Heimlich Maneuver??

[puddicat]

Have you ever had to implement this and do you know how???

[Velvetee]

Never had to do it fortnately, but have een trained on First Aid courses.

[puddicat]

Velvet havent been trained but i would give it a go if anyone needed assistance!!!

[sara3]

I'm also First Aid trained and know how to do it, but have never had to.. and long may that last!

[puddicat]

When i thought i was choking no one had a scoobie!!!

[Velvetee]

Hope I never have to do it either.

At the gym I work at, there is an old guy who comes in, he must be in his 80's and I'm ashamed to say, I do tend to take a wide berth. I just don't think I could bring myself to administer CPR if he keeled over one day.

[puddicat]

Lol Velvet!!!

[no-knowledge]

never done it but i have saved two people from choking to death, a freind and my own son.

[sqad617]

velvetee......would you rather have a younger fellow, with stained teeth, smelling of cigarettes, unshaven and with dirty underwear?

[puddicat]

squad thats a pensioner!!!

[sqad617]

zac.....always thinking of your right hand.

[chinadog]

My old mans a 1st aider and was told before peforming the HM on a pregant woman an aider must ask her permission in case the manouvre damages the foetus.

[McMouse]

Haven't been trained but did it to my wife when she was choking. Really believe it saved her life. Later learnt that it can be quite dangerous if performed incorrectly.

[puddicat]

china i would be grateful someone was saving my life lol, never mind asking!!!

[Velvetee]

I don't want to have to do it to anyone. They should really have mouth guards available in the First Aid box.

[chinadog]

Ditto puddicat..lol. But they still have to ask, I s'pose its a matter of who's life to save eh? I has a piece of chocolate stuck once,the feeling is so scary when you cant breath. My youngest son swallowed a sweet when he was 3. My daft MIL gave it to him and when he started choking she ran to get him a glass of water and drunk it herself!! I put him between my legs,turned him upside down,slapped him between his shoulder blades and fortunatly the sweet dislodged. I was crying with relief after.

[puddicat]

Well done china!!

[andy-hughes]

I know how to do it, but never done it myself.

Saw it done at a formal dinner once - the lady on the next table started to choke, and the guy four seats down on the other side calmly came round, dragged her chair back, applied the manoevre, and she spat out a large wodge of food, and went from bright red back to her normal colour.

We all thought how brave he was to perform this on a complete stranger, but it turned out it was his wife, and they were at a business dinner where everyone has to sit away from their guest!

[puddicat]

Hi andy lucky he loved his missus lol!!!