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Heimlich's Maneuvers

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by Henry J. Heimlich


  3. Ibid.

  4. “2010, United States Unintentional Drowning Deaths and Rates per 100,000: All Races, Both Sexes, All Ages,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.

  5. “Protect the Ones You Love: Child Injuries Are Preventable,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, last updated April 19, 2012, http://www.cdc.gov/safechild/NAP/background.html (accessed July 17, 2013).

  6. “Injury Prevention & Control: Data & Statistics (WISQARS),” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/index.html (accessed July 17, 2013).

  7. “2010 American Heart Association and American Red Cross Guidelines for First Aid,” Circulation 122 (2010): S934–S936.

  8. N. Manolios and I. Mackie, “Drowning and Near-Drowning on Australian Beaches Patrolled by Life-Savers: A 10-Year Study, 1973–1983,” Medical Journal of Australia 148, no. 4 (1988): 165.

  9. E. F. Van Beeck et al., “Policy and Practice,” Bulletin of the World Health Organization 83, no. 11 (November 2011): 855.

  10. Joseph P. Ornato, “The Resuscitation of Near-Drowning Victims,” Journal of the American Medical Association 256, no. 1 (1986): 75.

  11. Jerome H. Modell, “Drowning,” New England Journal of Medicine 328, no. 4 (1993): 253–56.

  12. Snider, “New Hug Can Save Drowning Victim.”

  13. Karen MacGrogan, “Pair Honored for Heimlich Rescue,” Destin Log, December 9, 1989, pp. 1A, 3A.

  14. “An Open Letter to Our Client, the Public and the Press,” National Aquatic Safety Company, http://nascoaquatics.com/?page_id=1273 (accessed August 13, 2013).

  15. Ibid.

  16. Staff of the National Aquatics Safety Company, LLC, “Unconscious or Passive Victims,” NASCO Lifeguard Textbook, http://nascoaquatics.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/lifeguard-textbook-2012.pdf (accessed August 16, 2013), p. 76.

  17. John L. Hunsucker, “NASCO Press Release,” August 12, 2009, http://www.scribd.com/doc/49537320/8-12-09-NASCO-press-release-re-misleading-and-prejudicial-media-statements (accessed November 13, 2013), p. 1.

  18. Manolios and Mackie, “Drowning and Near-Drowning on Australian Beaches Patrolled by Life-Savers,” pp. 165–71.

  19. James P. Orlowski, “Vomiting as a Complication of the Heimlich Maneuver,” Journal of the American Medical Association 258, no. 4 (1987): 512–13.

  20. Ibid, pp. 2–3.

  21. John Fauber, “Advair: How Safe Is This Drug?” MedPageToday.com, November 18, 2012, http://www.medpagetoday.com/AllergyImmunology/Asthma/36000 (accessed July 17, 2013).

  22. “Heimlich Maneuver Saves Asthma Sufferers,” Caring World, 1999, p. 2.

  23. Stephen M. Feanny, Anne St. John, and P. Howard, “Utilisation of the Heimlich Maneuver as an Adjunct in the Management of Asthma in Paediatric Patients: A Prospective Study,” abstract, West Indian Medical Journal 54 (2005): 45.

  24. For a clip from the episode, see “Everest - The Death Zone (Part One),” YouTube video, 14:46, from PBS’s Nova, posted by “TheWorldIsBiggerThanMe,” September 8, 2011, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC9sBo1WHXA (accessed July 17, 2013).

  25. Henry Heimlich, MD, “Respiratory Rehabilitation with Transtracheal Oxygen System,” Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology 91, no. 6 (November/December 1982): 643–47.

  26. Ibid.

  27. “Julius Wagner-Jauregg,” Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1922–1941 (Amsterdam, Neth.: Elsevier Publishing, 1965).

  28. E. Chernin, “The Malariatherapy of Neurosyphilis,” Journal of Parasitology 70 (1984): 611–17.

  29. “HIV/AIDS Basic Statistics,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, Sexual Transmitted Diseases and Tuberculosis Prevention, http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/statistics.html (accessed July 18, 2013).

  30. Ibid.

  31. Ibid.

  32. “HIV/AIDS Facts,” GreaterThanOne.org, San Francisco AIDS foundation, last updated February 2011, http://greaterthanone.org/about/hivaids-facts.html (accessed July 18, 2013).

