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Old 4th Sep 2011, 23:25
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Captain Gidday wrote:

The Heimlich Maneuver is no longer regarded as the best intervention for an obstruction in the windpipe. Most authorities changed their advice about five years ago.
Well it was over 15 years ago that I used it, but then again nothing in life is constant, except change itself. The bottom line is that at the time it worked.
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