• Although he’s credited with developing the life-saving technique in 1974, Dr Henry Heimlich has never used it in a real-life situation… until now!
• The 96-year-old surgeon was at his retirement home in Cincinnati when a fellow resident started choking on a morsel of hamburger.
• The Doc sprung into action by wrapping his arms around retiree Patee Ris (“on the abdomen, below the rib cage”).
• After 3 compressions, the piece of meat came out & Ms Ris started breathing again.
• It’s reported that staff at the retirement home saw Ms Ris in distress, but didn’t want to steal the Doc’s thunder

Read more:

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2016/05/26/henry-heimlich-finally-uses-famed-maneuver/85003350/

http://news.sky.com/story/1703183/dr-heimlich-uses-his-manoeuvre-for-first-time

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