Heimlich Manoeuvre

[Bazile]

Prompted by a poster

I've been looking at videos of this procedure
They seem to differ slightly

Some say push against the stomach and pill up

Others don't day pull up

Also what position is your thumb on the hand underneath suppose to be - is it flat against the stomach or tucked in under the fingers

Also do you position your hands half way between the belly button and the rib cage ?

[woofgang]

what the NHS says. I heimliched myself over a chair back once when I was choking and alone. https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/accidents-first-aid-and-treatments/what-should-i-do-if-someone-is-choking/

[Mamyalynne]

NHS Guidelines are clear enough.

https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/accidents-first-aid-and-treatments/what-should-i-do-if-someone-is-choking/

[Baldric]

// and pill up //

I didn't realise it involved tablets.

[DTCwordfan]

Viagra, Balders, Viagra.....

[237SJ]

Initially, you do back slaps then abdominal thrusts. You make one hand into a fist and point the knuckle of the thumb towards the body whilst holding the fist with the other hand. You pull inwards and slightly upwards. You alternate 5 of those with back slaps.

[237SJ]

With a child you use one hand and with an infant you use two fingers. You can also do it on an unconcious person but nowadays they recommend that you go straight into CPR as the action of that can dislodge the obstruction.

[DTCwordfan]

what is staggering is how many folk have no idea of how to do this, SJ......someone I knew, the restaurant manager of the Churchill in London, died in NY on a chunk of steak and nobody knew how to give the manoeuvre.

[Bazile]

Baldric
Do you always
have to ?

[237SJ]

DT - I`ve come close to choking a couple of times in my life. Both times it was with steak. I rarely eat red meat but when I eat steak now, I make sure I cut off the smallest pieces. The trouble with choking in public is that you can't speak so can only gesture as to what the problem is.