[Coco] Get to know your neighbors, folks

[John W. Linville]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 07:33:50PM -0400, Arthur Flexser wrote:
> On 6/2/09, Torsten Dittel <Torsten at dittel.info> wrote:
> 
> >
> >  Didn't the American Heart Association warn against the use of the so-called
> > "Heimlich Maneuver" as unproven and dangerous, due to its risk of vomiting
> > leading to aspiration?!?
> >
> According to the wikipedia entry on Heimlich, that warning only
> applies to using the Heimlich in drowning rescue attempts.  For
> conscious people who are choking, the American Red Cross now
> recommends 5 back blows and, if that fails, 5 abdominal thrusts, the
> latter being the now-preferred term for Heimlich maneuvers.

And when I was in high school, we were told to _never_EVER_ strike
someone who is choking on the back...  Sometimes I think being a
medicine is like weather forecasting...

John
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