What in the world is the heiney lick maneuver?

Question

They want to teach us that tomorrow in first aid class......no way am I going to do that!

Answer 1

I don't know, but I am so excited! Hubby says he will show me first thing tonight after we get the kid to bed!
He's such a giver!

Answer 2

You are silly! Firstly, heiney licking can be fun, but not likely to be taught in first aid class. Second, they probably mean to teach you the Heimlich Maneuver which is a way of dislodging something that has become stuck in the air passage of another person. You can read more about it here: http://www.heimlichinstitute.org/howtodo.html

Answer 3

I believe they will be teaching you the Heimlich maneuver which is to help a choking victim. When a person is choking and isn't able to speak or breath they need help quickly. On an adult you would stand behind them and wrap your arms around his waist. Make a fist and place the thumb side of your fist against the abdomen - below the ribcage and above the navel. Grab your fist with your other hand and press into their abdomen with a quick upward thrust. Don't squeeze the rib cage. Keep repeating until whatever is choking them is expelled. This maneuver creates an artifical cough by forcing the diaphragm up toward the lungs. There are slightly different procedures for performing this on infants,children, pregnant women, yourself or unconscious victims.

Answer 4

Considering you will be practicing on a doll, it shouldn't really be a problem for you, as long as your get to lick first.
Not a good idea to lick where 30 others have gone before.
Once the heiney work is done, you can proceed to the actual maneuver and learn how to save a life... :))

Answer 5

I'm not sure what a Heiney lick maneuver is, but a Heimlich manuever is when you lock someone in from behind, and using your arms to apply pressure to the diaphragm, you force an object up and out of the trachea.

Answer 6

The Heimlich maneuver is an emergency technique for preventing suffocation when a victim's airway (windpipe) becomes blocked by a piece of food or other object. It can be used safely on both adults and children, but most experts do not recommend it for infants less than 1 year old. It can also be self-administered.

For a conscious victim who is sitting or standing, position yourself behind the victim and reach your arms around his or her waist. Place your fist, thumb side in, just above the victim's navel and grab the fist tightly with your other hand. Pull your fist abruptly upward and inward to increase airway pressure behind the obstructing object and force it from the windpipe. The procedure may need to be repeated several times before the object is dislodged.

A related technique exists for a victim who is, or who becomes, unconscious.

If repeated attempts do not free the airway, an emergency incision in the windpipe (tracheostomy or cricothyrotomy) may be necessary

Answer 7

It is actually called the "Heimlich Maneuver". It is what you do when someone is choking.

The Heimlich Maneuver for CHOKING:

A choking victim can't speak or breathe and needs your help immediately. Follow these steps to help a choking victim:

-From behind, wrap your arms around the victim's waist.

-Make a fist and place the thumb side of your fist against the victim's upper abdomen, below the ribcage and above the navel.

-Grasp your fist with your other hand and press into their upper abdomen with a quick upward thrust. Do not squeeze the ribcage; confine the force of the thrust to your hands.

-Repeat until object is expelled.

Answer 8

It is a maneuver that is used to dislodge food or any other obstruction from a person's air way so that they can breathe. It is done by placing your arms around the person's stomach from behind and placing your hands over each other just below the rib cage (one in a fist) and jerking in on the person's stomach to help the person dislodge the obstruction in their throat. In your first aid class they will be more technical. It can save a life.

Answer 9

Why not? You could save someone's life. It's called the Heimlich maneuver, and it's used when someone is choking to death. You first make sure the person can't breath, then stand behind him (or her) and reach around to just below his ribs and put your hands together and pull fast towards you. Whatever is stuck in the person's throat comes flying out, and he or she can breathe again. Everyone should learn hos to do this.

Answer 10

I think you mean the "Heimlich maneuver." It is a first aid maneuver used to dislodge food from someone's throat who is choking. You wrap your arms around the waist of the choking person and press on their stomach area, forcing air through their windpipe and pushing the stuck food out of their throat.

Answer 11

heimlich manuever helps you if you are choking

The abdominal thrusts also known as Heimlich Manoeuvre, is a first aid procedure for clearing an obstructed airway. It is an effective life-saving measure in cases of choking.

Dr. Henry Heimlich also has promoted it as a treatment for drowning and asthma attacks, but the practice of using the manoeuvre for these afflictions has not gained wide acceptance.

