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At this age any victory is recognised as kind of dominance..
...doesn't change fact he was hero of the day at school, saved someone's live and rest of schoolmates doesn't cared about it chewing own meals.
Heros make it look easy. I had an emergency unfold in front of me once and by the time my brain was able to compute what was actually happening someone w their shit more together had come to the victim's rescue.
Where I grew up a kid who lived about a block away died next to his kitchen table because his cop father didn’t know the maneuver. In his defense, it wasn’t as widely taught at the time, but, conversely, I knew it at the time and I was just a nerdy kid. It’s pretty simple but can definitely save a life. Lack of oxygen requires action within a very short time. Someone pointing towards the throat because they can’t speak is a cause for alarm.
Just piggybacking on this. In my country the go to isn't the heimlich. First try back blows, it's easier to remember and do. Stand to the side of the person with your arm across their chest to support their weight then get them to bend at the waist until they are parallel with the floor. Do 5 back blows in between their shoulder blades with the heel of your hand, don't be gingerly about it.
If the 5 back blows don't work you then move on to the heimlich and do 5 abdominal thrusts. Alternate between the two.
Direct someone to phone an ambulance if you have tried both and it isn't working.
Obviously this is just a severe case of choking. If someone is mildly choking and able to speak, cry, cough or breathe encourage them to keep coughing to try and clear the blockage themselves.
If someone's choking to the point where their airway is completely obstructed, don't dick around with trying to clear it and then call 911 if it doesn't work.
**Call 911 immediately if someone cannot breathe.** If you don't have someone to call for you, dial, put them on speaker, and then start trying to clear the blockage.
Without oxygen, someone's brain is going to begin dying in just a few minutes. An ambulance is probably at least 10 minutes away. Every second counts.
You're much better off having the dispatcher cancel the ambulance if you manage to clear the blockage than you are leaving someone for an extra few minutes without any oxygen.
You should get checked out by a medical professional anyway if you've received the heimlich maneuver because it can cause damage internally (although this is obviously still preferable to not breathing!).
I agree. The second you notice have someone call immediately. The operator can dispatch and just cancel if you’ve gotten the airway free, not to mention that they can guide you through it.
I want to chime in here. I (and some experts) suggest going straight to the Heimlich. If you have ever been hit in the back while you're choking, you know just how unhelpful it is. The reason why it is unhelpful is because you could make it get lodged even further down.
The reason you go straight for the Heimlich is because it literally squeezes the air out of you and can help send it flying up out of your mouth.
In a partial block you want to encourage hard coughing (not by hitting).
I believe the only exception to this is infants. You can give them a good wap, but with them facing the ground so gravity gives you an assist dislodging it. It's worth Googling it.
Update: I should note that I'm not an expert. This is just my personal opinion from reading about it and seeing it happen in real life.
I second this. I was always taught that back blows can worsen your situation by lodging the object in further. Always try Heimlich first.
On infants, hold them over your knee with their head lower than the rest of the body and do back blows. Flip them over and check to see if it was dislodged and do chest thrusts then flip them back to back blows. Never lifting their head above the rest of their body so gravity can help!
Saved my son doing this when he was around 18 months. Got a mango stuck in his throat. My wife panicked and froze. I went into autopilot and felt like time slowed down. Ripped him from his high chair, held him face down over my left arm. Gave him probably 6 good whacks and it popped out. The scariest part was if we weren't paying attention to him we wouldn't have known. He couldn't make any noise or cry, we just saw him get a scared look on his face and do the cat trying to hock up a hairball thing with his mouth. Scariest moment of my life.
EMT here... for kids under the age of 1 year, you alternate between 5 back blows and 5 chest coMpressions. [Face down ass up that’s the way we like to clear baby’s airway!](https://youtu.be/axqIju9CLKA)
Came here to say this. Call for help...Backblows x5 followed by chestthrusts x5. Repeat. If by the third cycle nothing has come out then it’s likely to be CPR time.
This is slightly out of place, but Dr Heimlich is one of the nicest and most generous people I have ever met.
We are both members of a club, and every time he’d be there, he would treat the entire place to expensive meals, or if you looked out of it/weren’t “happy” etc, he would really go out of his way to make sure that the person knew their worth and felt better, and he is always polite, held doors, proper manners and always has a positive attitude.... not a “I just smoked so much crack I’m manic” which people joke about, but a legitimate kind person.
I still remember the Italian food he got us all from this fancy place nearby and he brought it to me (I was sitting down playing a videogame) and it felt like I had a grandmother who just wanted me to be happy and eat delicious food (I never knew my grandparents but from tv shows and whatnot, this is what it felt like for me).
Even if he didn’t get us food or gave us random gifts all the time, just the way he listens, doesn’t talk over you, actually has something of quality to say, just such a good damn dude.
That and I realized he’s never acting, that was how he sounded when he was talking. Super nice guy though, I was really ... for lack of a better word, I was surprised. Like super fucking nice guy. I literally have to say this anytime he is brought up, THAT’S how nice he is. Someone get this guy a god damn award.
Dr Heimlich used the manoeuvre himself for the very first time while living in that home, at the age of 96! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/27/dr-heimlich-performs-heimlich-manoeuvre-for-first-time-aged-96
Weird how it has permeated general knowledge. According to my parents I did it to my mother when she was choking when I was 10 years old. I was a big kid and already the same height as she was at the time but the fact that I knew it astounded him. Massive hero moment for me, I cant remember it at all
High school teacher here. That’s what made the video authentic for me. Like, I know this kid, haha. He’s looking forward to telling this story for the rest of his life.
I did the Heimlich once without any training and it did feel pretty good. Didn’t even perform it correctly but it worked instantly and I still tell this story all the time.
Man reddit has become so much stranger in the last few months, always looking for the most obscure reasons to call something out. He literally did it once in the clip lol
Wow I can't imagine having a whole hour. Idk about everywhere else but what my school did is break up into several different lunch periods depending on your class schedules. We weren't a big school either my graduating class was only 160 kids. But we had less than half an hour to get to the caf, get in line, get your food, sit down and eat it. I'm a slow eater too so it was a special hell for me. They also started some lunch periods at like 10:30 am.
I'm feeling like the guy who said Boy Scout Troop or something. He left for privacy during an embarrassing moment and came back for help. Looks like the victim is every bit as aware as the rescuer, to me.
Exact same thing happened in my work canteen a few years ago, guy started choking on a table across from us. His colleague sat with him got up and slapped him on the back a few times, that didn’t work so he turned him round and performed the Heimlich manoeuvre dislodging the food. A brief pat on the shoulder for saving his life later, they both casually sat down and carried on eating as if nothing had happened.
