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  2. Choking emergency? How to do the Heimlich maneuver - AOL

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    The Heimlich maneuver is a first-aid method recommended by most health organizations, which uses abdominal thrusts to dislodge an obstruction from a person’s windpipe. Boy, 8, Saves Choking ...

  3. Recovery position - Wikipedia

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    The earliest recognition that placing unconscious patients on their side would prevent obstruction of the airway was by Robert Bowles, a doctor at the Victoria Hospital in Folkestone, England. [4] In 1891 he presented a paper with the title 'On Stertor, Apoplexy, and the Management of the Apoplectic State' in relation to stroke patients with ...

  4. Asphyxia - Wikipedia

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    An example of traumatic asphyxia is a person who jacks up a car to work on it from below, and is crushed by the vehicle when the jack fails. [7] Constrictor snakes such as boa constrictors kill through slow compressive asphyxia, tightening their coils every time the prey breathes out rather than squeezing forcefully.

  5. ABC (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    The protocol was originally developed as a memory aid for rescuers performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and the most widely known use of the initialism is in the care of the unconscious or unresponsive patient, although it is also used as a reminder of the priorities for assessment and treatment of patients in many acute medical and trauma ...

  6. Palliative sedation - Wikipedia

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    In medicine, specifically in end-of-life care, palliative sedation (also known as terminal sedation, continuous deep sedation, or sedation for intractable distress of a dying patient) is the palliative practice of relieving distress in a terminally ill person in the last hours or days of a dying person's life, usually by means of a continuous intravenous or subcutaneous infusion of a sedative ...

  7. 3 signs your aging loved one may be ready for assisted living

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    The person may also forget how to do simple tasks like making a bed, doing laundry, washing the dishes or following cooking instructions. Aging ‘Hotspot’ Found In Brain, Researchers Say ...

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