[sageb1]

And no one used Heimlich?

[null and void]

There are school rules agains hugging.

[caryatid]

And no one used Heimlich?

Apparently, the only "rule" the teachers knew was that cell 'phones were not allowed ... no common sense there ... poor kid ... stupid teachers ...criminal negligence.

[lawdude]

"And no one used Heimlich?"

Teaching the Heimlich was dropped to allow the teaching of the proper way to put on a condom!

[Mr. Brightside]

And no one used Heimlich?

Sorry. Not written in the teachers contracts.

[Bear_Slayer]

I'm not sure what he could have done. Having multiple arms might help, but they are kinda short.

[wintertime]

And no one used Heimlich?

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In my health clinic it is law that every staff member be CPR certified every two years. I pay for it for the entire staff. We regularly have emergency drills and all emergency equipment is checked monthly.

Thankfully, in 27 years of practice we have never had a life threatening emergency.

I would think that teachers should be held to the same standard.

[Elyse]

And no one used Heimlich?

I was eating lunch in the office with 4 other adults one day and I started choking on a piece of chicken. I couldn't talk and all I could do was make hand signals at my throat. Everyone just looked at me with weird looks. I could not believe that 4 intelligent adults couldn't see I was choking!

After what seemed like an eternity, I could feel that I was about to pass out and I grabbed a chair and started trying to do the Heimlich on myself. It was then that it clicked in one of the guy's heads that I was choking and he ran over and practically lifted me off the ground and I hurled a large piece of chicken across the room. (I ended up having to go into emergency surgery because the large jagged half of a wishbone had embedded itself in my esophagus)

I would never have believed that an intelligent adult could watch a person choke to death and not realize what was happening, but I'm a believer now.

[Toespi]

"And no one used Heimlich?"


Obviously not, probably wasn't allowed in school.

[Uri’el-2012]

And no one used Heimlich?

I guess there were no Boy Scouts there.

[redheadtoo]

And no one used Heimlich?

That was my thought. I work with the disabled and everyone I work with, including custodians and secretaries, are required to pass a first aide course. I can't believe that a school teacher would not know what to do in this situation. Not to mention that it appears that none of the students knew what to do either. The Heimlich maneuver is a very simple technique and anyone who has had any exposure to the Boy Scouts should know how to do this.

[dcwusmc]

I was at a VFW function a few years ago, after the Memorial Day observances, and a Korean War vet started to choke on a bite of burger... I stepped behind him, gave him the hug and out it popped. No big deal, everybody went home alive. It works. Maybe the 911 operator could have talked someone through doing it had the teacher not done what she did. Sounds like panic-ville to me, and when you panic you fall back on really STUPID stuff. If the investigation shows that to be the case, the kid's family should become the new owners of everything she has and ever HOPES to have.