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	Abdominal thrusts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Heimlich Maneuver, also known as abdominal thrusts, is a first aid procedure for clearing an obstructed airway.
		Briefly, a person performing the Heimlich maneuver uses their hands to exert pressure on the bottom of the diaphragm.
		To perform the Heimlich maneuver on a child less than one year old, the child is positioned on their back.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heimlich_maneuver (1102 words)

	Heimlich Maneuver \| AHealthyMe.com
		The Heimlich maneuver is an emergency procedure for removing a foreign object lodged in the airway that is preventing a person from breathing.
		The theory behind the Heimlich maneuver is that by compressing the abdomen below the level of the diaphragm, air is forced under pressure out of the lungs dislodging the obstruction in the trachea and bringing the foreign material back up into the mouth.
		To apply the Heimlich maneuver to oneself, one should make a fist with one hand and place it in the middle of the body at a spot above the navel and below the breastbone, then grasp the fist with the other hand and push sharply inward and upward.
	www.ahealthyme.com /topic/topic100586915 (1303 words)

	The Heimlich Controversy in Near-Drowning Resuscitation
		Heimlich advocates that given the low complication rate associated with the Heimlich Maneuver and the inability of rescuers to readily determine if a drowning victim's airway is blocked by fluid, the Heimlich Maneuver should be applied as the first step to ensure the airway is clear.
		The committee concludes that, although the Heimlich maneuver is useful for the removal of aspirated solid foreign bodies, there is no evidence that death from drowning is frequently caused by aspiration of a solid foreign body that is not effectively treated by the current ECC recommendations.
		Moreover, because there is no evidence to support Heimlich's hypothesis that substantial amounts of water are aspirated by near-drowning victims or that such aspirated liquid causes brain damage and death, the committee finds that the available evidence does not support routine use of the Heimlich maneuver in the care of near-drowning victims.
	www.lifesaving.com /issues/articles/23heimlich_controversy.html (597 words)

	Off the deep end (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was 1985, and Heimlich had already won a major victory when U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop held a press conference to announce that the Heimlich maneuver was the approved method for dislodging solid objects from the windpipes of choking victims.
		Heimlich responded by threatening to go to the media with claims that the same mistake made in regard to choking was recurring.
		The 1985 panel concluded that it was necessary to conduct a thorough study to determine the usefulness of the Heimlich maneuver in treating near-drowning victims.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=7079 (5145 words)

	The Heimlich Maneuver for Asthma
		Pushing up on the diaphragm with the Heimlich maneuver compresses the lungs, expelling trapped air and the flow carries away mucous plugs, thus clearing the airway and ending the asthma attack.
		In performing the maneuver, you press up on the diaphragm, which compresses the lungs, causing a flow of air that expels a choking object that is blocking the airway.
		The maneuver in drowning is recommended by the National Pool and Water Park Assn. (Ellis and Associates), which certifies lifeguards to use it as the first step in treating drowning victims.
	www.iglou.com /heimlich/hm4asth.htm (821 words)

	Alternative Medicine Review: Letter to the Editor - usage of the Heimlich Maneuver to stop and prevent asthma attacks
		The Heimlich Maneuver overcomes asthma attacks as follows: compression of the lungs expels the air trapped distal to the mucous plugs, causing a flow of air which carries the mucus into the larger airways, eliminating the obstruction.
		The Heimlich Maneuver consists of pressing upward on the diaphragm.[1] The diaphragm is forced into the chest, diminishing the volume of the chest cavity.
		In the original 1973 studies, when the Heimlich Maneuver was first devised, it was shown the Maneuver expelled an average of 940 cc of air in 1/4 of a second.[2] That is a flow rate of 205 liters per minute which is proven to be sufficient to expel a solid foreign body or mucous plugs.
	articles.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FDN/is_3_6/ai_76487128 (1194 words)

	clevescene.com \| \| Feature \| Heimlich's Maneuver \| 2004-08-11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		No matter, Heimlich had already clashed with the medical establishment in the mid-'70s, when he proposed the maneuver for choking in place of backslaps.
		Heimlich pushes on, furiously insisting that CPR advocates are condoning a veritable massacre -- 1,000 dead kids a year -- by not employing his maneuver at beaches and pools.
		Patrick claims to be the co-inventor of the Heimlich maneuver for choking and says that his contributions have been covered up by Heimlich himself, who wanted sole credit.
	www.clevescene.com /issues/2004-08-11/feature.html (796 words)

	LIFESTYLES: Doctor makes push for Heimlich maneuver to guard against drowning
		Heimlich says the same thing happened during his campaign 20 years ago to popularize the abdominal-thrust maneuver for choking emergencies.
		Heimlich began promoting the Heimlich maneuver for choking in 1974, but the Red Cross kept teaching "back slaps" to treat choking until 1986.
		According to Heimlich, court settlements have already been reached in certain cases of drowning deaths, in which swimming facilities were required to pay sums because their lifeguards did not immediately do the Heimlich maneuver, but did CPR instead.
	www.reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/1997/Jul-01-Tue-1997/lifestyles/5368109.html (789 words)