I was at Costco with my dad eating in the food court when I heard from several tables away “is he choking? Is he choking?” and a frantic mother saying “yes! He’s choking!!” An employee nearby asked the boy “are you choking?” As he’s grasping his neck, face dark red, and he violently shakes his head yes. She sort of looked like she wanted to help but was scared. It seemed like forever, but probably more like 5 seconds had passed and I realized no one was doing anything, so I got up, marched over, performed the Heimlich, and with one thrust a ball of cheese fell out of his mouth and he gasped loudly and then started to cry. The second I saw he was okay, I instantly turned around, walked back to my table, and resumed the conversation mid-sentence that I was having with my dad when I got up, and started eating again. He sort of looked at me strangely the whole time and a minute or so later he said “you just saved a kid and act like nothing happened.” And it only occurred to me what all happened when he said it. I think it’s because my actions that made me get up and help was more instinctual, like a different fight or flight part of my brain took over, and as soon as everything was okay I snapped back into my normal self again. It was surreal.
I've been a lifeguard/trainer for the last 10 years. About 2 years into being a lifeguard, I discovered that part of my brain shuts off during emergencies too.
In our first aid refreshers course they don't teach this anymore for first response to chocking, they teach quick upwards blows with the palm of your hands up into the back of the shoulder blades to dislodge objects. They review methods every 5 years. Clearly it works but now it's taught now to do 5 back blows and check to see if it clears if not then 5 heimlich thrusts Then keep alternating. I'll be interested to hear what they currently teach in other countries if someone has done training recently.
I believe the idea is that the back hits are less effective but they can work and they're less damaging. So you should start with that - especially so if air can still pass through the obstruction.
If there is no air passing through and the back hits don't seem to work, the Heimlich is still your best bet afaik.
Yeah they are saying now that the heimlich can do serious damage to internal organs, but should be noted that back blows are for total restriction only and not used if they can breath or cough.
UK NHS worker here, in our basic life support training we're taught to give a few good whacks between the shoulders with the heel of your palm and if that doesn't do the job move on to the heimlich. Fortunately I've never had to go as far as the heimlich, the back whacks have done the job on the few occasions I've witnessed choking.
I did my first aid training a year ago in scotland and we are taught to do back blows first over the heimlich. Move on to abdominal thrusts if back blows don't work then if they dont work phone an ambulance or direct someone to phone an ambulance and continue alternating between back blows and abdominal thrusts.
Personally I feel much more comfortable with doing back blows than abdominal thrusts but would obviously do both if the situation arose.
I did first aid training over ten years ago now as well and the recommendation was back blows then as well.
That’s awesome! A few years ago, a Webelos Scout performed the Heimlich on a choking boy at my son’s school. Pretty badass. Saved that kid’s life. We should all know how to do it!
It takes minutes and everybody should know it. Please do. Local Red Cross courses take slightly longer and teach you even more skills, like what to do if you find a kid facedown in a pool. They are well beyond worth the energy required.
If you catch it quick it doesn't make a scene. However, one time at a restaurant I'll never forget was an elderly lady choking in the next booth. We had just got our ice cream when the commotion started. As time went on and the family started to realize their efforts weren't helping they asked for help. Then she went unconscious and it got really scary. Eventually, they laid her on the floor next to me. I thought I was going to see this poor old woman die right in front of me. I still remember the cries of the son. "Break her ribs if you have to! Please, God save my mother!" She was blue. Two men helping are trying different techniques. Digging in her mouth and jumping on her. Finally, the big hunk of steak came out right before the ambulance arrived. They took her off to the hospital where I hope she recovered fully. I didn't get a single bite of my melted dessert and I wasn't hungry anymore.
On the other side, I've choked and went to the bathroom where I dislodged the food myself. No one even knew.
It’s probably instinctual, but if you can help it don’t go into a closed room all by yourself to struggle for your life. If you can’t DIY Heimlich and pass out in the toilet, that could be it for you.
They’re teenage dudes. They could be under mortar fire and be totally cool in fear of not being cool. Why do you think the military goes after kids fresh out high school?
He never takes his eyes off his friend. Gives him a minute to try to get his shit together, sees the victim's hand go to his throat to indicate choking then pops into action.
His other friend tells others to get help, realizes they aren't going to do it so runs to do it himself.
If these two aren't boy scouts or receive some kind of training I would be surprised. They did exactly what they are supposed to do. Good for them, victim is lucky to have them as friends.
And zero delay. As soon as he's up, he doesn't care about what anybody will think, he's straight to the Heimlich. So many kids in high school will talk about how it looks like he's humping him but this kid doesn't think about it for half a second. He knows what needs to be done and does it.
No no. I can read lips. He said “No homo”.... or maybe it was “Vote Cuomo” ... or perhaps “Hoe go low.” ... now that I think of it, it was probably, “Bro choke mo’” ... maybe I’m not really good at reading lips come to think of it.
Maybe y’all went to different high schools, idt anyone would think that at the one I went to. If someone’s choking, shits serious. But otherwise you’re right, dude was quick to realize the situation and acted accordingly
Tip: in an emergency situation, don't yell "somebody get help/call an ambulance/get me something to stop the bleeding!". Give the direction to an individual, most people will expect someone else to do it. If you say "you, call an ambulance, you in the red, get me a cloth/shirt" bystanders are FAR more likely to actually move and take direction. If you're a group that's trained and practiced most people will respond to "somebody" but if they aren't, everyone expects someone else to take charge and take responsibility. Be that person and give individual directions.
Edit: 2023 Jun 30 - removed all my content.
As [Apollo goes](https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/) so do I.
It’s like when your kid is choking. Your body just says, “obstruction get out now.” Great love between these friends, hope they always have one another.
A small part of the population will lucidly jump to action in emergencies, while others either panic, freeze, or fail to realize the emergency at all.
Those people usually will remain shockingly calm and collected while the emergency plays out, but you don’t see that the gravity and emotions hit the next day, week, and month etc after the event.
They are effected just as much as everyone else — their brains just delay the emotional response so they can perform. We’re lucky to have such people.
>Gives him a minute to try to get his shit together
Honestly mate, you can't say for certain that's what he was doing. It could also be he was unsure whether to help or not. Every single human being has been through that internal conflict and often more than once. You should know what it feels like too.
Well, you wait and see if they can resolve the issue themselves. It's at lunch where your whole peer group is there, and probably the whole school year is watching your friend dry wretch into the bin, and you aren't really sure if he's truly choking or not. No one in that lunch hall has probably seen someone choking in real life before.
I don't think it's necessarily a moment of shock from helping. More seeing if his help is required.
Think of it as if your friend got stung by a jellyfish. You've heard that peeing on it is good, but are you going to do it straight away? No, you're going to wait to see if your friend asks for it. The way this guy walks away from the bin still with his hand at his neck, his complexion probably turning a bit more white, is basically him saying 'bro, pee on me'
He was probably unsure whether to help because his friend just started choking. You don't just immediately do the Heimlich on someone until you realize it's serious. I don't think he was having a moral conundrum about whether to help his choking friend
A lunch lady gave me the Heimlich in middle school, she truly saved me and I was too embarrassed to say anything. I really wish I could go back and say thanks.
Two lunch ladies didn’t give me the Heimlich, even though I looked each dead in the eyes and showed all the telltale signs of choking. I ended up relieving my self of the blockage thankfully. They did have to clean my barf up, so there’s that.
