If a person is obese, the Heimlich maneuver is done with the person lying on his back on the floor. If this is necessary, the person is already unconscious.
If the news report is true and only the technique of putting arms around the chest was used, then the teachers and students did not know how to the Heimlich.
If there were nurses at a blood drive, it is likely that they got there too late and brain damage had already occurred. Does it take you more than three minutes to run from the gym to a point farthest from there and back again. That is the time it would have taken students to run from the young man to the nurses, explained the problem to them and had them run back.
It is sad, but I hope the lesson learned from this tragedy is that some of those teacher prep days would be better spent in CPR and first aid training.
Hopefully, the health classes will stop pushing the condoms and start teaching basic CPR, first aid, and other sensible subjects as preventing dehydration, and safe food preparation.
If the news report is true and only the technique of putting arms around the chest was used, then the teachers and students did not know how to the Heimlich. Have you ever been involved in a controversial event and then read or watched a news account of it? ;-)
From the news account, apparently the student's airway wasn't totally blocked in the beginning, and apparently some of the first responders were able to clear it, but either not in time or there were confounding factors.
I hope the lesson learned from this tragedy is that some of those teacher prep days would be better spent in CPR and first aid training.
IMO, that would be more useful than 99.9% of the "in-service" training they force on us, but who knows?
Hopefully, the health classes will stop pushing the condoms and start teaching basic CPR, first aid, and other sensible subjects as preventing dehydration, and safe food preparation.
With all due respect, you aren't in the schools and your children were never in schools, so you don't really know what they are teaching in health classes.
Here is the high school health curriculum for my state. I'm sure it differs state to state. Ours is a bit heavy on the sex & drug prevention education, but it does include first aid and CPR.