	Heimlich Maneuver
		To simplify training of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the Heimlich maneuver is recommended for layperson rescuer use in clearing a blocked airway in conscious adults and children from ages 1 to 18.
		The Heimlich maneuver is also recommended for healthcare providers to use with unresponsive adult and child (but not infant) victims.
		The Heimlich maneuver lifts the diaphragm and forces enough air from the lungs to create an artificial cough.
	www.americanheart.org /presenter.jhtml?identifier=4605 (197 words)

	Salt Lake City Weekly - The Trouble With Henry
		Heimlich contends that mouth-to-mouth resuscitation is useless without first plying his maneuver to remove trapped water from drowning victims’ lungs.
		Heimlich, who hasn’t held a license to practice medicine in Ohio since 2002, in 2004 told a reporter for Creators Syndicate Inc., that studies are currently under way to demonstrate the benefits of the maneuver for asthmatics.
		Heimlich’s poster child for the asthma maneuver—a 12-year-old Kaysville, Utah, girl featured prominently in a testimonial on his Website—happens to be the granddaughter of a “dear friend” of Dr. Gibbons, who vouches for the maneuver, and teaches it whenever he has the opportunity.
	www.slweekly.com /editorial/2004/city_2004-12-30.cfm (1965 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Heimlich maneuver can prevent drowning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Heimlich maneuver, the universally preferred technique used to aid choking victims, can also be used to save drowning victims' lives as well, the Heimlich Institute announced yesterday.
		Heimlich cites two tragic drowning cases from 1998, in which a 13-month-old from Kentucky and a 9-month-old from Ohio fell into buckets of water and drowned.
		If the mothers had used the Heimlich maneuver to clear water from the lungs, statistics show the children would probably have survived, the celebrated doctor claims.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=18016 (350 words)

	THE HEIMLICH MANEUVER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Heimlich maneuver was developed by Dr. Henry Heimlich, a professor of clinical sciences at Xavier University in Cincinnati, and it is so easy to learn that even a child can perform it.
		If you are to use the Heimlich maneuver, you must be able to recognize when a person has a piece of food or some other object caught in the windpipe.
		The purpose of the Heimlich maneuver is to create a strong enough burst of air from the lungs to free whatever is stuck in the windpipe.
	academic.udayton.edu /ComAssess/Cmm/2_C111/ISTranscript.htm (1077 words)

	PCRM--News--Health--001130
		If the mothers had used the Heimlich Maneuver to clear water from the lungs, statistics show the children would probably have survived.
		While a growing number of lifeguards are being trained to use the Heimlich Maneuver, Dr. Heimlich adds, many Americans still mistakenly believe that CPR is the first step to rescue a drowning victim.
		The Heimlich Maneuver consists of pressing the victim's diaphragm upward, which diminishes the volume of the chest cavity and compresses the lungs uniformly.
	www.pcrm.org /news/health001130.html (345 words)

	The Heimlich Maneuver for Drowning - Scientific Facts
		Ellis adopted the Heimlich maneuver as the first step in their resuscitation protocol on January 1, 1995 after conducting an extensive examination of scientific studies of drowning.
		The Maneuver should be performed until water no longer flows from the mouth, which usually occurs after 2-4 applications, over a period of 4-6 seconds.
		Heimlich maneuvers remove the water from the lungs in four to six seconds.
	www.iglou.com /heimlich/drncrc.htm (2254 words)

	University of Miami School of Medicine - Glossary - Heimlich maneuver
		Heimlich maneuver: An emergency treatment for obstruction of the airway in adults.
		To perform the Heimlich maneuver, stand behind the victim, wrap your arms around their waist, makes a fist with one hand and holds the fist with the thumb side just below the breast bone.
		In the early 1970s the American surgeon Henry Heimlich noted that food and other objects that caused choking by blocking the airway from the mouth to the lungs were not expelled by giving sharp blows to the back.
	www.med.miami.edu /glossary/art.asp?articlekey=13181 (203 words)

	Heimlich maneuver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Heimlich Institute A non-profit organization involved in medical research on: the Heimlich maneuver for choking, drowning and asthma; malariotherapy for HIV and Lyme disease; and the Heimlich MicroTrach for oxygen delivery in lung disease.
		Choking Instructions on the Heimlich maneuver for adults, children, infants and pregnant women.
		The Combat Maneuver Training Center Training the world's best to be the world's finest.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Heimlich_maneuver.html (252 words)

	Lancaster General Hospital - Choking and the Heimlich Maneuver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Heimlich maneuver, a series of under-the-diaphragm abdominal thrusts, is recommended for a person who is choking on a piece of food or a foreign object.
		The Heimlich maneuver is the only method for clearing a blocked airway currently recommended for adults by the American Heart Association and the American Red Cross.
		The Heimlich maneuver is simple to learn and is often taught during first-aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) classes.
	www.lancastergeneral.org /content/greystone_20959.asp (495 words)