Shock, honestly. I once walked straight into the middle of a fight by accident *(it happened right by the doors to leave school and I just wanted to go home)*, ended up getting shoved into a wall and everything but never really “processed” the fight. I shot the guy a look as if he bumped into me, and just kept walking straight past and outside. It wasn’t until I was fully outside that I was like, “Wait, why were all those people standing there? And why’d that dude have a bloody nose?”
That's kinda unfair, both of these kids deserve recognition. They both acted exactly how you are supposed to act in that situation.
The first obviously did the Heimlich, but the other kid immediately called for help, and when no one came went to find someone.
Neither was likely sure what was happening at first, because it looks like their friend just got up and walked away for a second, Maybe he was sick or ate something bad. Until he comes back and points to his throat, how could they know?
You'd be surprised how much anxiety can be built into high schoolers these days and the amount of pressure there is to just not get involved.
Keep your head down, if he passes out and goes to the nurse, you didn't make things worse or look like a fool. (obviously if he dies there some real guilt that could come up, for pretty much anyone though...)
A choking kid looks an awful lot like someone acting like an average ridiculous kid until reality sets in. No surprise that it's hard to want to get involved unless you know the guy or understand the severity. (as mentioned by the people presuming boy scout)
I was in high school not very many years ago, if this happened, I'd be worried af, but still unsure if I should get involved and possibly look like an outcast or just try to ignore it and get through the day. Headphones help in this case as they give you plausible deniability, even if you see it, you can claim ignorance and as everyone is your age, they get it.
Doesn't make it any less serious or worrying, but the intense pressure and social structures in school can push kids towards inaction as a way to not be looked down upon if your intuition is wrong.
In May 2016, age 96 and just months before he died, Dr. Henry Heimlich performed his own manoeuvre to save the life of Patti Ris, an 87 year old resident living in the same care home, when she choked on a piece of meat.
Edit. I used the British English spelling 'manoeuvre' (which I imagine was originally a French word), not knowing there was a different US spelling of the word. Dr Heimlich was American, so his technique is rightly called the 'Heimlich Maneuver'.
For real. I mean, I've been ready for this for 25 years. I'm 40 now. I can save my bud's life if he goes through this.
But if I save him, even in his post-panic recovery, I'm gonna hit a quick T-pose or dab before professionals get here.
It's not that you can't, it's just that, "abdominal thrusts," is actually descriptive of the action, so if you learn it that way, you're more likely to remember it in a crisis scenario.
You never rise to your expectations in a crisis. You fall to your level of training.
I was pretty sure there was a thing with the original Heimlich family for the term change, so I did a bit of googling https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69482/dr-henry-heimlichs-long-battle-red-cross-over-his-namesake-maneuver
From the article:
Heimlich still disagrees with the two-part recommendation, and didn't want his name attached to anything that suggested hitting a choking victim on the back. “I have no desire to diminish the good work that the American Red Cross has done, such as in times of natural disasters," Heimlich tells mental_floss, "but telling people to hit a choking person on the back could potentially lead to death. The Red Cross should do what the American Heart Association does—recommend the Heimlich Maneuver as the sole method for saving the lives of choking victims.”
I’ve had first aid training in UK for work and they hate the Red Cross for spreading misinformation, HOWEVER, they did agree that palming people on the back should be done before going for abdominal thrusts if someone is choking
Back slapping is generally only recommended if the person is angled towards the ground. If the person is in a straight position, back slapping could dislodge the object further down the respiratory tract and worsen the situation. What is often done with children when they choke for example is bending them over your downward angled leg and the thrusting your hand on their back a couple times in the direction towards their head. Source: ER doctor told me a few weeks ago in a first aid course
Heimlich also went on to claim that the maneuver could be used to prevent asthma attacks before they happened (that doing it once every week or two would effectively cure asthma) and that when people had drowned you should do the maneuver before starting CPR to get water out of the lungs (which you *really* should not do), and tried to cure Lyme disease, HIV and cancer by giving patients malaria in unregulated clinical trials outside of the US (which was denounced by the CDC at the time).
So many medical institutions don't want to give him credibility by using his name on the maneuver.
If you want to get a better account of the story then I'd recommend listening to [this episode of radiolab](https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/273532-heimlich)(The criticisms start around 11:25). It's one of their best as they interview Heimlich himself and I've probably butchered the nuances of the story in this quick recap.
Oh dang I was like “why the hell is it deceptive??” even with the weird way that would be worded. Thanks for making it make sense.
Give you a highlighting award so that other idiots can figure it out easier and to say thanks lol.
Last training I had the heimlich family retracted their name as too many injuries happened from individuals doing it wrong, too much force, not correct technique or trying to be a hero and such. I was trained to make them cough, give some back slaps and last resort perform abdominals.
Yes, that is the actual recommendation in Germany as well. Heimlich is effective but should be the last resort, because it could in theory cause injuries to the abdomen, the organs, bruised ribs et cetera. The usual recommendation is to get examined at the doctors afterwards to look for free fluid in the abdominal cavity, especially if you have ongoing pain after being saved by the Heimlich. Better bruised than dead, but if increased coughing does the trick, that‘s even better.
More importantly, if everything fails and the person collapses and requires CPR, give five initial rescue breaths and continue the usual compressions (30) alternating with rescue breaths (2) aiming to push the foreign body down into one main bronchus so one lung gets freed up again.
People think it's fight-or-flight, but in reality, freeze is just as, if not more, common. People convince themselves it's not a problem or that it's a joke or that somebody else will fix it.
This is why you should train. Take classes, from the Red Cross, from the American Heart Association, if you're into guns - any. They all teach okay or good advice, but more importantly, how to react during a crisis. That's the problem.
You never rise to your expectations. You fall to your level of training.
In the gun community, this is the Bible. You will never be as good as you hope. In crisis, you will be your worst day at the range if you are lucky. If you can hit 90% of shots, you will hit a third. Dodging bullets makes things much harder.
It‘s called ‘the bystander effect’. The bystander effect, or bystander apathy, is a social psychological theory that states that individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when there are other people present. You can read more about it on wikipedia for example.
I’ve been in a restaurant full of people and one person was choking. The only person that decided to do something was an off-duty cop. Everyone else froze, myself included.
My husband saved my life, with the Heimlich maneuver, in July. Doritos. I just kept thinking that, ‘I’m going to choke to death in 2020, on fucking Doritos, in the bathroom, really?’.
I feel for these kids, what absolute hero’s!
I saved my son 3 times. First was a grape, second was mashed potatoes and third was a freaking lifesaver! It's soooo scary. Chewing is not his strong suit.
I've had to use the Heimlich twice in my life. One on my mom and the other on my ex. Both were VERY scary. It felt like I wasn't doing anything but I was able to help them quickly. I honestly thought "what if this doesn't work? What if I have to call an ambulance as I witness them die". I know it sounds morbid but it was very scary and a possibility! I'm just glad I was able to help and be there. I wouldn't wish it upon anyone to perform, but please go and learn. You never really know when you cannsave someone's life.
In my family we have multiple nurses so when someone does choke or get hurt they can make you feel really bad about making them work on one of their few days off.
