His work is responsible for saving thousands of lives, but Dr. Henry Heimlich had never actually used the Heimlich maneuver on an actual person. Until Monday.
Heimlich was eating dinner at his Cincinnati retirement community when the woman next to him, 87-year-old Patty Ris, started choking on a chunk of hamburger meat.
The doctor, who has been demonstrating the maneuver for decades, jumped to her aid — and managed to dislodge the meat and clear her airway in a matter of minutes.
“It worked right away,” Ris told NBC News. Read more…
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