Many choking deaths can be prevented with these steps. July 28, 2010 — -- If you saw a person choking, would you know what to do? The Heimlich maneuver sounds familiar, but the technique is now ...

For decades, the Heimlich maneuver has been lauded as the best course of action to save someone who is choking, but now experts say there is a better way. Since it was published in 1974, the Heimlich ...

It happened in an instant. One second, Dr. Michael Milobsky’s young daughter was eating. The next, she wasn’t making a sound. For a parent, it’s the moment you hope you never face: your child choking.

Choking emergencies can happen without warning, at home, at work, or in public spaces, and knowing how to respond correctly ...

The 'Five and Five', or most commonly the Heimlich maneuver, is a first-aid method for choking — when a person can’t breathe because food, a toy or another foreign item is blocking their throat or ...

When his young daughter began choking on a piece of pizza crust, pediatrician Dr. Michael Milobsky didn’t panic; he relied on training that he says every parent should know. The father of seven used ...

Adults and children should be given five back blows followed by five abdominal thrusts Choking infants should receive five back blows followed by five chest thrusts using the heel of one hand MONDAY, ...

Two new devices are currently on the market to save someone from choking when standard treatments — like the abdominal thrust manuever Henry Heimlich developed in 1974 — don’t work, according to The ...

NEW YORK — It was the scariest choking incident David Palumbo had ever seen. An 88-year-old man had been dining at a Providence, R.I., restaurant in September 2019. Now he was unconscious, with a ...

A family of medics in Co Antrim are proud and relieved after their 14-year-old St John Ambulance cadet son saved his younger sister from choking.