  33. “Global Effort to Halt and Reverse HIV/AIDS Showing Results, Finds UN Report,” UN News Centre, November 23, 2010, http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp/html/story.asp?NewsID=36842&Cr=hiv&Cr1=#.UnH3QRYjPFE (accessed October 31, 2013).

  34. “How We’re Spending,” AIDS.gov, US Department of Health and Human Services, last revised July 5, 2013, http://aids.gov/federal-resources/funding-opportunities/how-were-spending/ (accessed July 18, 2013).

  35. David Wessner, “What Does HIV/AIDS Cost? The Answer to This Question Depends a Lot on Whom You Ask,” The AIDS Pandemic (blog), October 26, 2010, http://the-aids-pandemic.blogspot.com/2010/10/what-does-hivaids-cost-answer-to-this.html (accessed July 17, 2013).

  36. Henry J. Heimlich et al., “Malariotherapy for HIV Patients,” Mechanisms of Ageing and Development 93, no. 1 (1997): 79–85.

  37. Xiaoping Chen et al., “Phase-1 Studies of Malariotherapy for HIV Infection,” Chinese Medical Sciences Journal/Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences 14, no. 4 (1999): 224–28.

  38. Alan E. Greenberg et al., “Plasmodium Falciparum Malaria and Perinatally Acquired Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection in Kinshasa, Zaire: A Prospective, Longitudinal Cohort Study of 587 Children,” New England Journal of Medicine 325, no. 2 (1991): 105–109.

  CHAPTER 17. WORKING TOWARD A CARING WORLD

  1. David Brown, “Todd Frazier Performs Heimlich Maneuver, Saves Choking Man at Lunch,” Yahoo! Sports, May 29, 2012, http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/todd-frazier-performs-heimlich-maneuver-saves-chokingman-013455303.html (accessed November 2, 2013).

  2. Kate Nolan, “Innovations in Medicine: Originator of Heimlich Maneuver to Be Here Today,” Chautauqua Daily, July 6, 1983.

  3. Henry J. Heimlich et al., “Apollo Double Diaphragm Pump for Use in Artificial Heart-Lung Systems” (AAMI National Meeting, March 20, 1975).

  4. “‘A Caring World,’ the Slogan of Heimlich.” Iran News, May 11, 1998, p. 11.

  5. Rick Gladstone, “U.S. Envoy Optimistic About Ties with China,” New York Times, December 18, 2012, p. A12.

  6. Cliff Peale, “UC Plans New Campus—7,600 Miles away in China,” Enquirer, June 7, 2013.

  7. Xuemao Wang, dean and university librarian, University of Cincinnati, conversation with Dr. Heimlich, November 20, 2013.

  “abdominal thrusts.” See Heimlich Maneuver

  abscess, pelvic, 71–72

  acid reflux, 98, 100–101

  acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), 209–12

  Adam’s-apple exercises, 208

  AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), 209–12

  airway constriction, 201

  Albert Einstein Medical Center, 160–61

  Albert Lasker Award, 195

  Alexander, Shawn, 198–99

  Allen, Woody, 164

  alveolar fluid, 203

  American Academy of Achievement Award, 195

  American Board of Surgery exam, 88

  American Board of Thoracic Surgery exam, 88

  American Broncho-Esophagological Association, 173, 191, 207

  American Friends Service Committee, 214

  American Heart Association, 178, 197

  American Medical Association (AMA), 110, 129

  American Medical Association Commission on Emergency Medical Services, 173

  American Red Cross

  abandonment of back slaps, 179

  and back slaps, 172

  main responsibilities of, 172

  and water safety, 197

  American Society of Abdominal Surgeons, 195

  anatomy, 48

  anesthesia, and effects on throat muscles, 174

  anesthesiology, 53

  Ang, Ricardo O. (II), 15

  Angino, Richard, 171–72
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  animal-research laboratory, 104–105

