Mental exercises for your emotional balance
March 2024
Choking can occur while the person is eating or drinking. When a person is drowning, he will probably cough. This is the body's natural reaction to remove food stuck in the airways.
Conventional wisdom or informal teaching tells us that slapping the victim on the back or inserting the fingers into the mouth effectively alleviates suffocation. The authorities, however, do not agree. There is a good chance that clogged foods will go deeper into the trachea, which makes it harder to remove. The best thing you can do is to stay calm and do nothing.
Help should be sought when the person can not breathe, can not speak and his face turns blue.
How to perform the Heimlich Maneuver
Call to ask for emergency help - If you are with other people, ask someone for help. In the meantime, assist the victim immediately. If you are alone with the person, help him or her for a minute and then call the emergency service, which in Mexico City is the 066
Start cardiopulmonary resuscitation - CPR must be performed by someone with adequate CPR training.
Assume the CPR position only with your hands - With the palm of the hand in the sternum of the area of the right in the chest between the nipples -, press hard and fast around. Do this continuously until help arrives, at a rate of 100 times per minute.
Stop CPR once the emergency help arrives and you are ready to take over.