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April 10, 2007

Heimlich ()

by fluffy at 3:49 PM
Today at lunch, my coworkers and I had the opportunity to see what really happens when the Heimlich maneuver is performed on a choking person.

You know how in cartoons and TV shows and so on, the piece of food flies out like a cork from a champagne bottle?

That's not quite how it goes in reality.

Comments

#9000 04/19/2007 03:40 pm
So what did happen? Just flop out?
-bill
#9002 04/19/2007 04:05 pm
The notion is that the plug of food gets propelled out by air.

It does not.

It gets propelled out by other food.