The Heimlich maneuver is very useful in our daily lives. Each of us should fully understand the principle of the Heimlich maneuver and be able to successfully use the Heimlich maneuver in times of crisis. The principle of Heimlich maneuver is to press the human lungs through the soft tissues under the abdomen and diaphragm by forceful impact, so that the air between the trachea and the lungs can form an airflow, so as to achieve the purpose of using the airflow to eliminate the foreign body in the trachea or throat successfully. ?
In our daily life, when people some nuts and other food is very easy to produce the phenomenon of foreign body blockage of the respiratory tract. Foreign body blockage occurs after the situation is very critical, if you can not deal with often have serious consequences, and foreign body blockage often too late to wait until the arrival of the ambulance. Then we mastered the Heimlich maneuver is very necessary.
First of all, before we learn the Heimlich maneuver, we have to put an end to a few wrong practices.
1, once the foreign body blockage, absolutely prohibit patting the back, because patting the back is very easy to cause the foreign body in the patient's body to run, aggravate the condition.
2, do not use chopsticks and other tools to try to clip out the foreign body from the throat, in the absence of professional medical equipment environment, no medical common sense of ordinary people is not enough to complete the operation of clip out the foreign body.
The correct way to use the Heimlich maneuver is: Self-help in a single person situation: When a person has a foreign body blockage, the situation is very serious, because there is no one to help you, once a single person occurs in the environment of the foreign body blockage, we have to find a hard tool with a blunt angle to impact our upper abdomen, continuous multiple impacts can be effective in helping us to remove the foreign body. Vertical abdominal impact method: in the case of a foreign body blockage in someone close to us, we should stand on the patient's back, hold the patient's abdomen with both hands, one hand in the shape of a hollow fist, and the other hand holding the fist like the patient's abdomen above the back of the rhythmic impact.