Henry J. Heimlich, inventor of lifesaving technique for choking victims, dies at 96
Source: Washington Post
Henry J. Heimlich, inventor of lifesaving technique for choking victims, dies at 96
By Sindya H. Bhanoo December 17 at 1:31 PM
Henry J. Heimlich, the Cincinnati surgeon whose bearhug maneuver has been credited with saving the lives of tens of thousands of choking victims but whose aggressive self-promotion and unorthodox medical ideas cast a shadow over his legacy, died Dec. 17 in Cincinnati. He was 96. ... The death was announced by his son.
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Dr. Heimlich knew that air remained in the lungs after an exhalation. That air, he believed, could be used to expel an object. He experimented on an anesthetized beagle and eventually realized that with an upward thrust into the soft tissue under the diaphragm, an object could be dislodged from the throat.
The maneuver is elementary, as the doctor wanted it to be. The rescuer stands behind the choking victim, with the rescuer’s arms around the victim’s waist and then delivers a sharp, upward abdominal thrust, just above the belly button.
He wrote about the first-aid technique in the June 1974 issue of Emergency Medicine. He explained how the maneuver worked and urged readers to send him success stories. He sent the article to science and health writers in the mainstream press and said that more than 2,000 stories of being saved by the maneuver came back within a year.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/henry-j-heimlich-inventor-of-lifesaving-technique-for-choking-victims-dies-at-96/2016/12/17/8ec77758-243c-11e6-8690-f14ca9de2972_story.html
Previously at DU:
Dr Henry Heimlich uses Heimlich manoeuvre for first time, aged 96
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027860462
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I'm surprised the Mayo Clinic would list it as the first thing to try
How many lives have been saved by this man indirectly? I believe it was estimated that in the US alone thousands each year...imagine in the world and how many over 40 years....
Then you have Comrade Trumpski...how many lives has that man saved or what has he contributed to humanity and making this a better world?
It should be a person like Henry Heimlich that would be the President-elect. Someone to admire, respect...instead we have a man who will likely kill as many people as Heimlih saved.
This has been a cruel year...
Damn... it really has
Hubby (who had never before performed it) saved me from choking to death a few years ago. Close call!!
Not many.
but only a few women knew about it 
