Editing Abdominal thrusts (section)

== History ==
Thoracic surgeon and medical researcher [[Henry Heimlich]], noted for promulgating abdominal thrusts, claimed that back slaps were proven to cause death by lodging foreign objects into the windpipe.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/opinion/l06heimlich.html|newspaper=The New York Times|title=Heimlich, on the maneuver|access-date=February 7, 2009 | date=February 6, 2009}}</ref> A 1982 Yale study by Day, DuBois, and Crelin that persuaded the American Heart Association to stop recommending back blows for dealing with choking was partially funded by Heimlich's own foundation.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://pittmed.health.pitt.edu/AUG_2005/life_jackets.pdf|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Medical School|title=Lifejackets on Ice (August 2005)|access-date=May 24, 2009}}</ref> According to Dr. Roger White of the [[Mayo Clinic]] and [[American Heart Association|American Heart Association (AHA)]], “There was never any science here. Heimlich overpowered science all along the way with his slick tactics and intimidation, and everyone, including us at the AHA, caved in.”<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rcMqOFGzb_oC&q=a+new+maneuver+mills-senn&pg=PA88|publisher=Cincinnati Magazine|title=A New Maneuver (August 2005)|author=Pamela Mills-Senn|date=April 2007|access-date=December 22, 2013}}</ref>

Henry Heimlich also promoted abdominal thrusts as a treatment for [[drowning]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.heimlichinstitute.org/drowning.php |title=Heimlich Institute on rescuing drowning victims |access-date=June 5, 2007 |archive-date=January 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080124163011/http://www.heimlichinstitute.org/drowning.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[asthma]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.heimlichinstitute.org/asthma.php |title=Heimlich Institute on rescuing asthma victims |access-date=June 5, 2007 |archive-date=March 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110314151117/http://www.heimlichinstitute.org/asthma.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> attacks. The Red Cross now contests those claims. The Heimlich Institute has stopped advocating on their website for the Heimlich maneuver to be used as a first aid measure for drowning victims. Heimlich's son, Peter M. Heimlich, alleges that in August 1974 his father published the first of a series of fraudulent case reports in order to promote the use of abdominal thrusts for near-drowning rescue.<ref name="pheimlich">{{Cite web|url=http://www.medfraud.info|title=Outmaneuvered – How We Busted the Heimlich Medical Frauds |first=Peter M |last=Heimlich |access-date=June 22, 2007}}</ref><ref>[http://medfraud.info/TimesLeader_8-22-07.html Heimlich's son cites Dallas case in dispute.] ''Wilkes-Barre News'', August 22, 2007</ref> The 2005 drowning rescue guidelines of the American Heart Association<ref name = Drowning>{{cite journal|date=November 25, 2005|title=Part 10.3: Drowning|journal=Circulation|volume=112|issue=24|pages=133–135|doi=10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.166565|doi-access=free}}</ref> did not include citations of Heimlich's work, and warned against the use of the Heimlich maneuver for drowning rescue as unproven and dangerous, due to its risk of [[vomiting]] leading to [[Pulmonary aspiration|aspiration]].<ref name = Drowning/>

In May 2016, Henry Heimlich, then age 96, claimed to have personally used the maneuver to save the life of a fellow resident at his retirement home in Cincinnati. It was alleged to be either the first or second time Heimlich himself used his namesake maneuver to save the life of someone in a non-simulated choking situation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/27/dr-heimlich-performs-heimlich-manoeuvre-for-first-time-aged-96|title=Dr Henry Heimlich uses Heimlich maneuver to save a life at 96|first=Joanna|last=Walters|website=[[TheGuardian.com]]|date=May 27, 2016}}</ref> According to Heimlich's son, Peter M. Heimlich, “both 'rescues' were bogus.”<ref>{{Cite news|last=Samways|first=Ana|date=October 28, 2021|title=Sideswipe: Too good to be true?|work=New Zealand Herald|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/sideswipe-october-29-alfresco-dining-in-ponsonby-2021/6SCDQNZUUI2ORSHIYVVSQ5J2SU/|access-date=December 12, 2021}}</ref>