  animal testing, 13, 102, 105, 151

  anthropology, 47

  antichoking method, 149–70

  antimalarial medication, 209–12

  anti-Semitism, 36–38, 43–49

  antituberculosis medications, 87

  “Apostles, The” (code name), 68

  armed-forces medical journal, 77

  Armstrong, Neil, 218

  Arthur Murray Dance Party, The, 92

  “aspirate fluid,” 198

  Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, 219

  asthma, 183, 201–204

  Attica prison, 38

  Auburn prison, 38

  autoclave, 70

  bacillary dysentery, 63

  back slaps

  and the American Red Cross, 172

  dangers of, 171–72

  efficacy of in choking, 150–51

  ball valve, 127

  Barbasol, 75–77

  barium, 105, 140

  Barton, Clara, 172

  Baugh, Gerald, 129–30, 134–35

  Baxter Laboratories, 123

  Beckley College, 191

  Beckley Hospital, 191

  Becton Dickinson and Company, 128–29, 132–35

  Bellevue Hospital, 88

  Benedum Foundation, 191

  Berlin Wall, 117, 218

  Berman, Edgar F., 130–31

  beta-agonists, 201

  Bethe, Hans, 47

  Birnbaum, Bernie, 110

  Birnbaum, Ronnie, 110

  black lung disease, 191

  blindness, 75

  “blockbuster” drugs, 201

  blood supply to organs, importance of, 103–104

  Bogachus, Edward, 160

  Bombay (Mumbai), India, 58

  Boston City Hospital, 51–52

  brain damage, 150, 176

  Brandenburg Gate, 117, 218

  British Parliament, 33–34

  Bucharest, Romania, 115–23

  Bucharest secret police, 121

  bypass surgery, 219

  “bystander effect,” 181

  Calcutta (Kolkata), India, 59

  Camp Mah-Kee-Nac, 19–20

  Cancer Care organization, 195

  cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR), 197–98

  Caring World, A (concept), 217

  Carlile, Thomas, 162–63

  Carmichael, Karen, 15

  Carper, Jean, 176, 181

  Carpico, Guy, 11–12, 112–13

  Carson, Johnny, 17–18

  Carter, David, 204

  CDC (US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), 211

  Chautauqua Institution, 217–18

  Chelsea Naval Hospital, 53

  Cheshire Foundation Home, 137–39, 146

  Chest (medical journal), 192

  chest-drainage system, 125–26

  chest drain valve, 128

  chest surgery, 83

  Chevalier Jackson Lecture for the American Broncho-Esophagological Association, 195

  Chiang Kai-shek, 55, 61

  Chicago Daily News, 197

  childbirth, natural, 97

  China

  Chungking, 59

  Great Hall of the People, 214

  Huang Po (Yellow Bank River), 64

  International College of Medicine, 228

  Lanchow, Kansu Province, 63

  Ningsia, Ningsia Province, 63

  Peiping Union Medical College, 85

  Shanghai, 79

  Shanpa, Suiyuan Province, 64

  Tsinjiang, 63

  Yangtze River, 60

  Chinese National Aviation Corporation (CNAC), 60

  Chinese Nationalist forces, 55

  chloroquine, 209

  “choke-saver,” 150

  choking, 149–70

  death from, 176

  symptoms of, 18

  chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), 183, 191

  Chungking, China, 59

  Cincinnati Post (newspaper), 147, 220

  Cincinnati Public Library Information and Reference and History Departments, 15

  City University (City College of New York), 25

  cleaners, caustic, 99–100

  code name “The Apostles,” 68

  Colicchio, Tom, 180

  Columbia University College of Medicine, 86

  Commission on Emergency Medical Services of the American Medical Association, 164

  Communism, 55

  “coolies,” defined, 60

  cornea, scarring of, 75

  Cornell University, 43

  Cornell University Medical College, 23

  corticosteroids, inhaled, 201

  Cosmopolitan (magazine), 109–10

  cowpox, 33

  CPR. See cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR)

  creative medicine, 212

  cystic fibrosis, 183, 189

  Daniels, Gary, 171–72

  Davis, Bette, 40

  Deaconess Associations Foundation, 226

  Deaconess Hospital, 183, 187

  “dead space” in oxygen therapy, 184

  Destination Gobi (film), 81

  diaphragm, 152

  Dickinson, Angie, 18

  Dillon, Mary, 90–91

  Diseases of the Chest (medical journal), 123

  Distinguished Service Award, 195

  Dixon, Virginia, 108–10

  Donnelly, Lori Elizabeth, 15

  Dr. Heimlich’s Home Guide to Emergency Medical Situations (H. Heimlich), 165

  drowning victims, 197–201

  dysentery, 63

  dysphagia, 98–100, 124

  Dysphagia Foundation, 138–39

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 214

  Emergency Medicine (medical journal), 155

  Emmy Award, 165

  emphysema, 183, 187, 191, 193

  Engineering and Science Hall of Fame, 195

  Epstein, Mary. See Heimlich, Mary (Epstein)

