Documents tagged with backblows

Forum: "The Heimlich Maneuver Versus Back Blows," Emergency Medical Services, March/April 1980

Note the item on page 21 by K.W. Mansoor who claims her mother died "due to a choking incident." In fact, the writer was Katherine Wyllie Mansoor, my father's secretary at the Heimlich Institute a...
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12/29/05 ILCOR foreign body airway obstruction guideliness and citations

Part 2: Adult Basic Life Support Circulation 2005;112;III-5-III-16 DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.10 5.166472 Circulation is published by the American Heart Association. 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas,...
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"Choking: The Heimlich Abdominal Thrust vs Back Blows" Pediatrics, 7-82

ABSTRACT. Back blows produce less pressure than the Heimlich maneuvers in seated subjects. In addition, back blows throw the head and neck forward and upward due to straightening the spine. Such bl...
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"Foreign body airway obstruction: considerations in 1985," Circulation 12/86

Panel recommendations (1985 American Heart Association panel on Foreign Body Airway Obstruction): Two major considerations directed the panel discussions: (I) Is there one method of treatment...
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