First Aid for a Choking Conscious Adult or Child Show
Step 1. Determine if the person can speak or cough. If you see an object in the throat or mouth, remove it. If not, proceed to the next step. Step 2. Perform an abdominal thrust (Heimlich Maneuver) repeatedly until the foreign body is expelled.
Step 3. For a responsive pregnant victim or any victim you cannot get your arms around or for who abdominal thrusts are not effective, give chest thrusts from behind the victim. Avoid squeezing the ribs with your arms. If the person becomes unresponsive (or is found unresponsive), lower the person to the ground, expose the chest and start CPR with 30 chest compressions. Look inside the mouth each time you open the mouth to give breaths and remove any object seen.
As you start weaning your baby and they begin eating solid foods or playing with small objects, they may be at risk of choking. Find out what to look for and what to do. When someone is choking, they may be unable to breathe properly. Find out what to look for and what to do. If a child is unresponsive and not breathing normally you will need to call 999 or 112 for emergency help and perform child CPR straight away. Learn what to do.
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Figure 16: Abdominal Abdominal ThrustsThese steps should only be used when a person is responsive and older than one year of age. To properly perform the abdominal thrusts, do the following:
If you can see a foreign object in the individual’s mouth and can easily remove it, then do it. Watch and feel for breathing to begin. If the individual does not begin breathing, continue to provide CPR and rescue breaths until help arrives. Choking in InfantsChoking In Infants
For chest compressions, do the following:In a choking but responsive infant less than one-year-old, back blows and chest thrusts are used instead of abdominal thrusts. See Table 4 for rescue actions for choking in infants. To provide back blows and chest thrusts, do the following:
What is the correct hand placement to perform abdominal thrusts on a choking child?Abdominal thrusts for children over 1 year
Stand or kneel behind your child. Place your arms under the child's arms and around their upper abdomen. Clench your fist and place it between the navel and ribs. Grasp this hand with your other hand and pull sharply inwards and upwards.
What is the correct position for giving thrusts to a child who is still responding?Give up to five abdominal thrusts: hold the child around the waist and pull inwards and upwards above their belly button. Abdominal thrusts squeeze the air out of the lungs and may dislodge the blockage.
What position do you put a choking baby in?Lay the infant face down, along your forearm. Use your thigh or lap for support. Hold the infant's chest in your hand and jaw with your fingers. Point the infant's head downward, lower than the body.
Where on the person's abdomen should you give abdominal thrusts?Place your fist, thumb side in, just above the person's navel (belly button). Grasp the fist tightly with your other hand. Make quick, upward and inward thrusts with your fist.
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