I really hope it’s about Heimlich, not really thrusts :)
“Are you choking? Here comes the punch!”
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thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 13 hours agoChest thrusts as in chest compressions? Like whet the heart stops? What if the heart is still beating??
toofpic@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 8 hours ago
No, not chest compressions, though that IS what you go to if they don’t stop choking, and then become unconscious (because not breathing is a direct path to not beating). Again, I’ll refer to the wikipedia article someone else has posted in these comments, but chest ‘thrusts’ are similar to the abdominal thrust, but your hands are placed higher, around the rib cage rather than just under it as with the heimlich/abdominal.