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

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    Teacher, Driving Home From Work, Pulls Over To Save Choking 100-Year-old Woman With Heimlich Maneuver Wrap your arms around their torso from the back. Make a fist with one hand and grab it with ...

  3. Researchers outline how to save yourself from choking if you ...

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    Researchers have outlined a way people can save themselves from choking, which they call a "self-treatment." The authors recommend hanging upside down, such as in the downward dog yoga pose or ...

  4. Two managers at a Bluffton restaurant save a choking woman ...

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    During a brief lull in between lunch and a busy dinner rush a customer seated at a booth began choking on her food. After a waitress alerted the managers they rushed to the table to perform the ...

  5. Abdominal thrusts - Wikipedia

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    In May 2016, Henry Heimlich, then age 96, claimed to have personally used the maneuver to save the life of a fellow resident at his retirement home in Cincinnati. It was alleged to be either the first or second time Heimlich himself used his namesake maneuver to save the life of someone in a non-simulated choking situation. [11]

  6. Choking - Wikipedia

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    Choking on food is only one type of airway obstruction; others include blockage due to tumors, swelling and inflammation of the airway tissues (from organic foreign bodies or another reason), and compression of the laryngopharynx, larynx, or vertebrate trachea in strangulation. Foreign bodies can also enter the reparatory tract through the ...

  7. Strangulation in domestic violence - Wikipedia

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    Choking is when air flow is blocked by food or a foreign object in the trachea – something that can be addressed by the Heimlich maneuver. Strangulation, by contrast, is defined by reduced air flow and/or blood flow to or from the brain via the intentional external compression of blood vessels or the airway in the neck.

  8. Arizona second-grader uses Heimlich maneuver to save choking ...

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    An Arizona second-grader was celebrated as a hero — and honored at a school assembly last week — for his quick thinking after saving his friend who started to choke on his lunch during the ...

  9. Choking rescue training devices - Wikipedia

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    Choking rescue training devices are choking simulation equipment used by first aid learners to prepare for dealing with real world choking scenarios. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They have been approved and used by the European Resuscitation Council , [ 3 ] St John Ambulance , [ 4 ] and International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement . [ 5 ]