The 'Five and Five', or most commonly the Heimlich maneuver, is a first-aid method for choking — when a person can’t breathe because food, a toy or another foreign item is blocking their throat or ...

There’s been a recent push among manufacturers of so-called anti-choking devices that have tirelessly been lobbying state and local elected officials across the country to require that schools have ...

NEW YORK — It was the scariest choking incident David Palumbo had ever seen. The 88-year-old man had been dining at a Providence, Rhode Island, Italian restaurant in September 2019. Now he was ...

Oklahoma Children’s Hospital OU Health physician explains choking warning signs, first aid steps and foods that pose the ...

LINDALE, Texas (KETK) – As the Lindale community continues to mourn the loss of 8-year-old Adrian Thompson after suffering a choking emergency, first aid training has become a wide topic of discussion ...

After one of his students started choking on Friday, April 9, sixth grade Middlebrook teacher Darren Gunn performed the Heimlich maneuver, dislodging whatever was in the student’s throat. According to ...

Dr. Henry Heimlich, who helped develop the Heimlich Heroes program to teach sixth-graders how to save people from choking, is shown in this 2012 file photo. Heimlich died Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016, at ...