First aid Heimlich Maneuver : Choking Prevention

Choking or acute air route obstruction in which air is not allowed to reach lungs and keeping the person in difficult situation often primarily noticed people who are near to them and later attended peoples who are working in hospital. Foreign body aspiration (FBA) is a foremost root of accidental death in children less than one year old /infant and 7% of children death occurring in less than four year age. Many times in our localities we usually hear the child is dead because og aspirating the objects. But we know these types of incidents are avoidable. Causes of choking vary according to the stage of developmental individual age and altered precautionary and controlling strategies. Some studies showed that more than four hundred death due to not able to breath properly and their delay in reaching the health centers. Most children problems is using air balloon for playing which have led to suffocation in child age below three years of about sixty five percentage. Of advanced persons age are also at potential of getting suffers of obstruction but bereavement rate is more related to consumption of food resulting in choking is more in senior citizens when compared to kids aged between 1-4 years. The study done by Dolkas et al showed that 133 adults aged above 18 years who expired for the reason of choking. It also revealed that fourteen percent of adults were consuming liquor at the time of choking. Kerala 18 month child died because of having murukku. But children’s are always innocent were they don’t know the extent of problem may persist and its duty of others to have keen observation. So Heimlich maneuver training of the care givers and public in identifying the high-risk factors and training them in prevention and early intervention can improve outcomes and reduction in choking in children’s as well. When we are saying the community all kinds of peoples who can manage the situation comes into account. Teenagers plays an important role in helping the people to minimize the problems associated with choking and news are reported that their time sense have saved their friends and others from being the victim of choking. In the developed countries, Basic Life Support (BLS) courses and First Aid courses were routinely done by public. But now even developing countries are contributing their interest to bring awareness in publics.