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- nahsrocketeer75, on 02/03/2009, -1/+45I'm happy for these famous people. My son is not famous, but his kindergarten teacher saved *his* life with the Heimlich and for that I will be forever grateful.
- Iwantawii, on 02/04/2009, -1/+25"Help is on the way!"
-Mrs. Doubtfire - LongShlong, on 02/04/2009, -0/+13Full House called... They want their writers back.
- gr33k, on 02/03/2009, -2/+15Cher was the first person ever to get the Heimlich 500 years ago
- giveer, on 02/04/2009, -0/+131. Cher
2. Goldie Hawn
3. Ronald Reagan
4. Elizabeth Taylor (choked on a bone.. huh..huh..)
5. Halle Berry
6. Walter Matthau & Jack Lemmon
7. Ed Koch
8. Dick Vitale
9. Carrie Fisher
10. Joan Nathan - acmaurer, on 02/03/2009, -0/+10And once again we learn yes, celebrities are real people too.
- K4Lic0, on 02/04/2009, -0/+10She died of heart failure, there just happened to be a partially eaten ham sandwich in her room.
From wiki:
"An urban legend arose that Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich. Speaking to the press shortly after her body was discovered, the police noted that a partly eaten sandwich had been found in her room and speculated that she may have choked while eating it. When the coroner's autopsy was performed, no food was found in her trachea and the cause of death was determined to have been heart failure and that she had died in her sleep." - inactive, on 02/04/2009, -3/+12What ***** moron saved Cher?
- buckygrad, on 02/04/2009, -1/+10Dan Aykroyd proposed to Carrie Fisher?
- indubitably, on 02/04/2009, -0/+7anyone here save a stranger with the heimlich? do they send you christmas cards for the rest of your life?
- danwallace, on 02/04/2009, -0/+7Megan Fox.
- danwallace, on 02/04/2009, -1/+8Dugg for random, unexplained Goldie Hawn.
- squishee, on 02/03/2009, -2/+9Oh, so that's why "Believe" sounds like a garbled mess--Cher was choking.
- mmittimm, on 02/04/2009, -1/+7Wow, this is like a cesspool of retarded comments.
- daniel1113, on 02/04/2009, -0/+6"How's it coming along, Dr. Heimlich?"
"Well, not very well at the moment. It's not really a maneuver at the moment. It's more of a gesture." - jcgreenx, on 02/03/2009, -2/+8Dwight Schrute's
- DrewPeacock, on 02/04/2009, -0/+5Some people cannot hold up a squirming 50 pound child with one hand. Food for thought.
- nogChoco, on 02/04/2009, -0/+5Groping someone from behind is the way to do it.
- LongShlong, on 02/04/2009, -0/+4Sean Connery.
- aaronhoffmeyer, on 02/04/2009, -0/+4Henry J./Jay/Judah Heimlich, MD, was born in 1920 and grew up in Wilmington, Delaware, and yesterday he turned 89. In 1963, he invented a chest drainage flutter valve which keeps people from drowning/suffocating when they have a collapsed lung. A variation of the valve is still used today and has saved numerous people.
In 1974, while working as a doctor in Cincinnati, Ohio, he published an informal article in Emergency Medicine titled, "Pop Goes the Cafe Coronary," in which he described the abdominal thrusts procedure to save people who are choking. Whether he came up with the idea for the procedure, or he heard it from a colleague is debatable, but he was the first to take the idea to the press. Soon thereafter, people started using the procedure to save choking victims, and Dr. Heimlich started touring the talk show circuit and children's shows, to inform people about it. In 1976, the Red Cross and American Heart Association started teaching the procedure.
Also, in 1976, Dr. Heimlich was fired by Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati, and his contributions to medicine thereafter have been dubious, at best. Still, the legacy of the procedure is that it has saved many lives. Because of the doubt about Dr. Heimlich having the original idea, the medical establishment has stopped calling it the "Heimlich Maneuver," and instead, refers to it as the "abdominal thrusts procedure to save people who are choking," or simply "abdominal thrusts."
Before 1975, death from choking on food, pills or small toys, in the case of children, was an all-too-common tragic worldwide experience, and almost everyone knew someone who had died from choking. In 1974, my uncle was a basketball coach at a high school and all the athletes and coaches were attending the annual sports banquet, when the athletic director choked on a piece of steak. No one knew how to save him, and he died in front of hundreds of kids and adults. That same year, a 1-year-old boy in a family that my family knew well died from choking on a small plastic ball. When Dr. Heimlich started touting the abdominal thrusts procedure a year later, the consensus among my family was that both of these people probably would have been saved if someone present had known the procedure.
