In a choking emergency, delivering back blows and abdominal thrusts on someone is difficult enough. If that person needs support when standing, then doing either is going to be harder still.
If you are a wheelchair user, or you support, know or work with someone who is, you may want to take a moment to consider the options available in a choking emergency.
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Despite being regarded as at risk of aspiration, a frail and elderly main died after a choking incident. HM Assistant Coroner Graeme Irvine heard at the inquest into the death
Mr Boardman was an elderly and frail man who experienced a decline in his health in late 2019. After being mistakenly sent home by the Royal London Hospital the patient was readmitted shortly before Christmas.
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In most cases it’s food that causes people to choke and accounts for around 85% of all choking deaths according to the Office for National Statistics.
This still leaves a lot of incidents where this isn’t the case. And for some people with a variety of conditions their reasons for choking are not as a result of eating and drinking.
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Care staff stepped up again last week when a resident began choking and was struggling to breathe. Working together they administered first aid which failed to remove the obstruction.
Fortunately, all services within the Coverage Care group have Dechoker devices on-site and once deployed, their airway was cleared in seconds and recovery took minutes.
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Do Not Attempt Resuscitation orders or a DNAR order, as they are often known, are back in the news again. Also known as a DNACPR we are often asked if ‘a DNAR still applies when someone is choking?
With the announcement today the CQC begin are to begin a review of their use in adult care, we thought some guidance for the sector might beneficial.
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To support the people they care for – and the people that provide that care – both Sanctuary Care and Sanctuary Supported Living have become the latest adult care provider to deploy Dechoker across all sites.
More than 350 Dechoker ACD kits are now on care home and supported living sites owned by parent Sanctuary Group, with eLearning provided by My Learning Cloud.
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A family removed their dad from a care home after they claim he ‘almost died’ from choking on a piece of cake.
Ken Burrows, 72, was rushed to hospital on with aspiration pneumonia after the food allegedly became clogged in his airway. He survived but never returned to the home where he had lived for five years.
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Carers at Newcastle based adult care provider Hadrian Healthcare, recently updated their skills using the new Dechoker training course, supported by their existing eLearning provider Care Shield.
The complete CPD Certified module is now available on the Care Shield platform, allowing instant access to shared clients of both companies if required.
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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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