When the conventional method for choking emergencies fails there is an opportunity for a life-saving backup intervention.

For decades, the Heimlich maneuver has been lauded as the best course of action to save someone who is choking, but now experts say there is a better way. Since it was published in 1974, the Heimlich ...

MOSS BLUFF, La. (KPLC/CNN NEWSOURCE/WKRC) - A dramatic incident unfolded at a Louisiana restaurant when a server sprang into action to save a choking customer. Madison Brydels, who was hanging ...

Dramatic video caught the moment a 9-year-old North Carolina student saved his classmate from choking by performing the Heimlich maneuver last week. Jayceon Branch, a student at Raleigh Oak Charter ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — East Kentwood High School senior Natalie May saved a man’s life this past Tuesday by performing the Heimlich maneuver at Brann’s Steakhouse and Grille in Grand Rapids. “It’s kind ...

“It’s just very emotional, I guess… just shocking to me that I was able to do that for someone," Natalie May recalled of her heroic action A Michigan high school senior’s recent education in the ...

A dog was spotted choking in a dramatic video before its owner jumped in to perform the Heimlich maneuver. In footage obtained by CCTV, a woman in Bangkok, Thailand, was seen making food in the ...

MAYWOOD, Ill. (WLS) -- A doctor thanked a cafeteria cashier for saving her life as she started choking at the Loyola University Medical Center. Emergency room Dr. Joan Dimopoulos was eating a chicken ...

Nineteen-year-old Owen Thurnau is being credited with saving a man's life after the Owatonna, Minnesota, Hy-Vee employee successfully gave the Heimlich maneuver to a choking man last month. It ...

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — Even if the whole thing didn’t happen in a loud grade school lunch room, no one would have heard the choking child crying for help, because an important thing to know ...