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Re:Dr Heimlich saves choking woman with manoeuvre he invented by anon4this1 on Friday May 27, 2016 @03:13PM (#11788214)
Well, I'm an anaesthetist, and have heard this argument.

I personally did a heimlich maneuvere on a hospital inpatient who was blue and choking on a big bit of bread, and the bread came out and he turned pink again.

So from my samples size of N=1, it works 100% of the time. I would like to know the high quality randomized controlled trials which show that it doesn't?

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Re:Dr Heimlich saves choking woman with manoeuvre he invented by MustardTiger on Friday May 27, 2016 @04:12PM (#11788609)
Just like Lisa's rock. Nothing works 100% of the time, and obviously they do not use "high quality randomized controlled trials" since killing people is not ethical. Current recommendations are to begin with back blows.
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