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I just heard it on the news. It said that he finally got to use the Heimlich maneuver to save a life--for the first time. It was recently in some sort of a senior facility. The woman he saved said that God must have placed him sitting next to her for a reason. Many thousands of lives have been saved by this man's discovery.
Wow, read the article! It's not the only great thing this man did--go back and read what he did.
"Dr. Henry J. Heimlich, Famous for Antichoking Technique, Dies at 96" (that's the headline.)
To say 100,000 lives were saved is surely an understatement. I used it more than once on my wife who was seriously choking and had a tendency to choke so I learned how to do it. Once my 3 year old daughter was with us at a mall food court and my wife had a serious choking episode. I did the Heimlich thing and noticed that there was a man standing next to my daughter. It worked and my wife was OK. When I looked back at my daughter the guy was gone. I asked her who he was and she said "an angel" --- maybe so.
He spent a good chunk of his life fighting the bastards at the Red Cross.
Quote:
Heimlich vs. Mouth-to-Mouth in Drownings
By JANE E. BRODY
Published: June 29, 1994
WHEN a drowning person is pulled from the water, what is the first thing a rescuer should do? Ask Dr. Henry Heimlich, world famous for the maneuver that has saved the lives of countless choking victims, and he will tell you, "Do the Heimlich maneuver." Dr. Heimlich says it will get out the water inhaled by most drowning victims. If not, Dr. Heimlich insists, mouth-to-mouth breathing will do no good because it will be impossible to get air into the alveoli, or air sacs, of the victim's lungs.
But the American Red Cross says otherwise, as do the six medical organizations that set the standards on which the Red Cross bases its advice.
He also had a famous cousin, Anson Williams Heimlich, who dropped his last name as an actor. Best known for playing Potsie on Happy Days--most of you are probably too young to remember that show.
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