How To Stop Someone Choking
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How To Stop Someone Choking
In this Videojug film Dr Ranj Singh, NHS doctor and media medic, talks you through what you should do if someone is choking. This includes separate information on how to deal with choking in children under the age of 1 year.
Top Tips
- You need to act quickly to establish whether this is mild choking, where you may still have a effective cough, or whether it is a severe case of choking, where the cough may be ineffective or the person might not be able to breathe.
- In people over the age of one year, begin by administering five back blows. If this is not effective, you can administer the Heimlich manoeuvre.
- In children under the age of 1 year, lay the child face downwards on the arm and deliver five back slaps. If that does not work administer chest thrusts.