If you can’t call 999, get someone else to do it. This advice is for helping a child (1 year to puberty). We have specific choking first aid advice for a baby (one year and under) and an adult. You ...
First aid steps for a choking baby (one and under): Step 1. Give up to five back blows: hold the baby face-down along your thigh with their head lower than their bottom. Hit them firmly on their back ...
This causes blood pressure to fall and air passages to narrow, resulting in breathing difficulties. Anaphylaxis recognition and first aid treatment [PDF 585KB] Anaphylaxis Poster [PDF 469KB] Choking: ...
When someone is choking, you don’t have long to act. The American Red Cross–recommended first aid protocol for choking is five back blows and five abdominal thrusts (also called the Heimlich ...
As well as covering basic first aid techniques, such as CPR, the class were also trained on what to do if someone is choking. "I stopped working and went to help Magi. I tapped her on the back and ...
A school first aid trainer is encouraging more people to develop life-saving skills after her own experience of helping a choking hospital worker. Lynnie Cribben spotted Oxford University Hospital ...
The basic first aid practice given to a nine-month-old baby who choked at nursery was "poor", an inquest has heard. Oliver Steeper died in hospital six days after choking at Jelly Beans Day ...