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If someone if someone is mildly choking, you should encourage them to cough. If they are severely choking then they will need assistance as demonstrating in this video...
Choking, if not solved through these steps, can potentially be life threatening by creating a blockage in the airway.
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COURSE TRANSCRIPT
Choking happens when something gets stuck in the throat and partially or fully blocks the person’s airway, so they can’t breathe properly. In adults it’s usually a piece of food. In young children it can be food, but it can also be small objects, like coins, pebbles and small parts of toys. A serious blockage can completely stop the person from being able to breathe.
If somebody is choking, this is what to do:
* If it’s a mild blockage they should be able to clear it themselves by coughing.
* So, encourage them to cough it out and keep trying this.
* If this doesn’t work stand to their side and slightly behind them. Support their upper body with your arm across their body and one of your hands on their far shoulder and help them to lean forward.
* Use the heel of your other hand to give up to 5 sharp back blows between their shoulder blades.
* Check their mouth. If this has worked, the blockage should have come out and they should be able to breathe again.
* If it hasn’t worked, again stand behind them and put your arms around their waist.
* Form one hand into a fist and grasp it with your other hand over the top of it, between their navel and the bottom of their chest.
* Bend well forward. Pull sharply inwards and upwards. This is called an abdominal thrust. Do this 5 times.
* Check their mouth to see if the obstruction has come out.
* If the person can’t speak, cry, cough or breathe, or they’re still choking, you need to call for emergency help immediately.
* While waiting for help to arrive keep repeating the cycle of 5 back blows and 5 abdominal thrusts until help comes or the obstruction comes out. If they lose consciousness or become unresponsive at any stage, you’ll have to go back to step 3 of the Primary Survey to check their airway and give them CPR if they stop breathing.
If you’ve given the casualty abdominal thrusts they’ll need to be checked over by a medical professional, regardless of whether the obstruction has cleared or not.
Choking, if not solved through these steps, can potentially be life threatening by creating a blockage in the airway.
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COURSE TRANSCRIPT
Choking happens when something gets stuck in the throat and partially or fully blocks the person’s airway, so they can’t breathe properly. In adults it’s usually a piece of food. In young children it can be food, but it can also be small objects, like coins, pebbles and small parts of toys. A serious blockage can completely stop the person from being able to breathe.
If somebody is choking, this is what to do:
* If it’s a mild blockage they should be able to clear it themselves by coughing.
* So, encourage them to cough it out and keep trying this.
* If this doesn’t work stand to their side and slightly behind them. Support their upper body with your arm across their body and one of your hands on their far shoulder and help them to lean forward.
* Use the heel of your other hand to give up to 5 sharp back blows between their shoulder blades.
* Check their mouth. If this has worked, the blockage should have come out and they should be able to breathe again.
* If it hasn’t worked, again stand behind them and put your arms around their waist.
* Form one hand into a fist and grasp it with your other hand over the top of it, between their navel and the bottom of their chest.
* Bend well forward. Pull sharply inwards and upwards. This is called an abdominal thrust. Do this 5 times.
* Check their mouth to see if the obstruction has come out.
* If the person can’t speak, cry, cough or breathe, or they’re still choking, you need to call for emergency help immediately.
* While waiting for help to arrive keep repeating the cycle of 5 back blows and 5 abdominal thrusts until help comes or the obstruction comes out. If they lose consciousness or become unresponsive at any stage, you’ll have to go back to step 3 of the Primary Survey to check their airway and give them CPR if they stop breathing.
If you’ve given the casualty abdominal thrusts they’ll need to be checked over by a medical professional, regardless of whether the obstruction has cleared or not.
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