  Esch, Victor, 197–99

  esophageal speech, 144–45

  esophagus

  birth defects of, 98

  cancer of, 98, 106–107

  damaged, 98

  scarring of, 99–100

  Esophagus Center of the Jewish Hospital, 145

  ether, 53

  ethics, medical, 13, 33–34, 155

  “Everest: The Death Zone” (NOVA episode), 204

  Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 172

  fee splitting, 98

  finger-sucking method, 142–43, 207–208

  Fink, B. Raymond, 176

  flap valve, 127

  “flooding of the lungs,” 198

  Floyd Bennett Field, 134

  flutter valve, 127–28

  fraternity, “nonsectarian,” 37

  Frazier, Todd, 213

  Fritz, Davis, 165

  Fritz, Louis, 165

  Fu Tso Yi, 63, 68–69, 72–73

  Galton, Lawrence, 109–10

  gastroesophageal sphincter, 101–102

  Gavriliu, Dan, 115–23

  Gibbs, Susan, 189

  Gobi Desert, Inner Mongolia, 62–63

  Good Morning America (television show), 164

  Gordon, Archer, 174, 177

  Great Depression, 25, 35

  Great Diamond Island, 54

  Greater New York Safety Council, 23

  Great Hall of the People, 214

  Guam, 80–81

  Guildner, Charles Wayne, 175

  Hagen, Stephanie, 202

  Harvard School of Public Health, 209

  Hassan II (king of Morocco), 146

  Hawthorne Reform School, 29

  Hayani “Ben” (Mohammed Ben Driss Hayani-Mechkouri), 137–48, 204–207

  heart-lung system, artificial, 218–19

  “Heidi Heimlich,” 226

  Heimlich, Cecilia “Cele,” 29–30, 37, 40, 56–57

  Heimlich, Elisabeth, 15

  Heimlich, Henry

 
; active military duty (beginning), 53

  awards received, 195, 199

  birth of, 29

  and changing of middle name, 36–37

  childhood, 29–33

  in China, 55–79, 214

  on family, 220–27

  first life saved, 19–24

  first patient death, 77–78

  as head drum major, 44–45

  internship at Boston City Hospital, 51–52

  medical school applications and acceptances, 47

  meets Jane Murray, 91

  as “mule” for the American government, 60

  naval discharge, 81

  patent for Heimlich Chest Drain Valve, 134

  patent for Heimlich MicroTrach, 186

  and relationship with father, 223–25

  in US Navy Reserve, 49

  in Vietnam, 214

  Heimlich, Jane (Murray), 91–96, 146–48, 220–22

  Heimlich, Janet, 15

  Heimlich, Mary (Epstein), 22–23, 25–29

  Heimlich, Philip (father), 22–23, 25–29, 223–25

  Heimlich, Philip (son), 15, 97

  Heimlich Chest Drainage Sets, 130

  Heimlich Chest Drain Valve, 128–35, 213–14

  Heimlich-Gavriliu Reversed Gastric Tube operation, 124. See also Heimlich Reversed Gastric Tube operation

  Heimlich Heroes, 225–27, 231

  Heimlich Institute, 225

  Heimlich Institute Certificate of Heroism Award, 165

  Heimlich Maneuver, 17–19, 149–70, 197–204

  Heimlich MicroTrach, 185–95

  Heimlich Reversed Gastric Tube operation, 110–14, 140–42

  “HELP! Dr. Henry’s Emergency Lessons for People” (television segments), 165

  Henry J. Heimlich Archival Collection, 15

  Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions, 15

  HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), 209–12

  HIV and AIDS and malariotherapy, 197, 209–12

  holistic health, 97, 220

  Homeopathy at Home (Jane Heimlich), 220–21

  Horton, Nancy, 189

  hospital ship USS Repose (AH-16), 79, 82

  Huang Po (Yellow Bank River), 64

  human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), 209–12

  Humphrey, Hubert, 130

  immunology, 33

  Imperial Japanese intelligence office, 65

  India

  Bombay (Mumbai), 58

  Calcutta (Kolkata), 59

  intelligence gathering, 61

  International Abstracts of Surgery (medical journal), 115

  International College of Medicine, 228

  International Platform Association, 201–202

  Iran News (newspaper), 227

 

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