Heimlich maneuver

Noun

Meaning

an emergency procedure to help someone who is choking because food is lodged in the trachea

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Examples

“So I quickly turned the man around and proceeded to give him the Heimlich maneuver, but I wasn’t able to dislodge the food.” Source: Internet

Freeman stepped in and used the Heimlich maneuver to save the man. Source: Internet

When I got the family up to a warm place, they told me their son had popped a hard candy in his mouth and it got stuck in his throat, wouldn’t go down, wouldn’t come up, he was wheezing and they had tried the Heimlich maneuver, but to no avail. Source: Internet

Terrill said she plans to learn the Heimlich maneuver to avoid future accidents. Source: Internet

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