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AIRWAY OBSTRUCTIONSLESSON 7
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Choking Emergencies
• Choking is a total or partial obstruction of airway
• Common cause of respiratory arrest
• Immediate care is needed
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Choking Risks
• Over 4,600 people die from choking each year
• Adults over age 65 are twice as likely to die as younger people from choking
Most cases can be prevented!
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Choking Risks continued
• Trying to swallow large pieces of food that haven’t been chewed sufficiently
• Eating too quickly
• Eating while engaged in other activities
• Alcohol or drugs often involved
• Dentures increase risk
• History of stroke
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Mild Choking
• Victim is coughing forcefully
• Victim is getting some air
- May be making wheezing or high-pitched sounds with breath
• Do not interrupt coughing or attempts to expel object
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Severe Choking
• Victim getting little air or none
• Victim may look frantic and be clutching at throat (universal sign of choking)
• Victim may have pale or bluish coloring around mouth and nail beds
• Victim may be coughing weakly and silently or not at all
• Victim cannot speak
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Choking Care (Responsive Adult or Child)
• Responsive choking victim who is coughing:
- Encourage coughing to clear object- Call 9-1-1 if object not immediately expelled
• Responsive choking victim who cannot speak or cough forcefully:
- Give abdominal thrusts
• If choking victim becomes unresponsive, immediately call 9-1-1
• Begin CPR with chest compressions
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Abdominal Thrusts (chest thrust)
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Responsive to Unresponsive
• If complete airway obstruction not cleared, victim will become unresponsive in minutes
• Quickly and carefully lower victim to floor on back
• Begin CPR with 30 chest compressions
- Check for object in mouth each time you open it to give rescue breaths
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Unresponsive Victim
• Check for normal breathing
• If victim not breathing normally, start CPR with 30 chest compressions
• If first breath doesn’t go in after opening airway – try again to open airway and give breath
• If second breath doesn’t go in – give care for choking
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Choking Infants
• If infant is crying or coughing – watch for object to come out
• If infant cannot cry or cough
- Have someone call 9-1-1- Give alternating back blows (slaps) and chest thrusts
• If infant becomes unresponsive – give CPR starting with chest compressions
- Check for object in mouth each time before giving a rescue breath
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• 5 Back blows
• 5 Chest thrusts
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