Doctor shows how to save someone from choking this Christmas
A doctor showed how to save someone from choking.Source: Loose Women, ITV
Transcript
00:00 Somebody has difficulty speaking, breathing, coughing,
00:03 and you're like, oh my gosh, are you choking?
00:05 So you can ask them, are you choking?
00:07 And you could pretend, are you?
00:09 Okay, are you choking?
00:10 You're like, okay, recognize they're choking.
00:12 I'm gonna go try and help you.
00:13 So the first thing you need to recognize is slap it out.
00:16 So these are gonna be back slaps.
00:17 So if I just turn you here,
00:19 and so you're gonna support them.
00:20 Imagine you're choking.
00:21 Yeah, you support them, you hunch them over,
00:24 and you're gonna use the base of your hand
00:25 and give five hard back slaps.
00:27 One, and then look for the obstruction.
00:30 Two, three, four, five.
00:34 I'm going easy on my lean,
00:36 but these are actually quite serious back slaps.
00:37 They're gonna be very hard,
00:39 and it can be quite distressing.
00:40 You wanna see, is the obstruction gone?
00:41 Are you still choking?
00:42 Okay, she's still choking.
00:43 So then you're gonna go in to squeeze it out.
00:45 And this is when you're gonna do abdominal thrust.
00:47 So you get behind her,
00:48 and then I'm gonna use the base of my hand here,
00:51 form a fist between her belly button
00:52 and the lower part of her chest.
00:54 And I'm just gonna squeeze upwards.
00:56 Five times, looking for the obstruction.
00:59 Five squeezes.
01:00 And what's that doing internally?
01:01 It's causing a...
01:02 Yeah, it's causing a pressure
01:03 that's gonna help get the obstruction out.
01:05 And has the obstruction gone?
01:06 Yeah.
01:07 No.
01:08 (laughing)
01:09 So if the obstruction hasn't gone at this point,
01:11 this is when you call 999.
01:14 And then, if you call 999,
01:15 you go ahead and repeat the steps two more times.