Question 36 · LDEK · Breathing disorders and airway management
Heimlich maneuver is used to:
- A. remove a foreign body from the upper respiratory tract in the case of choking.
- B. obtain non-instrumentally the patency of the upper respiratory tract.
- C. facilitate intratracheal intubation.
- D. protect airways from aspiration.
- E. none of the above.
Hint
Think of the abdominal thrust manoeuvre and the situation in which a conscious person cannot cough effectively.
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