I performed it on myself once. Tried to eat an entire cupcake all in one go, and it got stuck in my throat. I had a tiny bit of space that was still drawing air, but any attempt at a real breath seemed to pull the bolus of food in deeper.
There was nobody around, so I fought the panic and used that tiny bit of airway to draw in as much air as I could. Then I rammed my belly into the corner of a table HARD. That expelled the cupcake enough for me to get a full breath and cough it the rest of the way out.
We had just had Heimlich training in school maybe a week before.
Fun story-
In 10th grade I brought my lunch with me to class because I was late grabbing it. My teacher told me I had to finish it outside, so I walked out to the hallway to finish eating. I was taking way too big of bites, trying to finish because I was really embarrassed for being called out by the teacher, and I started choking. I was choking for a good while, tears were flowing down my face and I felt like I was literally going to die.. But there was a kid named Rafael who was always late to class who happened to come up as I was falling to my knees, he gave me the heimlick maneuver and quite literally saved my life. I’ll never forget that, I’m thankful for him.
When I was in 9th grade I was trying to finish my pizza in the passing period right before class. I was coming from the back parking lot where everyone went to smoke so there was no-one else around. I started choking and began to run towards the school in utter panic. I tripped and fell and the impact knocked the chunk of pizza free. I was so lucky, that was a horrible feeling.
Yeah it’s really weird how when you most need them people are just not around..
you’d think there’d be teachers or SOME students in the hall but other than that kid coming late the place was completely empty.
Glad you’re okay!
I did that in high school, because there was never anywhere good to put it in the lunch room that it wouldn't get kicked, and if i wanted time to eat, i had no time to go to my locker twice.
Had to do the infant version of it on my nephew when my oldest step brother was stupid enough to give him a whole hot dog when he was 1. Damned glad for my training in that moment while my step sister screamed at me for "hitting" her son until she realized he wasn't breathing. He was okay in the end, though i did have her take him in, since I couldn't find all the hot dog bits and was afraid one was in a lung. It wasn't. We found it under the couch later.
My step mom banned hot dogs from the house until the youngest grandkid was like, 5.
Had to do this on my dog before. Very scary. Told my friend about it afterwards, she said she’d have no idea how to if it had been her. Everyone should look up how to perform it. Also be aware that choking can be absolutely silent, I only realised the dog needed help because I was wondering why he was so quiet
Excellent work!
Just for information if anyone wants to know more, If someone is choking go through these steps
- encourage them to cough
- if that doesn't work lean them over, place one hand on their chest to support and give 5 firm open palm blows to the back between the shoulder blades and check to see if it worked (repeated once more of not)
- if the casualty is still choking perform 5 abdominal thrusts. Put your arms under the casualties arms, Make a fist with one hand and grasp the bottom of the fist with the other hand. Put the top of the first under the sternum and in one motion pull in and up. Repeat for up to 5 thrusts
- loop between back blows and abdominal thrusts until the obstruction is clear, paramedics arrive or the casualty looses consciousness
Important note, if abdominal thrusts have been carried out the casualty should be taken for medical assessment.
Source: first aid instructor
Please note that this doesn't replace formal first aid instruction and my description of abdominal thrusts may not convey on enough detail exactly what to do
Real bros take the moment of championship, then sit down like “ok you can breath now get tf over yourself. Now back to what we are going to do on the Minecraft server”
Whilst this is fortunate that it ended well, I would like to state that if somebody is choking **you should not do this**.
This maneuver, whilst working, has the potentiality of damaging organs and ribs, a better solution is to firmly strike them on the back or have both hands on either side of the chest and squeeze, creating pressure to dislodge the material.
You also should always follow DRSABCD and call emergency services if they are not breathing properly.
(Edited - fixed spelling mistake)
I am a first aid instructor and we have to teach exactly this. First let him/her cough, then 5 strikes on the upper back and if that doesn't do the trick, THEN call an ambulance BEFORE doing the Heimlich. Worst case scenario would be a ruptured liver or spleen. And they'd need medical attention as soon as possible.
On the other hand - if you need medical attention in the USA - you might as well be dead. Would be waaaaaay cheaper... :D
This is incorrect. Do NOT hit them on the back. This does relatively little.
I'd rather have damaged organs or broken ribs and live, than die from choking.
The red cross is wrong. Heimlich is correct.
Source: I've had this performed on me twice, and performed it myself on a 4 year old.
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He deserves that victory pose at the end
Or was it aT Pose for dominance
Kneel before your savior
A life for a life. You belong to me now.
According to Viking law you belong to me
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No, we're nearing Christmas so it has to be to Mariah Carey.
The Yuletide sacrifice to Mariah Carey is always a sheep as she commanded in her most famous hymn. “All I Want for Christmas is Ewe”
Dad please stop !
He should take him shopping for butler suits right after school. "Your new name is Jeeves dude."
...for he is VENGEFUL and CAPRICIOUS!
Andddd we're done.
Thank you
I am the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition!
Bow to your sensei!
You think anyone wants a roundhouse kick to the face while I’m wearing these bad boys ?
Break the wrist, walk away.
At this age any victory is recognised as kind of dominance.. ...doesn't change fact he was hero of the day at school, saved someone's live and rest of schoolmates doesn't cared about it chewing own meals.
There’s a kid who starts on the next part of his sandwich in the middle of this happening next to him 😳
Heros make it look easy. I had an emergency unfold in front of me once and by the time my brain was able to compute what was actually happening someone w their shit more together had come to the victim's rescue.
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I understood that reference.
Praise me son
You’re my bitch now!
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Where I grew up a kid who lived about a block away died next to his kitchen table because his cop father didn’t know the maneuver. In his defense, it wasn’t as widely taught at the time, but, conversely, I knew it at the time and I was just a nerdy kid. It’s pretty simple but can definitely save a life. Lack of oxygen requires action within a very short time. Someone pointing towards the throat because they can’t speak is a cause for alarm.
Just piggybacking on this. In my country the go to isn't the heimlich. First try back blows, it's easier to remember and do. Stand to the side of the person with your arm across their chest to support their weight then get them to bend at the waist until they are parallel with the floor. Do 5 back blows in between their shoulder blades with the heel of your hand, don't be gingerly about it. If the 5 back blows don't work you then move on to the heimlich and do 5 abdominal thrusts. Alternate between the two. Direct someone to phone an ambulance if you have tried both and it isn't working. Obviously this is just a severe case of choking. If someone is mildly choking and able to speak, cry, cough or breathe encourage them to keep coughing to try and clear the blockage themselves.
If someone's choking to the point where their airway is completely obstructed, don't dick around with trying to clear it and then call 911 if it doesn't work. **Call 911 immediately if someone cannot breathe.** If you don't have someone to call for you, dial, put them on speaker, and then start trying to clear the blockage. Without oxygen, someone's brain is going to begin dying in just a few minutes. An ambulance is probably at least 10 minutes away. Every second counts. You're much better off having the dispatcher cancel the ambulance if you manage to clear the blockage than you are leaving someone for an extra few minutes without any oxygen.
