. It’s a life-saving, oxygen-conserving reflex found in all mammals. The reflex is called the Mammalian Diving Reflex.
So… this is the specific mechanism that saves people from brain injury.
15 years or so of off and on research to find this out…
I learned that to trigger the Mammalian Diving Reflex, the temperature of the water must be 58 degrees or colder — 58 degrees is the mean temperature of the water of the world. And so that makes perfect sense – animals fall in cold water (all around the world) and cold water triggers this reflex to save them, prolonging their brain function if they fall in. It saves them from brain injury. Wow.
My research was finally, finally starting to pay off. This was a great find and a huge part of the answer I was looking for in my research.
The answer to why people survive cold water drownings with no brain damage is the triggering of the Mammalian Diving Reflex.
But how do I use that information to help people who suffer an anoxic brain injury event – like a Sudden Cardiac Arrest. I wasn’t finished yet – I needed to keep looking. I was driven to do more research. Back to the library.
The second piece of the puzzle came much later.
Research hours turned into days, days into weeks then months. Years passed. More library time. More research articles requested and read. With a medical dictionary in one hand and a microfiche reader in the other, more library time and more research. Fueled by the encouraging results of my earlier research, I continued.
I can’t remember exactly when, because I’m writing this now in 2023, and the initial research was all a pretty long time ago and I have trouble remembering what I ate for breakfast, let alone years ago. But I remember discovering it, though. Because I, the geek that I had become, I was so excited. It was such a huge key issue.
Trigger Point
The article that contained the key piece of information:
I remember it came in on Fax paper. Yea, by this time in my research there were fax machines. I was receiving rolls of fax paper with articles printed on them. Unlike the fax machines of today, faxes were printed on rolls of thermal paper. Which of course had a shelf life at best of about 2 years. So, I probably won’t ever find that article. But I do reference it in the index of my research, if you’re curious.
I learned the Mammalian Diving Reflex was triggered when an animals FACE was immersed in cold water.
This was key. The trigger point of the Mammalian Diving Reflex was the face. Immersing the victim’s face in cold water triggers this reflex. I don’t want to say I’m getting geekier here, but this was big news to me… and pretty cool.
I kept going. More research showed me the trigger of this reflex actually travels through the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve. In English: the trigger point is the eyes and eye area of the face.
Breakthrough
It doesn’t sound like much – a few words scribbled in this report. But this was a real breakthrough. For me, it was a breathtaking moment. I had been looking for this trigger point for years. Because this is how it happens:
To trigger the Mammalian Diving Reflex apply cold water to the face of the person.
I now had a simple emergency technique to delay brain damage in victims of Hypoxic Ischemic Events (HIE). Apply cold water – 58 degrees or cooler – to their face to trigger the Mammalian Diving Reflex. Wow. My years of geekiness pays off. Well, not just quite yet.
Here is the result of 35 years of dedication and research, distilled into one sentence.
The Dobkin Technique:
To delay brain damage in Sudden Cardiac Arrest Victims,
apply cold water – a wet, cold towel compress (or ice) to the eye area of the victim’s face.
Wow.
It took me years of research and who’d have thought it would turn out to be this simple? This is The Dobkin Technique to delay brain damage in Sudden Cardiac Arrest victims.
End of Chapter one.
Chapter Two:
So now I had a simple emergency technique to delay brain damage in victims of hypoxic insults. Who exactly can this help?
Sudden Cardiac Arrest victims are cited because they are the largest body of people my technique can help. In the United States, over 295,000 people each year experience a Sudden Cardiac Arrest.
Sudden Cardiac Arrest claims a fatality rate of over 95%. Over 95% of Sudden Cardiac Arrest victims die within a few minutes of the event because their brain receives no oxygen. 5 minutes: Irreversible brain damage starts to occur.
Survival rate of Sudden Cardiac Arrest victims is under 5%.
Clearly the emergency medical services we have in place today are failing… for the 280,000 people in the U.S. who die each year within 5 minutes of the initial cardiac insult.
This is where The Dobkin Technique works – onsite – to immediately delay the onset of permanent brain injury and keep the person alive. The immediate application of cold water to the person’s face instantly delays Hypoxic Ischemic Injury – or HII – in cardiac arrest victims. English: delays brain injury from not receiving oxygen to the brain.
Where else does this work? Other oxygen deprivation events: victims of suffocation, electrical shock victims, drug overdose, warm water drowning victims, gunshot – all events where a person stops breathing. Anoxic insults.
