The first action that should be taken when someone is choking on food is to perform
a. a tracheostomy.
b. CPR.
c. the Heimlich maneuver.
d. X-rays to determine where the food is lodged.

Answer

C

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Okay, so one problem. 14 now. And this is about what happens if someone is is choking. And this is actually pretty serious for for infants and small children especially. And so what is the? The key to this question is the first action. What is tthe e first action, right. And and so it does this Ah, short listed. One thing to note is that CPR CPR is for the heart. It's to restart the heart, so to speak. So that's not gonna be our answer here. So we're given a tracheostomy, which is a surgery, which seems like it would not be good for a first action. It's a little bit extreme. Okay, so maybe not a first action. Can you have X rays As a choice? X rays. And And while that may be useful to know where food is lodged, if someone is choking, they have limited time, right? They only not breathe for so long. And do you think you could not breathe long enough to get to the hospital, have X rays taken, read the X rays and then move forward? I'm presuming no eso gonna say that's that's not really it either. And So the main point of this question is were sort of learning about the Heimlich, Then you there, right? And so what exactly is that? Assist this process where you grab the choking person. Sort of from this depends on the age and size of the person, but generally you sort of grabbed them from around the waist from behind. So if you have a choking person here, uh, you would sort of grab them around the waist from behind, right? So such a stat right under the ribs and you force in. So squeeze really tight knit force, uh, on their abdomen. And this this should sort of force air out of the lungs. Right? And hopefully it'll have enough force that it sort of expels the food. Also, the credit answer here is going to be See the Heimlich maneuver.

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