According to various interviews given by Dr Henry Heimlich during his lifetime (he passed away in 2016 at age 96), the eponymous maneuver he championed in the 1970s is responsible for saving the lives of tens of thousands of people and a not insignificant number of dogs…
The genesis of the Heimlich maneuver can be traced back to 1972 when Dr. Heimlich, who was a Cincinnati-based thoracic surgeon at the time before getting fired a couple years later, read an article in the New York Times that revealed that over 3,000 people in the United States died from choking on food in that year alone.
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