What my years of research has brought forth is an easy-to-trigger emergency procedure to delay brain damage.
It is a time-buying technique used until proper medical help arrives and breathing is restarted. It can be performed by a child. It is easily described over the phone. It can work by itself or in conjunction with CPR or other resuscitation methods.
By using my technique immediately on-site at the anoxic insult, thousands of people suffering from Sudden Cardiac Arrest each year may be spared from the devastation of brain injury and death – even if first responders arrive significantly after the narrow 5 minute window.
In fact, this golden 5 minute window in sudden cardiac arrest victims, before the onset of brain injury may be expanded – possibly to up to several hours. Maybe more. (It varies for different circumstances and different people.)
Years after my discovery…
I was years into my research, my discoveries. I was excited. Thrilled, really. But… I got scared.
For years I kind of kept my research to myself. Kept it quiet, fearing if someone applied cold water to the face of a heart attack victim and the person died, I’d get sued. We live in a litigious society and you can sue anyone for anything, and some people do.
Over the course of time I continued my research. I sent my expanded research paper and technique to some EMT magazines and one of them published it. It was pretty exciting to see my years of research in print. Really exciting.
But I still wasn’t sure I should release my technique to delay brain death to the general public. What if, what if I got sued? I’d lose my house, car, savings.
But… what if I saved someone’s life? What would that be worth? What would that be worth to them, their family? What if it was your family. Your son or daughter? Mom or dad?
Years passed. I got married, had kids of my own. And somewhere around there I decided if my technique – The Dobkin Technique – saved someone’s life it would be worth it. Just one person’s life! It would worth the risk of getting sued – the chance to save someone’s life.
It would be worth all the money I had.
It would be worth my car. My house. Everything I owned. Somewhere after I had children of my own, I became OK with that. What if it saved one of my children from drowning? It would be worth it! How about if I save just one child. Someone’s child’s life. Or their mom or dad. Even though I didn’t know them. I came to that realization.
When I wrote my first book, How To Market A Product for Under $500, I included The Dobkin Technique as an emergency procedure to delay brain damage and death in cardiac arrest victims as a chapter about saving lives. It included my research and The Dobkin Technique. My readers could decide whether to use it or not in an emergency. Their choice. And if I got sued, well… I’d deal with that if and when it came up.
More years went by, and I subsequently published The Dobkin Technique in several more of the books I’ve written. Probably not the best place to present a life saving technique – in a marketing book, but again, if it saved just one life it would be worth it.
Things were beginning to open up with me about creating awareness and getting my technique out to more people.
Time flew by with the kids and all. To bring you speedily up to date – well, it seems like the years flew by – it’s now magically 2023. Time flies when you’re having kids, and now in 2023 I am making more of a move to bring my life-saving technique forward.
So I stopped writing and selling books. Slowed down on the marketing I do for clients (although it’s still a privilege to serve the few clients that I have.) And started to devote more time to delaying brain injury and saving people.
I focused on my research project – putting everything else on a back burner. But, I needed money to bring my life-saving technique to better public awareness, where it would do the most good.
The Beginnings
In 2010 I started a non-profit foundation so that I can receive grants and donations to continue my work in research, and get contributions and funds to raise public awareness of this lifesaving technique. With a non-profit foundation, surely it would be easy! With a non-profit foundation, the money was just supposed to come pouring in. In theory, anyhow. I’m still waiting for the funds to come in.
What I found is I don’t like asking for money. Really.
In 2011, The Brain Injury Foundation was granted approved 501c3 status, so donations are tax deductible.
Now that we’re a bonafide nonprofit, the money is just pouring in now. Wait. Wait a minute – well, what I meant was we’re still waiting for the money to come pouring in…
OK, that pretty much brings you up to date. Now I spend my days looking around for grants and occasionally asking firms and individuals for contributions. Investments, really – an investment to change the number of deaths from Sudden Cardiac Arrest down from 280,000 each year.
Major funding? Real funding? No luck so far.
Frankly, I’m not that good at writing grants; I don’t deal well with rejection, and writing for grants really sucks. I’m learning, but it’s a slow learning curve.
Did I mention I don’t like writing for grants. I don’t. And that’s where I am today. Struggling with writing for grants. Sigh…
That’s pretty much my story. It doesn’t have a great happy ending like a good book or mediocre movie, but it can. Because it’s being written in real time.
Here’s where you come in. You can help. You can add to the story. Help rewrite the ending. Rewrite it with your support. Encouragement. Donations. Funding. An investment. Here’s what you can do.
