Your actions:

VIDEO 13 - CHECKING IF VICTIM IS CHOKING AND TRYING TO GET HIM TO COUGH

VIDEO 14 - STRIKING THE BACK TO CLEAR CHOKING

 

 

VIDEO 15 - ABDOMINAL THRUSTS 

 

 

VIDEO 16 - HOW TO POSITION THE HANDS FOR ABDOMINAL THRUSTS 

 

 

VIDEO 17 - CLOSE UP OF DOING THE ABDOMINAL THRUSTS 

 

 

VIDEO 18 - DOING ABDOMINAL THRUSTS WHEN YOU ARE ALONE AND CHOKING

 

 

VIDEO 19 - DOING ABDOMINAL THRUSTS WHEN YOU ARE ALONE AND CHOKING

 

Your Aims:

  1. To remove the obstruction and allow the casualty to breathe normally.
  2. If this does not work, to try to get medical help

For both minor and major choking, tell the person to cough. For minor choking, the casualty should be able to clear the blockage without help, by coughing. For major choking, if coughing does not clear
the obstruction, you will need to help. Your actions will be the same for an adult and a child, 
BUT YOU WILL NEED TO POSITION YOUR HANDS DIFFERENTLY.

 

 

 

FOR A CONSCIOUS ADULT OR CHILD:

Step 1: Back blows

  1. Reassure the casualty
  2. Stand next to, but slightly behind, the casualty. Put your foot between the casualty’s feet.
  3. Bend the casualty forward so that he or she is leaning far forward, with the head lower than the chest.
  4. Use the heel of the hand (the part nearest your wrist) to give up to five back blows between the
    shoulder blades. (Stop if the obstruction clears).
  5. Check the mouth and remove any obstruction.
  6. Repeat if necessary. If this does not work, and the casualty is still conscious, go to step 2.
  7. IF THE CASUALTY BECOMES UNCONSCIOUS, begin CPR.
  8. Keep looking in the mouth, and try to remove any object you see with a finger.

 

Step 2: Abdominal thrusts

  1. Stand behind the casualty, putting your feet between the casualty’s feet.
  2. Keep the casualty bending forwards
  3. Place a fist (with the thumb inwards) just above the navel (belly button) and well below the bottom of the breastbone. Grasp your fist with your other hand.

 

Pull sharply, inward and upwards (towards the head) up to five times.

 

Check the mouth and remove any obstruction. Repeat if necessary.

IF THE CASUALTY BECOMES UNCONSCIOUS begin CPR.

Keep looking in the mouth, and try to remove any object you see with a finger. If you have done 5 back blows and 5 abdominal thrusts three times without clearing the obstruction, call for help. Keep repeating the cycle of back blows and abdominal thrusts until the airway is clear, help arrives or the casualty becomes unconscious, in which case immediately begin CPR.

NOTE:
If you have used abdominal thrusts to clear and obstruction, the casualty should see a doctor as soon as possible, because there could be internalinjuries.

Repeat this 30 times at a speed of 100 chest compressions per minutes. You should press down for about as long as you release