Prevention is better than any cure. And whilst DeChoker can be used to help in a choking emergency, if the need can be avoided in the first place this is clearly better for everyone.
In the current Care and Nursing Essentials Magazine (page 21) the team at DeChoker UK draw on their experience to offer a series of Tips on Reducing the risk of a choking incidents in the adult care sector Continue reading “DeChoker: Tips on reducing choking incidents in Adult Care”
Read MoreFamily owned provider Flightcare were established in 1991 and are owner operators of seven quality nursing and residential care homes in Merseyside.
As part of their ongoing commitment to improving both staff training and resident safety, Flightcare are deploying DeChoker devices across all of their adult services.
Continue reading “Merseyside based Flightcare become latest care provider to deploy DeChoker”
Read MoreA firefighter who saved a child’s life in an airport, minutes before his flight was due to leave, has been named Whitchurch’s Citizen of the Year.
Keith Robinson has been a firefighter for nearly 37 years and has been rewarded with the prestigious title after his wife nominated him.
Read MoreA beloved family man died after choking on a Sunday roast dinner at his daughter’s home. Stefan Laws died on November 25 last year after going round to her house in Goole, Hull.
At the inquest into the 53-year-old’s death held Hull Coroner’s Court heard that his family and their neighbours had desperately tried to clear his throat using back slaps and the Heimlich manoeuvre.
Continue reading “Hull ‘Family man’ died after choking on his Sunday roast dinner”
Read MoreThe first patient admitted to a Mental Health Rehabilitation Centre in Orford, Warrington died after choking on a sprout an inquest has heard.
The Court heard that the vegetable should have been cut up for the 50-year-old before being given to him.
Continue reading “Mental Health patient died choking on sprout, inquest hears”
Read MoreThe health watchdog said “some aspects of the service” at a home care company based in Walsall, “were not always safe” and that there was “limited assurance about safety”.
The inspection was sparked by the death of a resident who was being cared for by the service, which led to concerns about the ability of staff to respond to people who were choking, according to a report by the CQC.
Continue reading “Safety concerns at care company after choking death”
Read MoreA coroner has issued a warning to adult care providers about the dangers of latex gloves after a resident was found dead in the lounge of her care home in Greater Manchester.
The 78-year old female resident who suffered from Dementia and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) was admitted to the home in June 2018 after being assessed as requiring full-time care.
Continue reading “Coroner issues warning about Latex gloves as Care Home resident dies.”
Read MoreA man has died after choking on food at a Wetherspoon in Somerset.
A customer at The Palladium Electric in Midsomer Norton was given CPR at the scene after he began to choke on his meal on 11th November.
Paramedics who attended the location treated the man before being taken to hospital, where he later died.
Continue reading “Man dies after choking on food at Somerset pub”
Read MoreFailures could have “caused or contributed” to the death of a student who choked on his own vomit at Bodmin Hospital.
That was the conclusion of the jury at an inquest into the death of 28-year-old Pawel Bielec, from St Ives.
The four-day hearing was told that Pawel had been allowed unsupervised leave from Fettle House psychiatric rehabilitation unit at Bodmin Hospital on July 1, 2016
Continue reading “Cornwall hospital failings as patient choked on his own vomit”
Read MoreOur aim to prevent 100 choking deaths in the UK took even quicker steps to becoming a reality last week with 2 more of our client’s using their DeChoker.
Despite being over 300 miles apart in Cornwall and Burton-on-Trent, both adult care providers found themselves in similar situations when a resident began to choke.
Continue reading “1 Week – 2 Lives Saved”
Read More