PRIORITY ACTION No, 11 Cafe coronary
(CHOKING): During a meal a person may choke severely on something. It may be so severe as to look like a heart attack — the victim may give a strangled gasp, keel over and go red or purple in the face. This has come to be known as the “cafe coronary.” The answer to severe choking is easy and logical. Get the victim on his feet and grasp him from behind in a fast and forceful bear-hug just below the rib-cage (but not over the stomach) — and put some beef into it. Known as the “Heimlich
manoeuvre,” this will literally blast the obstruction out of the windpipe.
COMMON-SENSE FIRST AID By the Accident Compensation Commission
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Press, 9 March 1978, Page 12
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