What to do when someone is choking?

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:salams

I was reading about choking the other day and came across some interesting figures.
Anyone can choke when eating, sadly, many people don't know what to do to help them.

• According to a report from the National Safety Council, choking causes 3,900 deaths per year, which makes choking the sixth leading cause of accidental death in the United States.
  
  
• Within about four minutes [of choking] the victim will suffer permanent brain damage.
  
  
• Within about five minutes [of choking] the victim will be dead.

Symptoms of Choking:

• Choking victim is unable to breathe or to speak.
  
• Then, because not enough oxygen is reaching the brain, the victim becomes pale, turns blue, and falls unconscious.

What to do? Apply the Heimlich Maneuver!

Standing:

• Stand behind the victim and put both your arms around his waist.
  
• Let his head, arms, and upper torso hang forward.
  
• Make a fist with one hand and place it thumb side in against the victim’s abdomen—slightly above the navel but below the rib cage.
  
• Then cover the first with your other hand and press into the abdomen with a quick upward thrust, bending your arms at the elbows.

Sitting:

• Kneel behind him.
  
• Put your arms around both him and the chair, and perform the maneuver in the same way.

Lying down:

• Lay the person flat on his back, with his face turned upward (not to the side).
  
• Kneel straddling the victim. Do not try to perform the maneuver from the side, because you could rupture the victim’s liver or spleen.
  
• Place the heel of one hand against the choking victim’s abdomen, above the navel but below the ribs.
  
• Put your other hand on top of the first one and press into the victim’s abdomen with a quick upward thrust.

Here's a demo:

Extracted from The Heimlich Maneuver, by Kelly Marti

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Re: What to do when someone is choking?

JazakAllah khayr akhi .... useful thred indeed.

[noobz]

Re: What to do when someone is choking?

i remember i swallowed an ice cube once and was choking , i banged myself with the wall like 5x in desperation cause i felt like i was dying and it fortunately went down ...

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Re: What to do when someone is choking?

i remember i swallowed an ice cube once and was choking , i banged myself with the wall like 5x in desperation cause i felt like i was dying and it fortunately went down ...

There's something called self Heimlich maneuver. You perform it on yourself when no one's there to help.

Read up:
http://affinity-health.adam.com/cont...d=1&gid=001983