First, and this is free, you can tell your friends about this technique, and how to do it – and when.
Here are the specifics:
A person has a Heart Attack (Sudden Cardiac Arrest) and when this happens, the person suddenly falls over. And stops breathing. Or: when a person chokes. Suffocates. Drowns. And stops breathing. Here’s what to do:
IN AN EMERGENCY — If Victim is NOT BREATHING, BLUE or NO HEARTBEAT:
1. Dial 911 — Say “I need an ambulance,” briefly describe why.
Provide your name, location of the patient and phone number from where you are calling.
2. Delay Brain Injury — Immediately Use The Dobkin Technique: Apply ice cold compress (cold water, cold wet towel) to the person’s face and eyes. Continue to apply ice to their eyes and face, and also cold compress to the base of skull in back of head and neck area.
3. Follow the dispatcher’s pre-arrival instructions.
4. Stay with the person until emergency personnel arrive.
5. If you know CPR, initiate CPR immediately. At the same time apply ice cold compress to the eye and face area of the victim.
Remember, less than 5% of the 295,000 people who have a Sudden Cardiac Arrest each year reach the hospital alive. Seconds count. The immediate application of cold water to the victim’s face will increase their chance of survival, survival without brain damage. Every second counts.
Here’s where you can help more:
Help us reach more people. Public awareness is a key issue we face every day. You can make a contribution that allows us to reach out to more communities. Fund our public outreach.
Allow us the opportunity to continue our research. We have just scratched the surface. Where else can our technique to delay brain damage be employed? Maybe help stroke victims? Maybe. I know I can say it will help delay brain injury in Sudden Cardiac Arrest victims with a great degree of certainty because I spent so very much time in researching it. But stroke victims – I haven’t put in the thousands of hours research to be able to say that with confidence. But maybe further research will yield that result.
Allow us new research. Sponsor our research and test trials – let us prove to the world, and the skeptical, how we can save Sudden Cardiac Arrest victims – and their families – from the horrific permanent brain damage that occurs.
So this is a request for funding. Your donation counts. Each donation counts. Ever dollar counts. Thanks for this…
If you’re thinking about making a sizable investment in this kind of medical breakthrough, just give me a call, and we’ll discuss it. 610-642-1000 rings on my desk. Or email: JeffDobkin@gmail.com.
All funds I receive will be devoted to create public awareness of my technique. My technique isn’t worth anything if no one knows about it. Only people who know this technique can use it to save lives. And so far, that’s a very very few people.
I can’t do it alone. While there’s something to be said for struggling as a researcher, it doesn’t apply to you when you’re 65. “Starving artist” is good for kids or the twenty somethings. It builds character. My character has already been built, thanks. For better or for worse.
The Brain Injury Foundation’s mission is now to create public awareness of our emergency technique to delay brain injury. Because The Dobkin Technique ONLY helps people who know about it.
Remember – you are now one of the privileged few who knows this simple technique. Not many people know how to save the life of a small child as he is brought up from the bottom of a swimming pool not breathing.
While you may know now, you are one of the very, very few.
Our Foundation Mission
The new mission of the Brain Injury Foundation is to raise the level of public awareness of our Technique — so that people can be saved from catastrophic brain damage in a Sudden Cardiac Arrest.
But this life saving technique is also for other the person in the room who is with the cardiac arrest victim.
Picture this: you’re sitting in your living room, 20 minutes outside of town. Your wife is in the room with you watching the telly.
After feeling sluggish and uncomfortable all day, you have a Sudden Cardiac Arrest. You fall over, your eyes spaced out and you are not communicative. Your spouse doesn’t know CPR. Now what?
Your wife calls for an ambulance. But remember – you live 20 minutes outside of the city. An ambulance will take 20 minutes to get to you. But in five minutes, you will start to suffer from permanent brain damage. They may be able to start your heart in 20 minutes, but your brain function won’t be able to recover.
With nothing else she can do other than “make you comfortable,” she watches you die. If you think this sounds harsh, it is. It isn’t a pretty picture – and that’s the reality of it.
She will now spend the rest of her life in complete remorse that she didn’t know what to do and just stood there, helplessly watching you die.
She didn’t know this simple technique. She didn’t know the one paragraph of what to do if your spouse has a Sudden Cardiac Arrest. The one paragraph that may be able help you so that you don’t die on the spot, or wind up with permanent, irreversible brain damage for the rest of both of your lives.