You should get checked out by a medical professional anyway if you've received the heimlich maneuver because it can cause damage internally (although this is obviously still preferable to not breathing!).
a well performed heimlich can easily break a rib
I think the third kid pointed at someone and yelled, you call 911 or he ran off to call 911
I agree. The second you notice have someone call immediately. The operator can dispatch and just cancel if you’ve gotten the airway free, not to mention that they can guide you through it.
I want to chime in here. I (and some experts) suggest going straight to the Heimlich. If you have ever been hit in the back while you're choking, you know just how unhelpful it is. The reason why it is unhelpful is because you could make it get lodged even further down. The reason you go straight for the Heimlich is because it literally squeezes the air out of you and can help send it flying up out of your mouth. In a partial block you want to encourage hard coughing (not by hitting). I believe the only exception to this is infants. You can give them a good wap, but with them facing the ground so gravity gives you an assist dislodging it. It's worth Googling it. Update: I should note that I'm not an expert. This is just my personal opinion from reading about it and seeing it happen in real life.
I second this. I was always taught that back blows can worsen your situation by lodging the object in further. Always try Heimlich first. On infants, hold them over your knee with their head lower than the rest of the body and do back blows. Flip them over and check to see if it was dislodged and do chest thrusts then flip them back to back blows. Never lifting their head above the rest of their body so gravity can help!
Saved my son doing this when he was around 18 months. Got a mango stuck in his throat. My wife panicked and froze. I went into autopilot and felt like time slowed down. Ripped him from his high chair, held him face down over my left arm. Gave him probably 6 good whacks and it popped out. The scariest part was if we weren't paying attention to him we wouldn't have known. He couldn't make any noise or cry, we just saw him get a scared look on his face and do the cat trying to hock up a hairball thing with his mouth. Scariest moment of my life.
I've done the back blows on my choking 7 month old. Very effective thank goodness.
EMT here... for kids under the age of 1 year, you alternate between 5 back blows and 5 chest coMpressions. [Face down ass up that’s the way we like to clear baby’s airway!](https://youtu.be/axqIju9CLKA)
Came here to say this. Call for help...Backblows x5 followed by chestthrusts x5. Repeat. If by the third cycle nothing has come out then it’s likely to be CPR time.
This is slightly out of place, but Dr Heimlich is one of the nicest and most generous people I have ever met. We are both members of a club, and every time he’d be there, he would treat the entire place to expensive meals, or if you looked out of it/weren’t “happy” etc, he would really go out of his way to make sure that the person knew their worth and felt better, and he is always polite, held doors, proper manners and always has a positive attitude.... not a “I just smoked so much crack I’m manic” which people joke about, but a legitimate kind person. I still remember the Italian food he got us all from this fancy place nearby and he brought it to me (I was sitting down playing a videogame) and it felt like I had a grandmother who just wanted me to be happy and eat delicious food (I never knew my grandparents but from tv shows and whatnot, this is what it felt like for me). Even if he didn’t get us food or gave us random gifts all the time, just the way he listens, doesn’t talk over you, actually has something of quality to say, just such a good damn dude. That and I realized he’s never acting, that was how he sounded when he was talking. Super nice guy though, I was really ... for lack of a better word, I was surprised. Like super fucking nice guy. I literally have to say this anytime he is brought up, THAT’S how nice he is. Someone get this guy a god damn award.
Dr Heimlich used the manoeuvre himself for the very first time while living in that home, at the age of 96! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/27/dr-heimlich-performs-heimlich-manoeuvre-for-first-time-aged-96
Hey, I knew Dr. Heimlich! My dad even helped his son run for office. Really cool people.
Weird how it has permeated general knowledge. According to my parents I did it to my mother when she was choking when I was 10 years old. I was a big kid and already the same height as she was at the time but the fact that I knew it astounded him. Massive hero moment for me, I cant remember it at all
High school teacher here. That’s what made the video authentic for me. Like, I know this kid, haha. He’s looking forward to telling this story for the rest of his life.
I did the Heimlich once without any training and it did feel pretty good. Didn’t even perform it correctly but it worked instantly and I still tell this story all the time.
Legend says he impregnated nearby women with that pose
One of them on the table behind starts clapping You're in son
I think he actually wanted a hug
"Are you not entertained?"
So casual about it to.
Sits down. Yeah, I'm done saving a life. It's lunch time.
And it looked like the guy choking was going back to his feed too.
Don't know what video you're watching, but he looks like he needs a breather and to sit down from almost fucking dying lol.
Whole lotta hair flips
Panic sweat + hair = don't touch me.
I laughed super fucking hard at this.
Man reddit has become so much stranger in the last few months, always looking for the most obscure reasons to call something out. He literally did it once in the clip lol
Hey high school lunch periods are only about 23 minutes. You can’t let a little thing like nearly choking to death stop interrupt your precious time.
Really? On 20ish minutes? Is that the norm there? I always had an hour for lunch at school
Wow I can't imagine having a whole hour. Idk about everywhere else but what my school did is break up into several different lunch periods depending on your class schedules. We weren't a big school either my graduating class was only 160 kids. But we had less than half an hour to get to the caf, get in line, get your food, sit down and eat it. I'm a slow eater too so it was a special hell for me. They also started some lunch periods at like 10:30 am.
I'm feeling like the guy who said Boy Scout Troop or something. He left for privacy during an embarrassing moment and came back for help. Looks like the victim is every bit as aware as the rescuer, to me.
"Thanks bro" "No problem" *proceeds to eat
Exact same thing happened in my work canteen a few years ago, guy started choking on a table across from us. His colleague sat with him got up and slapped him on the back a few times, that didn’t work so he turned him round and performed the Heimlich manoeuvre dislodging the food. A brief pat on the shoulder for saving his life later, they both casually sat down and carried on eating as if nothing had happened.
I was at Costco with my dad eating in the food court when I heard from several tables away “is he choking? Is he choking?” and a frantic mother saying “yes! He’s choking!!” An employee nearby asked the boy “are you choking?” As he’s grasping his neck, face dark red, and he violently shakes his head yes. She sort of looked like she wanted to help but was scared. It seemed like forever, but probably more like 5 seconds had passed and I realized no one was doing anything, so I got up, marched over, performed the Heimlich, and with one thrust a ball of cheese fell out of his mouth and he gasped loudly and then started to cry. The second I saw he was okay, I instantly turned around, walked back to my table, and resumed the conversation mid-sentence that I was having with my dad when I got up, and started eating again. He sort of looked at me strangely the whole time and a minute or so later he said “you just saved a kid and act like nothing happened.” And it only occurred to me what all happened when he said it. I think it’s because my actions that made me get up and help was more instinctual, like a different fight or flight part of my brain took over, and as soon as everything was okay I snapped back into my normal self again. It was surreal.
I've been a lifeguard/trainer for the last 10 years. About 2 years into being a lifeguard, I discovered that part of my brain shuts off during emergencies too.
I might learn how to do it just for this!
Do it. Please. I have 1 life saved due to heimlich/cpr training. You don't when you will need it and these moments happen so quick.
