holy shit! pretty calm, glad it was chill, but you totally saved their life!!

That was too awkwardly casual of everyone. I would've at least given you a high five!

I have the exact opposite experience. I was waiting tables at place with a stage and 500 seats, lights are out, I notice a woman is choking and I went for the heimlich, successfully dislodged something as the house lights were brought on and 500 people are staring at us.

Thank you for your service

Not all heroes wear capes!

I’m just over here saving my wife’s life on the regular.

Fuck me I was about to question why you see so many choking people 🤣🤣

I’m still looking for what to do if I’m alone and something happens.

How to unchoke yourself if you're dying alone.

Back when I was in Boy Scouts, we learned how to do abdominal thrusts, and how to do it to yourself. You make the same hand shape (IIRC, one hand clasped over the other with your thumb knuckles forming a triangle into the abdomin), and place your hand in the back of a chair (assuming you're near a chair, which is likely). You then press yourself into it.

I'm still looking for what to do if I'm alone and something happens.

You can do abdominal thrusts on yourself, or you can use something like the back of a chair or a railing to rest your fists on and use your body weight to basically perform the same action

If you're alone. Call 911 (or your regions equivalent) and wait outside for emergency services. Keep trying to cough while you wait. If you see anyone flag them down but don't go searching for people. I know you're looking for a self heimlich but your safest bet is to keep trying to cough and to wait for emergency services or for other help to come along. Getting the thrust you need to clear your airway, especially while starved for oxygen, is not guaranteed. So if you ever find yourself in that situation call for help. If you start choking and you're a healthy adult you'll have 3 to 5 minutes of consciousness. Use it wisely.

the extra information is pretty important too… afaik most remediation for choking should be avoided early on because it’s actually fairly likely the person can clear the obstruction themselves, but if you time a thrust with their breath it can be very bad, and actually cause them to suck the object further in when they gasp for air

not a doctor or anyone with medical training, but i heard it at some point and it kinda makes sense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdominal_thrusts

See the History section here for some controversies. From what I remember, there is disagreement on whether he asked for the name to be changed or if institutions changed it first

I was taught the same as a part of nurse training - maybe I was given outdated information, I don't know. Bu t of course I was surprised by the article

When giving the back blows, you should have the person bend over first.

Specifically.... Right up until they changed it just last year.

Things like this and CPR get changed more often than a lot of people would expect (which is also to say most people never know it changes) but it all gets changed based on what seems like it has the best outcome based on the information\data at hand. Usually there's one or two adjustments every decade. Make some changes and then see if odds improve over the course of years.

Since when? Current Resus Council (UK) guidelines are for back blows first. You make sure the person is bending over forwards first.

The same thing happened to my son. Luckily I had first aid training and actually knew how to do the Heimlich. I didn't know that you were supposed to do back blows first though. When I learned, they just told me to go straight for the Heimlich.

Don't forget the amusement park right next to the waste disposal facility.

The sources for this are also instructors and doctors, OP listed them. It sounds like this is new research and best prescribes may be in the process of changing if further research bears these findings out.

You can read the wikipedia about the abdominal thrusts that another comment linked. There's a line in there about heimlich not being 'scientific' in his pushing of the abdominal thrusts and denigration of back blows.