MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

COLLEGE OF APPLIED MEDICAL SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF NURSING

ADULT CHOCKING
What is When someone is choking, their airway is partly or completely blocked,
choking? meaning they may be unable to breathe properly. They might be able

to clear it by coughing, but if they can't you will need to help them
straight away.

RECOGNITION

Ask the casualty: “Are you choking?”

Step

IF THE CASUALTY IS BREATHING

1
encourage her to continue
coughing. If she is not coughing and not able to
breathe, she is choking. Go to step 2.

Step

2 STAND BEHIND THE CASUALTY WITH

ONE LEG BACK AND THE
other between the casualty’s legs, and put both arms around the upper
part of her abdomen. Clench your fist with your thumb on top of your index
finger and place it between the navel and the bottom of her breastbone.
Grasp your fist firmly with your other hand. Thrust sharply inward and
upward until the object is dislodged or the casualty becomes unconscious

Step
IF THE CASUALTY LOSES
CONSCIOUSNESS 3
carefully support her to the floor, immediately call 997 for
emergency help or send someone to do so, then begin CPR with
chest compressions. Each time the airway is opened during CPR,
look for an object in the casualty's mouth and, if seen, remove it.

Step

4 IF THE OBSTRUCTION STILL

has not cleared, continue CPR
until help arrives

Mild obstruction: Class of 2021:

Casualty able to spake, cough, •Tofuf Mohammed
and breathe •Hawra Abdulmohsen
•Mala Fahad
Severe obstruction: •Zahra Essa
Unable to make any noise,or •Zahra Abduljaleel
breathe, with eventual loss of •Eman Hassan
consciousness