“Minutes count when you’re not breathing.'
HONOLULU - A teacher in Hawaii saved a woman from choking this week on what happened to be National Choking Awareness Day.reports that a 100-year-old woman was in her car traveling on a highway when she started choking on a cough drop.
The women’s family pulled the car to the side of the road and that’s when a quick-thinking good Samaritan rushed to help,Roberts, a school ceramics teacher, said he pulled over and performed abdominal thrusts on the woman.Officials said the woman was taken to the hospital after the ordeal but expected to survive., nearly 3,000 people died in the U.S. from choking in 2020, with about half of those deaths involving someone over the age of 74.
Roberts said he has known how to perform abdominal thrusts for 20 years but never had to use it until now. “Minutes count when you’re not breathing. After four to six minutes you could have serious brain damage.” Jim Ireland, with Honolulu EMS, said.
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