Dr. Henry Heimlich recently used the emergency technique for the first time himself to save a woman choking on food at his senior living center. (2014 file photo AP Photo/Al Behrman)CINCINNATI — The 96-year-old Cinciati surgeon credited with developing his namesake Heimlich maneuver recently used the emergency technique for the first time himself to save a woman choking on food at his senior living center.
Dr. Henry Heimlich told The Cinciati Enquirer in an interview Thursday he has demonstrated the well-known maneuver many times through the years but had never before used it on a person who was choking.
An employee at the Deupree House in Cinciati where Heimlich lives says the retired chest surgeon was in the room when an 87-year-old woman began choking. The employee says Heimlich dislodged a piece of hamburger from the woman’s airway, and she quickly recovered.
Heimlich says it made him appreciate how wonderful it has been “to be able to save all those lives.”
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