The quick and hard upward thrust of a balled up fist against the torso of a person desperately gasping for air can be the difference between life and death. The lifesaving maneuver, dubbed the Heimlich, impassioned one choking survivor, Doug Newberry, to establish a website -- HeimlichHeroes.com -- in honor of Dr. Henry Jay Heimlich, the creator of the technique. As Dr. Heimlich's 91st birthday approaches, Newberry said he wanted to create the site as an outlet for choking victims to share their stories and praise their heroes.
When Dr. Henry Heimlich urges people to use Heimlich maneuver as the first step in drowning rescues, he makes two persuasive points. Water has to come out of the lungs before air can get in, he says, and studies have found survival rates of 97 percent when the Heimlich maneuver is used first but 58 percent otherwise. His many critics dismantle each point, however. They question whether Heimlich understands either how people drown or what constitutes credible research. Those critics are virtually unanimous among the countless experts in the medicine and mechanics of drowning who've gone public, thoroughly documenting their challenges to both the data he cites and the rescue examples he gives.
Ryan Fagan could not have guessed that two days after he learned how to save a choking person in his Boy Scout meeting, he would need to use those first-aid skills. Several months ago, Ryan paid attention when his troop learned the Heimlich maneuver. Afterward, the Scouts of Troop 7 paired up and practiced on each other.
COVINA - Boy Scouts Kaulin Garcia and Joseph Eggers were middle- schoolers when they inadvertently became heroes by saving their friends' lives two years ago. Taking the skills they learned from Boy Scouts Troop 448, Garcia, of San Dimas, and Eggers, of Covina, each used the Heimlich maneuver to each save their peers from choking to death when no one else could.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. | Jeremy Shockey came to the rescue of Panthers teammate Ben Hartsock by performing the Heimlich maneuver at the team's cafeteria at Bank of America Stadium. The incident occurred Monday after Hartsock began choking on a piece of meat. Hartsock says he signaled for help when he couldn't breathe, and after one teammate was unable to perform the Heimlich, Shockey succeeded.
Why the switch? According to [Mike Higgins], the Red Cross reviews its first-aid protocols every five years, and it determined recently there's no evidence the Heimlich maneuver works better than back blows. Interestingly, the Red Cross doesn't even call it the "Heimlich maneuver" anymore, but uses the more anatomically descriptive "abdominal thrusts." Higgins explains that the name was changed to reflect how the procedure works physiologically. According to someone who's also quite familiar with the procedure, and with Dr. Heimlich himself - his son, Peter Heimlich - the change is a result of growing questions about the maneuver's safety and effectiveness, as well as the credentials of Dr. Heimlich himself. Bluntly put, the younger Heimlich has repeatedly accused his father of being "a...
Amherst police may think they've seen everything, but they've now arrested a 68-year-old woman accused of trying to stop someone from performing the Heimlich maneuver on a man in a crowded Niagara Falls Boulevard restaurant. The incident occurred June 18, a Saturday night, when a 43-year- old man was choking and someone began to perform the Heimlich maneuver on him.
On May 6, 2010, I had a life-altering experience. My husband and I and three of our grandkids were dining at Macaroni Grill in East Memphis. The kids were telling jokes as we were eating, and all of a sudden I inhaled to laugh and choked on a piece of chicken I was eating. I could not breathe. I immediately stood up and poked my husband to help me. He tried to do the Heimlich Maneuver, but he really did not know how.
When a piece of peppermint lodged in the throat of 9-year-old Josh McKessy, his pal knew just what to do. School officials say Lennox LeVine-Miller saved his friend's life by using the Heimlich maneuver on Josh at Riverdale Elementary in Germantown. Lennox had read about it in his Weekly Reader.
The Federation of Public Employees (FPE) union voted overwhelmingly in support of a "no confidence" measure against Sheriff Al Lamberti on Monday, May 10. FPE represents over 2,500 clerical, support and detention deputies within the department, a good majority of whom are black. Union members are upset over Lamberti's decision to lay off 124 people, eliminate 62 vacant positions, and demote 250 others from their ranks. BSO is facing a $60 million shortfall in its $706 million budget, and FPE members are taking the brunt of the cuts, as opposed to road deputies and those represented by other unions. FPE officials say this is retaliation against them for supporting Lamberti's opponent, Scott Israel, in the 2008 election. Last month, U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek (D) was credited with saving the...
...Jan Schakowsky. Meek performed the Heimlich maneuver on Schakowsky, who was choking while dini...
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