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    The document provides instructions for treating choking in adults, children and infants. It details how to perform abdominal thrusts for adults and chest thrusts for infants. It emphasizes the importance of responding quickly when someone is choking and calls for training so people know what to do in an emergency.

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    The document provides instructions for treating choking in adults, children and infants. It details how to perform abdominal thrusts for adults and chest thrusts for infants. It emphasizes the importance of responding quickly when someone is choking and calls for training so people know what to do in an emergency.

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    Choking

    © 2016 National Safety Council


    Choking
    Choking is the 4th leading cause of
    unintentional death in the U.S.1
    Knowing how to help can save a
    life.

    2 Injury
    1 Facts
    © 2016 National
    ® 2015 Edition
    Safety Council
    Care for Choking
    Adults and Children
    1. Stand behind the victim with one leg
    forward between the victim’s legs. Keep
    your head slightly to one side and reach
    around the abdomen.
    2. Make a fist with one hand and grasp it
    with the other (thumb side into abdomen)
    just above the navel.
    3. Thrust inward and upward into the
    abdomen with quick jerks. Continue until
    the victim expels the object or becomes
    unresponsive.
    4. For a responsive pregnant victim, or any
    victim you cannot get your arms around,
    give chest thrusts.
    3 © 2016 National Safety Council
    Helping a responsive
    adult or child victim…
    When you see a responsive adult or child victim
    • Coughing, wheezing, having difficulty breathing
    • Clutching at the throat
    • Pale or bluish in coloring around mouth and nail beds

    Do this first:
    - If coughing, encourage continued coughing to clear the
    object.
    - If not coughing, ask if the victim is choking or can
    speak. If not, get
    victim’s consent to help and give abdominal thrusts.

    If the victim becomes unresponsive - call or


    have someone call 9-1-1. Then provide CPR,
    beginning with chest compressions. Check mouth
    4 for object before giving breaths.
    © 2016 National Safety Council
    Self-Treating Choking
    If you are alone when
    choking, give yourself
    abdominal thrusts to
    try to expel the object.

    Lean over and push


    your abdomen against
    the back of a chair,
    table or other firm
    object.

    5 © 2016 National Safety Council


    Care for Choking Infants
    1. If a choking infant can cry or cough, watch
    carefully to see if the object comes out.

    2. If the infant cannot cry or cough, follow the


    steps for back slaps and chest thrusts. (See
    next slide)

    3. If the infant becomes unresponsive, send


    someone to call 9-1-1, and give CPR. Check for
    an object in the mouth before you give a
    breath, and remove any object you see.

    6 © 2016 National Safety Council


    Choking in an Infant
    1. Support the infant’s head in one hand, with
    the torso on your forearm and your thigh. Give
    up to 5 back slaps between the shoulder
    blades.
    2. Check to see if the object has been
    expelled. If not, continue on.
    3. With other hand on back of infant’s head, roll
    the infant face up. Place two fingers on
    breastbone just below nipple line. Give up to 5
    chest thrusts with middle and ring fingers.
    Check mouth for expelled object.
    Repeat above steps, alternating back slaps and
    chest thrusts and checking the mouth.
    Continue until the object is expelled or the
    infant becomes unresponsive.
    If the infant becomes unresponsive, call or
    7
    have someone call 9-1-1, then give CPR. Check
    © 2016 National Safety Council
    Knowledge and training is power.
    Every minute is critical when
    someone is choking or needs CPR.

    8 © 2016 National Safety Council

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