Foreign body airway obstruction (FBAO) is a preventable and potentially treatable
cause of accidental death [
[1]
]. Regarding FBAO, early intervention is usually successful; however, if the victim
is unresponsive and cardiac arrest occurs, survival rate is very low [
[2]
]. As most chocking events are associated with eating and they are commonly witnessed,
every citizen should be able to initiate the FBAO treatment algorithm that includes
choking detection and, according to the victim's status, cough encouragement, giving
back blows and abdominal thrusts and eventually starting cardiopulmonary resuscitation
(CPR) [
[1]
].To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Article Info
Publication History
Published online: March 20, 2018
Accepted:
March 19,
2018
Received in revised form:
March 17,
2018
Received:
March 13,
2018
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