By using The Dobkin technique to delay brain death, the caregiver who is in the room with a person in cardiac arrest will no longer suffer from the devastating remorse that comes from not knowing CPR – or what else to do, and just watches the person die.
Sorry to be so frank, here – but that is like I said, the reality of it. If you live 20 minutes out in the country, 20 minutes away from an ambulance and you have a Sudden Cardiac Arrest – after 5 minutes — you’re out of time. After 20 minutes they may be able to start your heart, but they can’t bring you back without serious brain disfunction.
Research
A core mission of the Brain Injury Foundation was our proprietary research. It was specifically focused research in Hypoxic Ischemic Events, and the prevention of permanent brain damage in victims. And Sudden Cardiac Arrest is just the first of our research missions. We have other areas that need research. This is one reason we are asking for your contribution. To allow our research to continue.
For example, can the Mammalian Diving Reflex be used to help people who suffer Ischemic Stroke (when an artery to the brain is blocked)? It sounds likely: if the artery remains blocked for more than a few minutes, the brain cells die, just like in a Sudden Cardiac Arrest. Seconds count, and immediate treatment time is critical. Can The Dobkin Technique work to save stroke victims? I don’t know.
I just don’t know if my technique will help stroke victims without further research. It’s an area of study I need to research. Research means time. Time and research mean money. That research doesn’t come easy, and it doesn’t come fast. And frankly at 65, I’m running out of time myself. I can’t wait another 35 years.
I, we – need your money to continue to reach our goals. And find the answers that are almost within sight.
Here’s what the facts on stroke look like. If our Technique works, we can help a lot more people, save a lot of people from suffering these effects of a Stroke:
Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States.
More than 140,000 people die each year from stroke in the United States.
Stroke is the leading cause of serious, long-term disability in the United States.
Each year, approximately 795,000 people suffer a stroke. About 600,000 of these are first attacks, and 185,000 are recurrent attacks.
Each year, about 55,000 more women than men have a stroke.
More common among African-Americans than members of other ethnic groups.
Stroke accounted for about one of every 17 deaths in the United States in 2006.
According to the World Health Organization, 15 million people suffer stroke worldwide each year. Of these, 5 million die and another 5 million are permanently disabled.
Ischemic stroke is by far the most common kind of stroke, accounting for about 88 percent of all strokes.
Source: Internet Stroke Center.
It’s been a privilege to be able to help. It was a luxury to be able to devote so much of my time to research delaying brain injury. But… I now need help and to hire a crew.
I’m so close to answers in my research, so close to helping so many people – saving many people. Saving so many people from brain damage, and death. Saving so many families from sorrow – real sorrow. It would be a terrible shame if… I stopped.
I’ve already paid more than my share of dues. That’s why I’m writing this. I need your help, and support.
I promise you this – your contribution won’t go to waste. I won’t fly around the country in First Class, and stay in the Presidential Suites at the top-shelf hotels. Or pay myself an exorbitant salary.
That’s why I hope this foundation and our mission will make it to your “worthy” list of places to donate – each year. And you’ll make a contribution. I didn’t start this foundation so I could spend year after year “Fundraising.” I’m not really interested in “Fundraising.” I’m interested in saving people from brain damage. Saving lives is my nonprofit’s mission.
There are many worthy causes out there. I realize this.
And lots of less-than-worthy causes that people contribute to.
The moneys we receive go directly into research, public awareness, and administrative costs. That’s it.
My drive, the very core of my being, just won’t let me quit. Would you quit if you knew you could save just one person’s life? No, you wouldn’t. No funding – well, like I said, I don’t know if I have another 35 years of research left in me.
Help Today
You know, that’s the best thing about The Dobkin Technique to delay brain damage – it helps people today, in real time. There is a lot of research going on right now for other diseases that may give great results in ten years, twenty years. Your contribution to The Brain Injury Foundation will secure our effort to save people TODAY.
Once people learn of our technique, they can use it the same day — and apply it to victims on-site. Starting day one. Learn this technique in the afternoon, use it to save someone’s life that very night. Immediate results.
If only everyone knew.
Please help me create greater public awareness. Your contribution is fully tax deductible and will be dedicated to our public awareness campaign.
With your help and support we both can really make a difference to the 280,000 people EACH YEAR who die from Sudden Cardiac Arrest. And their caregivers. And their families.
To be honest, always am, I don’t know if this technique will work for every single sudden cardiac arrest victim. But I can guarantee it will not work for 100% of the people who don’t know about it, and don’t use it.
