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This man had 4 minutes to live. No one was in the room. He survived because he knew something 95% of the world doesn’t.
Choking kills over 365,000 people globally every year, according to the WHO.
95% of these choking episodes share one variable: the person was alone. Not because the obstruction was worse. Because no one was there to help, and the victim didn’t know how to help themselves.
Without oxygen, brain damage begins in as little as 4 to 6 minutes. Average ambulance response time globally? Eight minutes or more. In many countries, they don’t arrive at all. The math is unforgiving.
You either know what to do in the first 60 seconds, or you don’t survive long enough for help to arrive.
This man survived for one reason, he’s a medical worker. He knew the self-Heimlich exists. He knew to use the back of a chair to generate subdiaphragmatic thrust against his own epigastrium.
That’s not his instinct. It’s training.
Now think about who doesn’t have that training. Elderly people eating alone. Toddlers. Anyone living by themselves who has never been shown that a chair, a countertop, or even your own fist can substitute for another person’s hands.
The Heimlich maneuver was invented in 1974. Fifty years later, most people on Earth still don’t know it exists, let alone that you can perform it on yourself.
112K+ people watched this video. Almost none of them would have thought of actually learning the technique. They watched a man almost die and just felt relieved.
Here’s what the video should have taught you:
In case you’re alone and choking:
Step 1: Make a fist. Place the thumb side just below your rib cage, above your navel.
Step 2: Grasp it with your other hand. Thrust sharply inward and upward.
Step 3: If that doesn’t work, lean over any firm surface. A chair back. A countertop edge. A railing
Step 4: Drive your upper abdomen against it. Hard. Repeat until the airway clears.
That’s 15 seconds of knowledge. Don’t forget that. Save this post.
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A medical worker in Türkiye saved his own life after choking while eating alone. With no one around to help, Ilyas Yildir used a chair to perform the Heimlich manoeuvre on himself, dislodging food stuck in his throat
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