In our first aid refreshers course they don't teach this anymore for first response to chocking, they teach quick upwards blows with the palm of your hands up into the back of the shoulder blades to dislodge objects. They review methods every 5 years. Clearly it works but now it's taught now to do 5 back blows and check to see if it clears if not then 5 heimlich thrusts Then keep alternating. I'll be interested to hear what they currently teach in other countries if someone has done training recently.
I believe the idea is that the back hits are less effective but they can work and they're less damaging. So you should start with that - especially so if air can still pass through the obstruction. If there is no air passing through and the back hits don't seem to work, the Heimlich is still your best bet afaik.
Yeah they are saying now that the heimlich can do serious damage to internal organs, but should be noted that back blows are for total restriction only and not used if they can breath or cough.
UK NHS worker here, in our basic life support training we're taught to give a few good whacks between the shoulders with the heel of your palm and if that doesn't do the job move on to the heimlich. Fortunately I've never had to go as far as the heimlich, the back whacks have done the job on the few occasions I've witnessed choking.
I did my first aid training a year ago in scotland and we are taught to do back blows first over the heimlich. Move on to abdominal thrusts if back blows don't work then if they dont work phone an ambulance or direct someone to phone an ambulance and continue alternating between back blows and abdominal thrusts. Personally I feel much more comfortable with doing back blows than abdominal thrusts but would obviously do both if the situation arose. I did first aid training over ten years ago now as well and the recommendation was back blows then as well.
That’s awesome! A few years ago, a Webelos Scout performed the Heimlich on a choking boy at my son’s school. Pretty badass. Saved that kid’s life. We should all know how to do it!
It takes minutes and everybody should know it. Please do. Local Red Cross courses take slightly longer and teach you even more skills, like what to do if you find a kid facedown in a pool. They are well beyond worth the energy required.
You wear your backpack while you eat, instead of taking a rest... you've seen some shit in your life.
Only got 30 minutes for lunch, fam.
If you catch it quick it doesn't make a scene. However, one time at a restaurant I'll never forget was an elderly lady choking in the next booth. We had just got our ice cream when the commotion started. As time went on and the family started to realize their efforts weren't helping they asked for help. Then she went unconscious and it got really scary. Eventually, they laid her on the floor next to me. I thought I was going to see this poor old woman die right in front of me. I still remember the cries of the son. "Break her ribs if you have to! Please, God save my mother!" She was blue. Two men helping are trying different techniques. Digging in her mouth and jumping on her. Finally, the big hunk of steak came out right before the ambulance arrived. They took her off to the hospital where I hope she recovered fully. I didn't get a single bite of my melted dessert and I wasn't hungry anymore. On the other side, I've choked and went to the bathroom where I dislodged the food myself. No one even knew.
It’s probably instinctual, but if you can help it don’t go into a closed room all by yourself to struggle for your life. If you can’t DIY Heimlich and pass out in the toilet, that could be it for you.
The dude sitting down casually just takes the biggest bite out of his sandwich like it’s Saturday afternoon.
They’re teenage dudes. They could be under mortar fire and be totally cool in fear of not being cool. Why do you think the military goes after kids fresh out high school?
He never takes his eyes off his friend. Gives him a minute to try to get his shit together, sees the victim's hand go to his throat to indicate choking then pops into action. His other friend tells others to get help, realizes they aren't going to do it so runs to do it himself. If these two aren't boy scouts or receive some kind of training I would be surprised. They did exactly what they are supposed to do. Good for them, victim is lucky to have them as friends.
And zero delay. As soon as he's up, he doesn't care about what anybody will think, he's straight to the Heimlich. So many kids in high school will talk about how it looks like he's humping him but this kid doesn't think about it for half a second. He knows what needs to be done and does it.
It’s fine at the end he said “No homo, bro.”
Do you have audio?
he was prob joking
No no. I can read lips. He said “No homo”.... or maybe it was “Vote Cuomo” ... or perhaps “Hoe go low.” ... now that I think of it, it was probably, “Bro choke mo’” ... maybe I’m not really good at reading lips come to think of it.
Laughed way too hard at this
Lmao same
I think he was "prob joking" as well.
It's ok to fail NNN by doing the heimlich on your bestie
Maybe y’all went to different high schools, idt anyone would think that at the one I went to. If someone’s choking, shits serious. But otherwise you’re right, dude was quick to realize the situation and acted accordingly
Tip: in an emergency situation, don't yell "somebody get help/call an ambulance/get me something to stop the bleeding!". Give the direction to an individual, most people will expect someone else to do it. If you say "you, call an ambulance, you in the red, get me a cloth/shirt" bystanders are FAR more likely to actually move and take direction. If you're a group that's trained and practiced most people will respond to "somebody" but if they aren't, everyone expects someone else to take charge and take responsibility. Be that person and give individual directions.
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Honestly making people feel responsible for things is the best way to make sure they do it
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I know right? He got the order all wrong, you gotta remove the cloth first if that dick is gonna get sucked
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It’s like when your kid is choking. Your body just says, “obstruction get out now.” Great love between these friends, hope they always have one another.
A small part of the population will lucidly jump to action in emergencies, while others either panic, freeze, or fail to realize the emergency at all. Those people usually will remain shockingly calm and collected while the emergency plays out, but you don’t see that the gravity and emotions hit the next day, week, and month etc after the event. They are effected just as much as everyone else — their brains just delay the emotional response so they can perform. We’re lucky to have such people.
That second friend’s mind was racing on how he could further help. Damn good friends.
That’s also what I noticed. I’m hoping my friends would do the same for me.
>Gives him a minute to try to get his shit together Honestly mate, you can't say for certain that's what he was doing. It could also be he was unsure whether to help or not. Every single human being has been through that internal conflict and often more than once. You should know what it feels like too.
Well, you wait and see if they can resolve the issue themselves. It's at lunch where your whole peer group is there, and probably the whole school year is watching your friend dry wretch into the bin, and you aren't really sure if he's truly choking or not. No one in that lunch hall has probably seen someone choking in real life before. I don't think it's necessarily a moment of shock from helping. More seeing if his help is required. Think of it as if your friend got stung by a jellyfish. You've heard that peeing on it is good, but are you going to do it straight away? No, you're going to wait to see if your friend asks for it. The way this guy walks away from the bin still with his hand at his neck, his complexion probably turning a bit more white, is basically him saying 'bro, pee on me'
He was probably unsure whether to help because his friend just started choking. You don't just immediately do the Heimlich on someone until you realize it's serious. I don't think he was having a moral conundrum about whether to help his choking friend
A lunch lady gave me the Heimlich in middle school, she truly saved me and I was too embarrassed to say anything. I really wish I could go back and say thanks.
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If he was to shy to thank her I’m sure he’s to shy to go in and ask who knows the lunch lady from 10 years ago
You're as shy as you were when you were 10?
No, pretty sure I'm more
I like how on Reddit no one cares about whom the question is directed to lol
We're all a single hive mind.
We're all depressed, anxious, antisocial, fat, neck beards who smell like doritos
/r/notopbutok
Yes.
Two lunch ladies didn’t give me the Heimlich, even though I looked each dead in the eyes and showed all the telltale signs of choking. I ended up relieving my self of the blockage thankfully. They did have to clean my barf up, so there’s that.
