Choking is the most helpless feeling in the world. But I’m equally terrified of being in the position where I need to save someone who is choking. Sure I learned the Heimlich Maneuver in high school, but I think it’s fair to say I’d probably choke under the pressure. So a big kudos to Emma Howard, the 10-year old English girl who saved her choking mom using the Heimlich Maneuver that she learned at her elementary school just four days prior to being thrust into action.
Rachel Howard- a 37-year-old nurse- got a piece of a cucumber stuck in her throat and after being unable to dislodge it herself became reliant on young Emma, who ran downstairs to their kitchen to save her mom. After trying slaps to her mom’s back, Emma successfully conducted the Heimlich.
Emma had been taught the manuever at Beamont Community Primary School in Warrington, Cheshire. “I want to thank the school for teaching their pupils first aid and tell them well done,” Rachel said.
“I think we should get her on the A&E team,” the nurse said. “I told my colleagues at work and they were dead pleased with her.”
Good looks to the school for teaching the maneuver, and major props to Emma even though you make me look even more inept by comparison.
(h/t Mirror.co.uk)
