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

It's hard to imagine but there was a time when the Heimlich maneuver didn't exist. The life-saving technique has helped countless people who have needed assistance while choking. But the children of ...

Whenever and wherever a student in Ohio’s Revere schools starts choking, there will be someone nearby trained to save a life. That’s the idea driving the decision by the school district to train its ...

A popular restaurant chain in Albuquerque wants all of its staffers to be trained on defibrillators, CPR and the Heimlich maneuver.The push comes after the owner’s relative recently died from choking ...

Harrowing video captured the moment a school security guard saved a student from choking by performing the Heimlich maneuver. Robin Cooper, a security guard at Greece Athena High School in Rochester, ...

Kori Scott remembered the time six years ago when her father performed the Heimlich maneuver to save her from choking, so she recognized what was happening and knew what to do when a friend eating a ...

HAVERILL (CBS) - An eighth grader at Whittier Middle School in Haverhill says a custodian saved his life. This happened during lunch, when custodian Luis Gonzalez saw 14-year-old Elijah Marinez ...

FREEHOLD BOROUGH – When Michelle Mirabello saw one of her kindergarten students choking on a piece of apple two weeks ago, she put her Heimlich training to work and popped the object out on the first ...

Sen. Rand Paul stepped in to help a colleague who was choking at a Republican conference lunch at the Capitol on Thursday, according to The New York Times. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, began to choke ...