Editing Choking (section)

==== Chest thrusts ====
[[File:Chest thrusts against choking.jpg|thumb|380x380px|Chest thrusts anti-choking technique: If the victim cannot receive thrusts on the abdomen, use chest thrusts. Embrace the victim's chest from behind and then apply strong compressions on the lower half of the chest bone, but not in the very endpoint. Avoid sticking the knuckles too painfully.]]When abdominal thrusts cannot be performed on the victim (serious injuries, pregnancy, or belly size that is too large for the rescuer to effectively perform abdominal thrust technique), chest thrusts are advised instead.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Choking and CPR safety talk |url=https://ehs.okstate.edu/site-files/docs/cpr-and-choking-5-min-safety-talk.pdf/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200130145512/https://ehs.okstate.edu/site-files/docs/cpr-and-choking-5-min-safety-talk.pdf/ |archive-date=2020-01-30 |website=Oklahoma State University}}</ref>

Chest thrusts are performed with the rescuer embracing the chest of the choking victim from behind. Then, the rescuer closes the own dominant hand and grasps it with the other hand. This can produce several kinds of fists, but any of them can be valid if it can be placed on the victim's chest without sinking a knuckle too painfully. Keeping the fist with both hands, the rescuer uses it to press forcefully inwards on the lower half of the chest bone ([[sternum]]). The pressure is not focused on the very endpoint (named [[xiphoid process]]) to avoid breaking it. When the victim is a woman, the zone of the pressure of the chest thrusts would normally be above the level of the breasts. If the first thrust does not solve the choking, it can be repeated several times.