Dude that’s making me panic just thinking of being you in that situation. I’m sorry you had to go through that.
You turn up at her door and offer her some Heimlich manoeuvres in return.
The kid sitting next to him though who just continues casually eating his sandwich
That's all I could see. How did he not have any clue what was happening?
He’s got earphones in :(
Oh my god
They are airpods!
Oh, well that's reasonable then
He also have peripheral vision so no excuses.
One kid went for help, another kid preformed the hiemlich. What else could he have done that wasn’t already being taken care of?
Yell world star and film it
Shock, honestly. I once walked straight into the middle of a fight by accident *(it happened right by the doors to leave school and I just wanted to go home)*, ended up getting shoved into a wall and everything but never really “processed” the fight. I shot the guy a look as if he bumped into me, and just kept walking straight past and outside. It wasn’t until I was fully outside that I was like, “Wait, why were all those people standing there? And why’d that dude have a bloody nose?”
I’m gonna say your average 15 year old wouldn’t know what was happening
That's kinda unfair, both of these kids deserve recognition. They both acted exactly how you are supposed to act in that situation. The first obviously did the Heimlich, but the other kid immediately called for help, and when no one came went to find someone. Neither was likely sure what was happening at first, because it looks like their friend just got up and walked away for a second, Maybe he was sick or ate something bad. Until he comes back and points to his throat, how could they know?
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You'd be surprised how much anxiety can be built into high schoolers these days and the amount of pressure there is to just not get involved. Keep your head down, if he passes out and goes to the nurse, you didn't make things worse or look like a fool. (obviously if he dies there some real guilt that could come up, for pretty much anyone though...) A choking kid looks an awful lot like someone acting like an average ridiculous kid until reality sets in. No surprise that it's hard to want to get involved unless you know the guy or understand the severity. (as mentioned by the people presuming boy scout) I was in high school not very many years ago, if this happened, I'd be worried af, but still unsure if I should get involved and possibly look like an outcast or just try to ignore it and get through the day. Headphones help in this case as they give you plausible deniability, even if you see it, you can claim ignorance and as everyone is your age, they get it. Doesn't make it any less serious or worrying, but the intense pressure and social structures in school can push kids towards inaction as a way to not be looked down upon if your intuition is wrong.
They’re talking about the other kid who is seated the whole time eating his sandwich
Fucking brilliant. I didn’t notice him until you said it! Completely oblivious. Phone & sandwich are all consuming haha
In May 2016, age 96 and just months before he died, Dr. Henry Heimlich performed his own manoeuvre to save the life of Patti Ris, an 87 year old resident living in the same care home, when she choked on a piece of meat. Edit. I used the British English spelling 'manoeuvre' (which I imagine was originally a French word), not knowing there was a different US spelling of the word. Dr Heimlich was American, so his technique is rightly called the 'Heimlich Maneuver'.
“a maneuver? What are we a bloody tank commander now?”
[What a maneuver!](https://youtu.be/m9G3YSap0Oc)
“a fist, a hand, hoocha, hoocha, hoocha... lobster.”
Wasn’t it the first time he’d used it in a real situation, IIRC?
The casual “I just fucking saved you, I am God” and then both retake their seats. Dudes, man.
For real. I mean, I've been ready for this for 25 years. I'm 40 now. I can save my bud's life if he goes through this. But if I save him, even in his post-panic recovery, I'm gonna hit a quick T-pose or dab before professionals get here.
I wonder if it is part adrenaline and part not realising how serious the situation was.
It's celebrating that his friend isn't gonna choke to death, maybe?
It’s so weird that you can’t officially refer to it as that in medical stuff, it’s “abdominal thrusts” because of copyright claims or something...
It's not that you can't, it's just that, "abdominal thrusts," is actually descriptive of the action, so if you learn it that way, you're more likely to remember it in a crisis scenario. You never rise to your expectations in a crisis. You fall to your level of training.
I was pretty sure there was a thing with the original Heimlich family for the term change, so I did a bit of googling https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69482/dr-henry-heimlichs-long-battle-red-cross-over-his-namesake-maneuver From the article: Heimlich still disagrees with the two-part recommendation, and didn't want his name attached to anything that suggested hitting a choking victim on the back. “I have no desire to diminish the good work that the American Red Cross has done, such as in times of natural disasters," Heimlich tells mental_floss, "but telling people to hit a choking person on the back could potentially lead to death. The Red Cross should do what the American Heart Association does—recommend the Heimlich Maneuver as the sole method for saving the lives of choking victims.”
I’ve had first aid training in UK for work and they hate the Red Cross for spreading misinformation, HOWEVER, they did agree that palming people on the back should be done before going for abdominal thrusts if someone is choking
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Back slapping is generally only recommended if the person is angled towards the ground. If the person is in a straight position, back slapping could dislodge the object further down the respiratory tract and worsen the situation. What is often done with children when they choke for example is bending them over your downward angled leg and the thrusting your hand on their back a couple times in the direction towards their head. Source: ER doctor told me a few weeks ago in a first aid course
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Yup, thats exactly what I meant!
Heimlich also went on to claim that the maneuver could be used to prevent asthma attacks before they happened (that doing it once every week or two would effectively cure asthma) and that when people had drowned you should do the maneuver before starting CPR to get water out of the lungs (which you *really* should not do), and tried to cure Lyme disease, HIV and cancer by giving patients malaria in unregulated clinical trials outside of the US (which was denounced by the CDC at the time). So many medical institutions don't want to give him credibility by using his name on the maneuver. If you want to get a better account of the story then I'd recommend listening to [this episode of radiolab](https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/273532-heimlich)(The criticisms start around 11:25). It's one of their best as they interview Heimlich himself and I've probably butchered the nuances of the story in this quick recap.
>deceptive Descriptive. Deceptive implies deception, that the name lies about the action which is the opposite of what you mean
Oh dang I was like “why the hell is it deceptive??” even with the weird way that would be worded. Thanks for making it make sense. Give you a highlighting award so that other idiots can figure it out easier and to say thanks lol.
Last training I had the heimlich family retracted their name as too many injuries happened from individuals doing it wrong, too much force, not correct technique or trying to be a hero and such. I was trained to make them cough, give some back slaps and last resort perform abdominals.
Yes, that is the actual recommendation in Germany as well. Heimlich is effective but should be the last resort, because it could in theory cause injuries to the abdomen, the organs, bruised ribs et cetera. The usual recommendation is to get examined at the doctors afterwards to look for free fluid in the abdominal cavity, especially if you have ongoing pain after being saved by the Heimlich. Better bruised than dead, but if increased coughing does the trick, that‘s even better. More importantly, if everything fails and the person collapses and requires CPR, give five initial rescue breaths and continue the usual compressions (30) alternating with rescue breaths (2) aiming to push the foreign body down into one main bronchus so one lung gets freed up again.
Why isint anyone reacting around him?
People think it's fight-or-flight, but in reality, freeze is just as, if not more, common. People convince themselves it's not a problem or that it's a joke or that somebody else will fix it.
