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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Help! I'm choking! Does someone know the Heimlich maneuver?

You've seen it done in movies. You probably did it when you were playing doctor as a kid (and on this note, I would like to apologize to my little sister who is still traumatized from our childhood fun, which ended in spit up Twizzlers).

But do you really know how to do the Heimlich maneuver?

Yesterday, on Good Morning America, senior health and medical editor, Dr. Richard Besser demonstrated how to save a choking victim - whether that person is an adult, a pregnant woman or a child.


After you are educated on the Heimlich maneuver, run down to your local American Red Cross chapter and take a first aid and CPR class. You'll learn how to treat wounds, save someone from choking and... you guessed it, how to save a life.

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