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Henry J Heimlich died at 96 Injury prevention involves primary, secondary or tertiary strategies. An important element in the secondary category is the Heimlich manoeuvre, introduced in 1974. Since then it has saved many lives, perhaps as many as 100 000, threatened by choking. Its founder, Henry J Heimlich, a thoracic surgeon and medical maverick, recently died at age 96. Ironically, he himself only used the manoeuvre once: saving a choking 87-year-old woman. Heimlich has many critics, partly because he was given to self-publicising. But he once commented on his contributions in these words: ‘I can do more toward saving lives in three minutes on television than I could do all my life in the operating room’. Complaints preceded fatal school bus crash Following a school bus crash that killed six children, it was discovered that several parents and some students had complaints about the driver. In...
Source: Injury Prevention - Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Tags: News and notes Source Type: research