susanr Colorado
12/17/16 9:59 pm
Almost, sort of.
I was taking care of my friends' not-quite-one-year-old child once when he choked on a piece of meat and turned blue. I followed the protocol for a choking child, which doesn't include the abdominal thrusts. It starts with finger sweeps of the throat, progresses to thumps on the back, and if those don't work, ends with chest compressions as for CPR. The first two didn't work but I tried finger sweeps again, and that worked, so I didn't have to do the chest compressions.
My mom knew Dr. Heimlich, basically because his wife Jane was on her board of directors when my mom was director of the American Diabetes Cincinnati Affiliate, in the 70s & 80s.
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