1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: The Day in History Class. It's a production of I 2 00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey y'all, I'm Eves and Welcome to the 3 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:10,039 Speaker 1: Stand History Class, a podcast that truly believes no day 4 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: in history is a slow day. Today is doing first. 5 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:26,680 Speaker 1: The day was June first, ninety four. The Timelike maneuver 6 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: was unveiled in an article in the journal Emergency Medicine. 7 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 1: The Heimlich maneuver is a technique used to stop a 8 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: person from choking. At the time, choking was a common 9 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:40,840 Speaker 1: cause of accidental death in the US. The American Red 10 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: Cross recommended slapping a choking victim on the back to 11 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 1: help them if coughing did not work. That would dislodge 12 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 1: the food or other objects that caused the person to choke, 13 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: but some doctors believed that backslaps could lodge an object 14 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 1: deeper in the airway. A thoracic surgeon named Dr Henry 15 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 1: Heimlike decided to find a better way to rescue people 16 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 1: who were choking. In the nineteen sixties, Heimlich had invented 17 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: a device that drained fluid from open test wounds that 18 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: used a flutter valve to prevent backflow. The Heimlich valve 19 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 1: saw use in the Vietnam War as well as American hospitals. 20 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: Of the early nineteen seventies, Heimlic had turned his attention 21 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 1: to anti choking techniques. He first tested his methods on dogs, 22 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:27,759 Speaker 1: then worked to adapt his procedure for people. He wanted 23 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: anybody to be able to perform the procedure, not just 24 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:36,040 Speaker 1: medical professionals. On June one, nineteen seventy four, the journal 25 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 1: Emergency Medicine published an article by Himlike that detailed a 26 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: method for helping people who are choking. The article was 27 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 1: titled Pop Goes the cafe Coronary. The term cafe coronary 28 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: refers to a sudden death due to food obstructing the airway. 29 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: Timlike called the method subdia fragmatic pressure, and this method, 30 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: air expelled through the victim's lungs would propel the object 31 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: out of the victim's throat. There are several positions a 32 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 1: person can be in to administer the Himelike maneuver. A 33 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: well known one is when a person stands behind the 34 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: choking victim, puts their thumb inside their fists just above 35 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 1: the navel, and grabs their fists with their opposite hand. 36 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 1: Then the rescuer presses inward and upward on the person's 37 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 1: belly to free the obstruction from their airway. The maneuver 38 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: can also be done on someone lying on their back, 39 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 1: and people can perform it on themselves. The Himelike maneuver 40 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:33,080 Speaker 1: gained popularity, and Himli made television appearances promoting the method. 41 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 1: Celebrities claimed it's saved them from choking. A few months 42 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 1: after the article was published, the Journal of the American 43 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 1: Medical Association dubbed the method the Heimlike maneuver. By nine six, 44 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: the American Heart Association and American Red Cross recommended performing 45 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: abdominal thrust on a choking victim if backslaps did not work. 46 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 1: A decade later, both organizations stopped recommending backslaps and only 47 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 1: commended the Heimlich maneuver for choking. One of Heimlike sons, 48 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:07,360 Speaker 1: Peter Heimlich, said that his father tried to discredit the 49 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 1: practice of hitting someone on the back to keep them 50 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: from choking. Peter also said that his father funded a 51 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:15,920 Speaker 1: study in the nineteen eighties that concluded hits to the 52 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: back could be more harmful than beneficial. He claimed that 53 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,359 Speaker 1: his father was a fraud who was good at public relations, 54 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: and that the Heimlich Institute just promotes his father's dangerous ideas. 55 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 1: In two thousand three, Henry Heimlick's colleague Dr Edward Patrick 56 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 1: claimed that he helped develop the maneuver but was not 57 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: credited for it. Heimlike has been criticized for his work 58 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: by others as well. He called for the use of 59 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: the Haimlike maneuver and cases of near drowning and asthma, 60 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: but its effectiveness in these cases has been discredited and 61 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 1: it could even prove harmful. Heimlich also advocated malarial therapy, 62 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: which is the controversial process of purposefully infecting a person 63 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: with malaria to help them with HIV, lime disease, cancer, 64 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: and other conditions. Now, the American Red Cross recommends trying 65 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: five backslaps for people who are conscious and choking, and 66 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: if that doesn't work, trying five abdominal thrust. The American 67 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 1: Heart Association still only recommends abdominal thrust for conscious choking. 68 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 1: I'm like claimed that his maneuver has saved tens of 69 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:25,280 Speaker 1: thousands of lives, but there's debate over just how effective 70 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 1: and safe it is. I'm eas Jeff Coo, and hopefully 71 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,359 Speaker 1: you know a little more about history today than you 72 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: did yesterday and if you have any comment, star suggestions 73 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: are just nice notes that you want to send us. 74 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: You can send those to this Day at i heeart 75 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 1: media dot com. 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