📚 noun • entry_id 31804
Heimlich maneuver
Meanings (ES + gloss)
maniobra de Heimlich
A first aid procedure used to treat choking. The patient is lifted from behind, squeezing their diaphragm to expel air and thereby dislodging an obstruction in the windpipe.
There's a story I've been told several times of a dinner at London's Balthazar several years ago, at which assembled guests fell silent as Larry Gagosian[…]visibly choked on his fo…
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