How to Help a Choking Adult or Child | Back Blows, Abdominal Thrusts, and Chest Thrusts | Canadian Red Cross

Quick tips: How to save someone who is choking 5 back blows (1st step, per the Red Cross) Put the choking person over your arm, and tip their upper body horizontal Deliver 5 HARD back blows between their shoulder blades *the sister here wasn’t able to do this effectively - this would probably be tough on a trampoline, and she may not be strong enough to do for her brother, so she appropriately shifted quickly to Abdominal thrusts. You don’t want to do this when someone is upright, because then g

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Across South Georgia, more than 50 American Red Cross volunteers are supporting wildfire response, providing compassion and care to families impacted by these devastating fires. Hear why they do what they do.https://t.co/RaJpxqZww9#RedCross #WildfireResponse #Volunteer