	The Toads Favorite Fire Pads - Heimlich Maneuver Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Heimlich maneuver is the most effective way to remove something stuck in an adult's or older child's throat.
		Although the Heimlich maneuver is simple and effective, it can be painful for and even injurious to the victim.
		Since the Heimlich manuever can be traumatic for the victim, you can't practice the full manuever on another person to prepare for the real event.
	www.toadspad.net /ems/heimlich-maneuver.html (400 words)

	Heimlich maneuver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This compresses the lungs and exerts pressure on anyobject lodged in the trachea, hopefully expelling it.
		A person may also perform the Heimlich on themselves by leaning their upper abdomen against a fixed object (such as a railingor the back of a chair) and repeatedly thrusting their body downward against the object until they expel the obstruction.
		If the victim is unconscious, lying down, or too obese for the first aid providerto wrap their arms around, the person giving the Heimlich maneuver positions rolls the victim onto their back and straddles thevictim's hips.
	www.therfcc.org /heimlich-maneuver-17934.html (629 words)

	Healthopedia.com - Heimlich Maneuver on Self (Heimlich Maneuver)
		The Heimlich maneuver is an emergency method of removing food or other foreign objects from the airway to prevent suffocation.
		The Heimlich maneuver can be performed on oneself using several different methods.
		One method is to place the thumb side of the fist below the rib cage and above the navel, grasp the fist with the other hand, and press the fist into the abdomen with an upward thrusting motion, repeating this motion until the object is expelled.
	www.healthopedia.com /heimlich-maneuver-on-self (285 words)

	Heimlich maneuver on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		If the victim is standing, the rescuer wraps his (or her) arms around the victim's waist; making a fist with one hand and placing the thumb side of the fist against the abdomen just above the navel, the rescuer grasps the fist with the other hand and presses in with firm, quick, upward thrusts.
		Heimlich Institute Honors RBS for Lifesaving Ad; Royal Bank of Scotland TV Spot Features Heimlich Maneuver in Making Point: Less Talk, More Action.
		John saved his mother's life by using the Heimlich maneuver that he saw on a cartoon and had practiced with his dad.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/Heimlichm.asp (411 words)

	Bragg Live Foods & The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle - The Heimlich Maneuver
		The Heimlich is also handy for jump-starting the heart in heart attack victims; then continue mouth-to-mouth CPR until emergency help arrives.
		When the diaphragm of an asthma attack victim is pushed up with the Heimlich Maneuver (whether self-applied or not), the lungs become compressed.
		When the Maneuver is performed on asthmatics, do it gently, because you are expelling mucus and trapped air - not a stuck food object or lungs full of water.
	www.bragg.com /healthinfo/heimlichmanFS.html (489 words)

	NameTraq \| Last Name: Heimlich
		Thanks to learning the Heimlich Maneuver, he recently saved his little brother, Evitt, from choking after a piece of deer sausage became lodged in the...
		He used the Heimlich maneuver -- a lifesaving technique in which the rescuer grabs the choking victim around the abdomen and pulls upward -- to dislodge the...
		The woman said she then performed the Heimlich maneuver on the man and a macadamia nut popped out of his mouth.
	www.nametraq.com /genealogy_jan04/H/Heimlich.shtml (1374 words)

	Heimlich Maneuver Stops Asthma Attacks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pushing up on the diaphragm with the Heimlich Maneuver compresses the lungs, expelling trapped air and mucous plugs, thus clearing the airway and ending the asthma attack.
		Currently, the Heimlich Institute is studying asthma patients who are performing the maneuver several times a day on themselves, to keep their lungs clear of mucus, preventing both asthma attacks and wheezing.
		The Heimlich Maneuver has been credited with saving the lives of tens of thousands of choking and drowning victims since 1974, when it was first announced in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
	www.docguide.com /dg.nsf/PrintPrint/27DEB16DE3B89A98852563BD00694EDA (493 words)

	PERFORMING THE HEIMLICH MANEUVER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Heimlich maneuver is set of steps you can use to help a person who is choking.
		The goal of the Heimlich maneuver is to push air out of the lungs in a forceful "cough." This "cough" should pop the object the person is choking on out of the airway, like a cork from a bottle.
		The Heimlich maneuver is used on a child and an adult.
	www.medformation.com /ac/mm_qdis.nsf/qd/nd2513g.htm (1757 words)

	* Heimlich maneuver - (Disease): Definition
		The Heimlich maneuver is an emergency technique for preventing suffocation when a victim's airway (windpipe) becomes blocked by a piece of food or other object...
		Heimlich maneuverAn emergency procedure for removing a foreign object lodged in the airway that is preventing the person from breathing.
		Has he or she learned to perform CPR, the Heimlich maneuver (if you have a toddler or older child), and other emergency procedures...
	en.mimi.hu /disease/heimlich_maneuver.html (250 words)

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