Set in the beautiful village of Shipston-on-Stour in Warwickshire, staff at the Shipston Lodge Nursing Home have recently undertaken new choking awareness and response training.
With the significant risk of choking in the elderly the family-run, all-inclusive home installed Dechoker emergency choking equipment before opening in 2019 and have now updated their skills.
Lunchtime could have become a very different situation after a Northampton care home resident began to choke on some food.
In response care staff began to deliver choking First Aid which failed to remove the obstruction, leaving care staff with almost nothing else they could do.
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Staff at an Essex based provider of step down services and long-term residential care came to the aid of wheelchair user who began to choke this week.
When existing first aid treatments failed they turned to one of their Dechoker ACD kits which removed the scrambled egg. With staff knowing what to do the process took just seconds.
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A well rehearsed plan of action helped staff prevent a care home resident in their 90s from choking to death on yoghurt. Carers at the Essex based provider knew exactly what to do when the lunchtime incident occurred.
Recognising the significantly increased risk of choking to the elderly, all staff had only recently undertaken refresher training on the use of Dechoker using the CPD certified eLearning course.
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John Rodwell, 73, was a resident of Norfolk Lodge Care Home in Hunstanton, Norfolk.
At the inquest opening in Norwich, area coroner Yvonne Blake said Mr Rodwell died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Lynn last year.
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Yorkare Homes has once again called on Dechoker to assist in a choking emergency, with the resident remaining safe and well in the home.
It comes just months after the CQC cited their Yorkshire based care provider’s use of innovative technology as it delivered an Outstanding rating for their home in Hedon.
A care home resident from Rochester died after choking on a lump of pork which became stuck in his airway.
Care home staff say Mr Suggett was chewing slowly and began to go blue in the face. Gerald Suggett, 68, lived at Copperfields Care Home in Villa Road, Higham, in Rochester at the time of the incident.
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Last week the first shipment of Dechoker devices began to arrive at the offices of Voyage Care in Lichfield – ready to be rolled out withing weeks.
It’s not often that we deliver directly to a head office, but Voyage Care have their PPE distribution well managed and Dechoker devices will begin to go out to services shortly.
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A care home run by Royal Star & Garter in Solihull has been rated ‘Outstanding’ in all five areas in a Care Quality Commission (CQC) report.
The home earned the top rating across all five tested areas – Safety, Effectiveness, Care, Responsiveness and Leadership – following an inspection.
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A Liverpool care home has seen first hand just how beneficial having a DeChoker on site can be, when one of their residents began choking last week.
The incident occurred during breakfast time at Flightcare’s Orchard Care Home, with staff having done all they could and the resident unresponsive.
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