Table of Contents
- 1 What should you do if a conscious person is choking and is unable to breathe or cough?
- 2 What care should you give to a conscious adult who is choking and Cannot cough?
- 3 How do you provide care for a conscious choking infant?
- 4 What do you encourage a conscious choking victim to keep doing?
- 5 How would you alter care for a conscious choking pregnant woman or an individual who is too big for you to reach around?
- 6 What’s the best way to help someone who is choking?
- 7 What’s the best way to help an infant choke?
What should you do if a conscious person is choking and is unable to breathe or cough?
If the Person Is Conscious but Not Able to Breathe or Talk:
- Give Back Blows. Give up to 5 blows between the shoulder blades with the heel of your hand.
- If Person Is Still Choking, Do Thrusts.
- Give CPR, if Necessary.
- Follow Up.
What care should you give to a conscious adult who is choking and Cannot cough?
If the person cannot speak, cough, or breathe or is making high-pitched noise, immediately begin care for choking. Alternate between any two of the following methods until the object comes out: back blows, abdominal thrusts, and chest thrusts.
When you give care to an adult who is conscious and choking Where should you position your fist to give abdominal thrusts group of answer choices?
Place your fist, thumb side in, just above the person’s navel (belly button). Grasp the fist tightly with your other hand. Make quick, upward and inward thrusts with your fist.
Which of the following methods should you use on a conscious patient who starts choking while eating their dinner?
Stand behind them and slightly to one side. Support their chest with 1 hand. Lean them forward so the object blocking their airway will come out of their mouth, rather than moving further down. Give up to 5 sharp blows between their shoulder blades with the heel of your hand.
How do you provide care for a conscious choking infant?
First Aid
- Lay the infant face down, along your forearm. Use your thigh or lap for support. Hold the infant’s chest in your hand and the jaw with your fingers. Point the infant’s head downward, lower than the body.
- Give up to 5 quick, forceful blows between the infant’s shoulder blades. Use the palm of your free hand.
What do you encourage a conscious choking victim to keep doing?
Mild choking: encourage them to cough
- encourage them to keep coughing to try to clear the blockage.
- ask them to try to spit out the object if it’s in their mouth.
- don’t put your fingers in their mouth to help them as they may bite you accidentally.
What should you do if a conscious person needing assistance does not give consent?
If they refuse consent, call 911 and wait for emergency medical services to arrive. Intoxicated, developmentally disabled, confused, or underaged victims unaccompanied by an adult are considered to have implied their consent.
What is given to a conscious choking infant?
If back blows don’t relieve the choking and your baby or child is still conscious, give chest thrusts to infants under 1 year or abdominal thrusts to children over 1 year. This will create an artificial cough, increasing pressure in the chest and helping to dislodge the object.
How would you alter care for a conscious choking pregnant woman or an individual who is too big for you to reach around?
If a conscious choking person is too big for you to reach around, is obviously pregnant or is known to be pregnant, give chest thrusts instead. Position your hands slightly higher for a pregnant woman. Chest thrusts for a conscious adult are like abdominal thrusts, except for the placement of your hands.
What’s the best way to help someone who is choking?
Bend the person over at the waist so that the upper body is parallel with the ground. Deliver five separate back blows between the person’s shoulder blades with the heel of your hand. Give 5 abdominal thrusts. Perform five abdominal thrusts (also known as the Heimlich maneuver).
How to clear the airway of an unconscious person?
To clear the airway of an unconscious person: Lower the person on his or her back onto the floor, arms to the side. Clear the airway. Begin CPR if the object remains lodged and the person doesn’t respond after you take the above measures.
What’s the universal sign for choking a person?
The universal sign for choking is hands clutched to the throat. If the person doesn’t give the signal, look for these indications:
What’s the best way to help an infant choke?
Thump the infant gently but firmly five times on the middle of the back using the heel of your hand. The combination of gravity and the back blows should release the blocking object.