CINCINNATI (AP) — The 96-year-old Cincinnati surgeon credited with developing his namesake Heimlich maneuver recently used the emergency technique for the first time himself to save a woman choking on food at his senior living center.
Dr. Henry Heimlich told The Cincinnati Enquirer (http://cin.ci/1U0lAx2) in an interview Thursday he has demonstrated the well-known maneuver many times through the years but had never before used it on a person who was choking.
An employee at the Deupree House in Cincinnati where Heimlich lives says the retired chest surgeon was in the room when an 87-year-old woman began choking. The employee says Heimlich dislodged a piece of hamburger from the woman’s airway and she quickly recovered.
Heimlich says it made him appreciate how wonderful it has been “to be able to save all those lives.”
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Information from: The Cincinnati Enquirer, http://www.enquirer.com
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Great story. Physicians are not only knowledgeable, but able to think clearly during a stressful and chaotic moment. Good for Dr. Heimlich!!
Now that’s just wild. I hope he got her going and then broke into an end-zone dance of self-impressed joy, but that’s probably not how it happened. :
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Thomas Edison also insisted on readling only by candlelight.
Ha! Bravo Dr. Heimlich! Age, no bar to heroics…
My wonderful kid is alive today thanks to this man. When he was much younger (my kid, that is) he was choking on a piece of ravioli (a raviolum?)…I got to him in time, performed the Heimlich maneuver, the pasta was ejected and went sailing in a majestic arc across the room, and the rest is history. Thank you, Dr. Heimlich!