NOUN
- an emergency procedure to help someone who is choking because food is lodged in the trachea
How To Use Heimlich maneuver In A Sentence
- For drowning victims in particular, there now seems to be a sound body of evidence that mouth-to-mouth may do more harm than good, and that the Heimlich maneuver should be used instead.
- By 1985 Heimlich had used his considerable celebrity from developing the Heimlich maneuver for choking to finagle a seat on the American Heart Association's Special Situations Committee.
- But, unfortunately, more people have heard of Heimlich maneuver than actually know how to administer it.