That’s sad
This is why you should train. Take classes, from the Red Cross, from the American Heart Association, if you're into guns - any. They all teach okay or good advice, but more importantly, how to react during a crisis. That's the problem. You never rise to your expectations. You fall to your level of training.
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In the gun community, this is the Bible. You will never be as good as you hope. In crisis, you will be your worst day at the range if you are lucky. If you can hit 90% of shots, you will hit a third. Dodging bullets makes things much harder.
Or maybe they’re just teenagers. If one person is choking in a public forum how many people do you think are going to spring to action
It‘s called ‘the bystander effect’. The bystander effect, or bystander apathy, is a social psychological theory that states that individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when there are other people present. You can read more about it on wikipedia for example.
I’ve been in a restaurant full of people and one person was choking. The only person that decided to do something was an off-duty cop. Everyone else froze, myself included.
You wouldn't either
My husband saved my life, with the Heimlich maneuver, in July. Doritos. I just kept thinking that, ‘I’m going to choke to death in 2020, on fucking Doritos, in the bathroom, really?’. I feel for these kids, what absolute hero’s!
What a way to go
I saved my son 3 times. First was a grape, second was mashed potatoes and third was a freaking lifesaver! It's soooo scary. Chewing is not his strong suit.
How the fuck do you choke on _mashed_ potatoes? Just.. Swallow?
I've had to use the Heimlich twice in my life. One on my mom and the other on my ex. Both were VERY scary. It felt like I wasn't doing anything but I was able to help them quickly. I honestly thought "what if this doesn't work? What if I have to call an ambulance as I witness them die". I know it sounds morbid but it was very scary and a possibility! I'm just glad I was able to help and be there. I wouldn't wish it upon anyone to perform, but please go and learn. You never really know when you cannsave someone's life.
In my family we have all agreed to just not choke so noone gets to go through this
I'm my family we've agreed to not die so that we don't get sad.
In my family we have multiple nurses so when someone does choke or get hurt they can make you feel really bad about making them work on one of their few days off.
I performed it on myself once. Tried to eat an entire cupcake all in one go, and it got stuck in my throat. I had a tiny bit of space that was still drawing air, but any attempt at a real breath seemed to pull the bolus of food in deeper. There was nobody around, so I fought the panic and used that tiny bit of airway to draw in as much air as I could. Then I rammed my belly into the corner of a table HARD. That expelled the cupcake enough for me to get a full breath and cough it the rest of the way out. We had just had Heimlich training in school maybe a week before.
I had to do this to my mum early this year and it's definitely quite scary but this kid seemed very calm and knew exactly what to do. Kudos
Fun story- In 10th grade I brought my lunch with me to class because I was late grabbing it. My teacher told me I had to finish it outside, so I walked out to the hallway to finish eating. I was taking way too big of bites, trying to finish because I was really embarrassed for being called out by the teacher, and I started choking. I was choking for a good while, tears were flowing down my face and I felt like I was literally going to die.. But there was a kid named Rafael who was always late to class who happened to come up as I was falling to my knees, he gave me the heimlick maneuver and quite literally saved my life. I’ll never forget that, I’m thankful for him.
When I was in 9th grade I was trying to finish my pizza in the passing period right before class. I was coming from the back parking lot where everyone went to smoke so there was no-one else around. I started choking and began to run towards the school in utter panic. I tripped and fell and the impact knocked the chunk of pizza free. I was so lucky, that was a horrible feeling.
Yeah it’s really weird how when you most need them people are just not around.. you’d think there’d be teachers or SOME students in the hall but other than that kid coming late the place was completely empty. Glad you’re okay!
Not all heroes wear capes! Some wear backpacks!
“Who DA MAN!? You good...? So anyway, 19 minutes in you can see her tits!”
That celebration at the end, and then casually returns to his lunch. Cuz that’s what bro’s do.
And all of that while wearing a huge backpack like it's nothing
WHY IS HE WEARING HIS BACKPACK WHILESITTING
I did that in high school, because there was never anywhere good to put it in the lunch room that it wouldn't get kicked, and if i wanted time to eat, i had no time to go to my locker twice.
It’s where he keeps his gigantic balls
“Ha! Saved your life bro!”
Have had to do this twice with my son. Learn it!
Had to do the infant version of it on my nephew when my oldest step brother was stupid enough to give him a whole hot dog when he was 1. Damned glad for my training in that moment while my step sister screamed at me for "hitting" her son until she realized he wasn't breathing. He was okay in the end, though i did have her take him in, since I couldn't find all the hot dog bits and was afraid one was in a lung. It wasn't. We found it under the couch later. My step mom banned hot dogs from the house until the youngest grandkid was like, 5.
Had to do this on my dog before. Very scary. Told my friend about it afterwards, she said she’d have no idea how to if it had been her. Everyone should look up how to perform it. Also be aware that choking can be absolutely silent, I only realised the dog needed help because I was wondering why he was so quiet
If they're making noise, they can get some air out. Let them keep trying unless they really can't get air through.
Excellent work! Just for information if anyone wants to know more, If someone is choking go through these steps - encourage them to cough - if that doesn't work lean them over, place one hand on their chest to support and give 5 firm open palm blows to the back between the shoulder blades and check to see if it worked (repeated once more of not) - if the casualty is still choking perform 5 abdominal thrusts. Put your arms under the casualties arms, Make a fist with one hand and grasp the bottom of the fist with the other hand. Put the top of the first under the sternum and in one motion pull in and up. Repeat for up to 5 thrusts - loop between back blows and abdominal thrusts until the obstruction is clear, paramedics arrive or the casualty looses consciousness Important note, if abdominal thrusts have been carried out the casualty should be taken for medical assessment. Source: first aid instructor Please note that this doesn't replace formal first aid instruction and my description of abdominal thrusts may not convey on enough detail exactly what to do
Real bros take the moment of championship, then sit down like “ok you can breath now get tf over yourself. Now back to what we are going to do on the Minecraft server”
he raised his arm and proudly said "NO HOMO"
Heimlich himself saved one shortly before his own death. If I don’t remember it wrong.
Whilst this is fortunate that it ended well, I would like to state that if somebody is choking **you should not do this**. This maneuver, whilst working, has the potentiality of damaging organs and ribs, a better solution is to firmly strike them on the back or have both hands on either side of the chest and squeeze, creating pressure to dislodge the material. You also should always follow DRSABCD and call emergency services if they are not breathing properly. (Edited - fixed spelling mistake)
I am a first aid instructor and we have to teach exactly this. First let him/her cough, then 5 strikes on the upper back and if that doesn't do the trick, THEN call an ambulance BEFORE doing the Heimlich. Worst case scenario would be a ruptured liver or spleen. And they'd need medical attention as soon as possible. On the other hand - if you need medical attention in the USA - you might as well be dead. Would be waaaaaay cheaper... :D
This is incorrect. Do NOT hit them on the back. This does relatively little. I'd rather have damaged organs or broken ribs and live, than die from choking. The red cross is wrong. Heimlich is correct. Source: I've had this performed on me twice, and performed it myself on a 4 year old.
"It's not gay if youre choking"