The Heimlich manoeuvre is named after Henry Heimlich, who first described it in 1974. However, Edward A. Patrick, MD, PhD, has claimed to be the uncredited co-developer of the manoeuvre. The thrust was later mastered by Dr. Earl Peters in the early 80's and became the universal way to stop a person from choking.

Contents [hide]
1 Performing the Heimlich manoeuvre
1.1 Indications that someone is choking
1.2 On an unconscious victim
1.3 On oneself
1.4 On an infant
1.5 After the airway is clear
2 External links



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Performing the Heimlich manoeuvre
Briefly, a person performing the Heimlich manoeuvre uses their hands to exert pressure on the bottom of the diaphragm. This compresses the lungs and exerts pressure on any object lodged in the trachea, hopefully expelling it. This amounts to an artificial cough. (The victim of an obstructed airway, having lost the ability to draw air into the lungs, has lost the ability to cough on their own.)

Even when performed correctly, the Heimlich manoeuvre can injure the person it is performed on. Some countries such as Australia have banned its use in favour of safer, more effective techniques. The Heimlich manoeuvre should never be performed on someone who can still cough, breathe, or speak - bend them at the waist, head down, encourage them to cough, and deliver a series of thumps between their shoulderblades using a flat palm.




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Indications that someone is choking
The person cannot speak or cry out.
The person's face turns blue from lack of oxygen.
The person desperately grabs at his or her throat.
The person has a weak cough, and labored breathing produces a high-pitched noise.
The person does any or all of the above, then becomes unconscious.
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On an unconscious victim
If the victim is unconscious or loses consciousness, yell for help before proceeding. If no help is available, you may want to attempt to dislodge the object prior to leaving the victim to call for help. You may be able to dislodge the foreign object, open the victim's airway, and allow them to breath normally on their own. Every minute that a victim is without oxygen, heart and brain tissue dies. Neither rescue breathing nor CPR will be effective if the victim's airway is occluded.

If the victim is pregnant or too large for the first aid provider to wrap their arms around, the person giving the Heimlich manoeuvre positions himself behind the victim as usual, but moves his arms up into the victims armpits, and makes a fist in the centre of the chest, over the sternum. The rescuer makes swift inward movements until the victim becomes unconscious or the object is dislodged.

If the victim becomes unconscious, medical help should be summoned immediately, and the rescuer should kneel down astride the victim. The rescuer then places his hands over the centre of the sternum, just as he would as if giving CPR. The rescuer will then perform compressions the same ratio as for CPR, but will check the airway after each cycle of compressions, to see if the object has been dislodged. If it has been dislodged, the rescuer shall remove it and attempt to give rescue breathing.

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On oneself
A person may perform the Heimlich manoeuvre on themselves using the same procedure described above. One hand is balled into a fist and placed against their upper abdomen, while the other hand grabs the first and directs it in a series of upward thrusts until the airway is clear.

A person may also perform the Heimlich manoeuvre on themselves by leaning their upper abdomen against a fixed object (such as the back of a chair) and repeatedly thrusting their body downward against the object until they expel the obstruction. Usually, a person must jump in the air and fall onto the object to provide sufficient force. It is likely that one may break a rib or become severely bruised.

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On an infant
To perform the Heimlich manoeuvre on a child less than one year old, the child is positioned on their back. The first aid provider kneels at the child's feet and places the index and middle fingers of one hand together against the upper abdomen of the child, below the rib cage and above the navel. These fingers are covered with the index and middle fingers of the other hand. The top hand then repeatedly presses the fingers of the lower hand upward and into the child's abdomen, until the airway is clear. This must be done gently. The same force as would be used on an adult victim should not be used because it could result in injury to the child.

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After the airway is clear
After the obstructing object or liquid has been expelled from the airway, it is possible, especially if the victim was unconscious to begin with, that the victim may not resume breathing on their own. Continuing the Heimlich manoeuvre will not restore breathing. Artificial respiration (if the patient has a pulse but is not breathing) or CPR must be used for this purpose (if there is no pulse).

Medical advice is necessary after a Heimlich manoeuvre:

when the person breathes again: it may be necessary to have a medical evaluation due to possible secondary trauma;
when the person does not breathe: to get a paramedic or a medical team for medicalised resuscitation (the phone call should be made before beginning the CPR);