Teesside Live reported this week that a passenger stepped in to save a 4-year-old girl who he awoke to find choking aboard a Ryanair flight from Spain.
The Middlesbrough resident, named as Jordan Lowrie, managed to remove the sweet that was blocking the airway of little Summer Reed who was returning from holiday with her family.
A frantic effort to prevent a care home resident from choking whilst on a trip to pub lunch took place in a South Wales restaurant, an inquest has heard.
John Owen Cole, 82, of Elliots Hill Care Home, Haverfordwest, died on February 21 this year at Withybush Hospital.
Over a 2 day period last weekend, 3 of our care home clients had to call on their DeChoker to save a resident from choking.
From our first life saved in April 2018 in Manchester, to multiple uses over several days.
You can read their stories at the links below.
Thank you to everyone involved.
Approaching the 2 year anniversary of our launch in the UK, it is not an unusual occurrence to receive a call from a client telling us they have used a DeChoker in a choking emergency.
What is unusual is to receive 2 calls on the same day, from 2 different clients BOTH of whom had used their DeChoker to prevent a resident from choking.
Providing care for both dementia patients and people with learning difficulties presents its own challenges. And managing choking risk is a challenge more common in adult care sector in than is immediately obvious to many.
Wheelchair users are a perfect example of where the risk of choking may not necessarily be high, but managing that risk given that back blows and abdominal thrust (prev. Heimlich manoeuvre) are taught on people who are standing up.
Last weekend, as the residents of Brookholme Care Home in Chesterfield were enjoying their Sunday lunch care staff became aware of a problem. Despite all the precautions being in place, one of their residents looked like they were choking.
Care staff immediately intervened and began to attempt back blows and abdominal thrusts to try and clear their airway.
A man with learning disabilities described as the “life and soul” of his care home choked to death while eating a hot cross bun.
John Condron died on the evening of April 24 while eating with a couple of other residents at the Kingsley in Downs Park, Herne Bay.
Coverage Care Services, the not-for- profit adult care provider has chosen to deploy DeChoker devices across all their homes to meet the increasingly complex level of needs being faced by the sector.
The exclusively Shropshire based operator has 14 homes for older people, people with disabilities and those with age-related conditions across the county and has a ‘Focus on achieving the highest standards we can for those who put their trust in us’. says Operations Director, Debbie Price.
