FROM GROUP

B1
 What is Choking????

 is when your airway gets blocked

 by a foreign object
 And cause you to cannot breathe
properly.
 Signs and Symptons….

 The person unable to:

 Speak
 Breath
 Cough
 the person's face turns grey-blue (cyanosis) from
lack of oxygen
 The person desperately grasp his or her throat or
mouth or neck, or attempts to induce vomiting by
putting their fingers down their throat.
 Choking adult ‒ what to do
1) If you think someone is choking….

• Ask that person “Are you choking??”

to check they’re not suffering from something else. Can they speak, cry,
cough or breathe?
If they Can…

It might be just a Mild choking hence:

 Encourage the person to keep coughing to try and
clear the blockage
 Don't put your fingers in their mouth to help them
as they may bite you accidentally
 If they Can’t
 Severe choking
 Encourage the person to cough, If this doesn't clear the
obstruction
 support their upper body with one hand and help them to
lean/bend forward.
 Use the heel of your hand to give up to five sharp back
blows between their shoulder blades.
 Check their mouth
 If it don’t work proceed to…….
 Stand behind the person
 and link your hands between their tummy button
 and the bottom of their chest, with your lower hand
clenched in a fist
 Pull sharply inwards and upwards.
(abdominal thrust)

 Up to 5 times
 If they are still choking..
 Call for help; ambulance…
 Repeat the steps of Back Flow and Abdominal
Thrusts until what’s in there has cleared, help
arrives or they become unconscious.
 f they become unconscious at any stage, open their
airway and check their breathing.
 start chest compressions and rescue breaths (CPR -
cardiopulmonary resuscitation) to try to release
whatever’s stuck in there. Follow the instructions for
treating someone who’s unresponsive and not
breathing
 Until the helps come…..