Thanks. Thank you very much.
Jeffrey Dobkin
PS. How you can help further?
1. If you read this far, perhaps you have or you may know someone or a business that has philanthropic initiatives? Please ask if The Brain Injury Foundation might apply for a grant or donation. Or better yet, ask if they can add us to their list of worthy causes to receive annual funding. Help us get funding and grants from others. It’s appreciated.
2. Donate. A donation at this time would allow us to create additional public awareness of this proprietary life-saving, time-buying emergency procedure.
Here’s just example of where your donation will be used:
There is a governmental protocol of what callers are told when they dial 911 to report a Sudden Cardiac Arrest. The responders need to add the simple line of “Apply cold water to the victim’s face right away.” A simple change in protocol.
To do this we need to reach out to many municipalities, state and federal governmental organizations to get our method approved. It’s time consuming, lousy working and thankless (I know, I tried). But, this needs to be done. Your funds can help.
By the way, you can can also help with this directly if you know anyone that can make this public policy change in protocol happen. We don’t. Your dollars are needed to support this initiative.
We need to pass this technique on to the Police, EMTs and Fire/Rescue Departments in your area. You can help us – especially if you have strong ties to these organizations.
Fire personnel should know this technique because it can extend the golden window of safety of victims who experience smoke inhalation choking and are in danger of suffocation: anoxic brain damage and death. And to fireman suffering smoke inhalation who have stopped breathing.
In addition, firemen are often first responders to Sudden Cardiac Arrest Victims as well as suffocation by smoke victims. The Dobkin Technique can be taught on the phone in under 20 seconds to people on scene. It can be the first procedure in the field to save a victim’s life from brain injury and certain death.
What would you get out of this?
You have the opportunity to save someone’s life. It’s your chance to make a real difference to someone, and their family and friends.
In our own Philadelphia Community, last year two people died running in the Philadelphia Marathon. They died with thousands of people and rescue personal on hand, watching. Rescue personnel on-site gave them CPR, to no avail. With tables of ice water just a few yards away. If they had only known. The Dobkin Technique might have been able to save them.
No easy task I’ve chosen, and I have no delusions: it’s a long, hard and expensive process to educate the public.
And the medical community? It can be particularly difficult to deal-with at times. And the drug companies? Well… our technique doesn’t use drugs. Need I say more?
What makes us a good organization to work with?
I have good insights, a proven track record that I’m willing to work harder than most, and have already shown a level of tremendous dedication, over time, to support my belief in what I think is a worthy cause. And I have invested heavily in it. My foundation is 100% self funded. I have donated my time and money to keep this foundation working to save lives.
All the work and time I have dedicated has been non-paid; and all the funding to The Brain Injury Foundation so far has been from myself. I just can’t get it all done without additional support – everything I see that needs to get done.
I’ve started new research goals. Goals like “Will the Dobkin Technique help infants who get SIDS?” I just don’t know. No one knows. But no one has a better answer – because infants who have SIDS have almost a 100% mortality rate. Do you know infant CPR? No, not many parents do. But I can put together a research team who can find out if The Dobkin Technique will help save infants from Sudden Infant Crib Death. It just takes money. And time. Time and money = funding.
I can’t create a real organization if I’m busy always looking for dollars. Looking for money is not my mission or my goal. Saving lives and preventing brain injury is my mission and goal.
Here’s the bottom line.
If I don’t pursue this, no one will. This technique will be lost. Other people would need to spend hundreds, maybe thousands of hours to learn what I’ve learned in my research. And if you’re thinking the drug companies will research this – they won’t. They have no interest in it — because it doesn’t use any drugs.
OK, your turn.
Thanks for reading this. I know I know, it’s really long. And I can babble a bit. Sorry. I appreciate your reading it.
I acknowledge all donations.
If you want, let’s talk. Face to face or on the phone. That way you can see the sincerity of my mission, learn about me, and ask any questions you like. You can learn about my plans of further research. You can examine my needs and share my vision of The Foundation over the next several years. I’m honest to a fault and I run a very transparent organization.
Thanks for your kind attention to this request – yes I know it was long, and you’re busy.
As well as my own chance to help people, this is your chance to help others too: to save the lives of people in our own communities and across the world.
Please donate. Call me with good news – 610-642-1000 rings in my pocket. Or call with questions. Email: JeffDobkin@gmail.com. Or send donations to The Brain Injury Foundation, P.O. Box 100, Merion Station, PA 19066
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Kindest regards,
Jeffrey Dobkin
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