In 1980, while at the optometrist's office, my youngest brother, who was four at the time, choked on a piece of candy and started the characteristic gasping-without-getting-any-air panic. The optometrist lifted him upside down by his feet and gave about five back blows and on the last one, the candy popped out. If the back blows had failed, the Heimlich Maneuver would have been next.
There is no accurate way to count the choking incidents in which people have been saved by the procedure since 1975, because most incidents are not reported when the procedure succeeds, but conservative estimates could be in the millions. Still, more than 3000 people die in the US every year from choking, mostly because there either wasn't someone else present to save them, or no one knew about the "Heimlich Maneuver" (I couldn't find any data on choking deaths before 1975). Just FYI, if you are alone, you can perform the procedure on yourself, ala John Belushi's famous Elizabeth Taylor interview on SNL, or by using a chair back to lean on.
Before 1975, a common way to express how short life could be was to say, "I could be hit by a car or choke to death tomorrow." Now people mostly say, "I could be hit by a car/truck tomorrow." - Ninjapope, on 02/04/2009, -0/+4Is Carrie Fisher flashing the shocker?
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.........."""----...____________....--' - Foxprowl, on 02/03/2009, -0/+4If you could save any celebrity's life by doing the Heimlich, who would it be?
- FatLoser, on 02/04/2009, -0/+4"Heimlich's maneuver can break ribs and induce vomiting, in all case you should try and slap people in the back as hard as you can before trying Heimlich maneuver."
Don't perform that ***** on me!! I'd rather die than have a broken rib and some vomit on my shoes. - BrianD2, on 02/04/2009, -0/+3Finally I'll be able to answer somebody when they ask me who were some famous people saved by the heimlich.
- RobotKeaton, on 02/04/2009, -0/+3Why do Walter Matthau & Jack Lemmon only count as 1 person?
- sbcea, on 02/03/2009, -2/+5How did someone do the Heimlich on C3PO ... oh wait, sorry ... got confused for a moment.
- darzeecompany, on 02/04/2009, -0/+3Hilda! Hilda! Wake up, Hilda! I have invented a maneuver!
- mmittimm, on 02/04/2009, -1/+3They may be old now, but if you read the captions most were younger when it actually happened... so what's your point again?
- RobotKeaton, on 02/04/2009, -0/+2Yeah? Well I had sex with your wife!
- SenoraObscura, on 02/04/2009, -0/+2My boss was saved by the heimlich, and now the guy who saved her gets free chiropractic care for life.
- inactive, on 02/05/2009, -0/+2how odd.
- SenoraObscura, on 02/04/2009, -0/+2A fist! A hand! Hoocha hoocha hoocha... lobster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgedQnlqkno - WordsnCollision, on 02/03/2009, -4/+6Too bad the Heimlich wasn't around when Mama Cass choked on that ham sandwich.
- stufflebean, on 02/04/2009, -0/+2Hoocha, hoocha, hoocha. Lobster.
- RobotKeaton, on 02/04/2009, -1/+3The Jerk Store called....They want YOU back!
- SolidBones, on 02/05/2009, -0/+2Now she'll be around for another gruesome century!
- xtmno3, on 02/04/2009, -0/+2Kristen Bell
- PrintScrn12, on 02/04/2009, -0/+2I'd save Heimlich before he invented the manoeuvre, to ensure we had manoeuvre for me to learn in first aid class.
- crashingechelon, on 02/04/2009, -0/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Fisher#Persona ...
According to Wikipedia, they were engaged for a while. The things you always learn about people. - mrnobody546, on 02/04/2009, -0/+24. Elizabeth Taylor — In 1978 Elizabeth Taylor choked on a bone (giggidy) and had to be rescued.
- Exclip, on 02/04/2009, -0/+211 pages for a picture on each page accompanied by a tiny paragraph?
- baltakatei, on 02/04/2009, -0/+1Now, where is the list of the first 10 victims of the Heimlich Counter-Maneuver?
- inactive, on 02/05/2009, -0/+1UK office ftw
- HoldenMyOwn, on 02/04/2009, -0/+1No way that is worse than #15
- WoollyMittens, on 02/04/2009, -0/+1Should you rescue someone using the Heimlich, please take the victim to the emergency room of a hospital anyway. Jamming your fist into someone may save them from choking, but it's really sloppy to have them die from internal injuries a day later.
- kitsua, on 02/04/2009, -0/+1Beat me to it by 39 minutes. Eddie Izzard ftw!
- oaktree, on 02/04/2009, -0/+1Honestly, I may have thought twice if I were at the same table with Dick Vitale....
- inactive, on 02/05/2009, -0/+1choking is not awesome, baby!
- brownspank, on 02/04/2009, -0/+1They used a shoe.
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