Another Dechoker client reported using their Dechoker ACD to prevent a resident from choking when the obstruction couldn’t be cleared using back blows and abdominal thrusts.
Launceston is situated off the A30 and has an average ambulance response time of over 12 and a half minutes based on the last available data. Another successful outcome in what would otherwise have been a very different story.
Read MoreAn “inspiring” disability campaigner suffered a cardiac arrest after choking on a sandwich in a shopping centre, an inquest heard.
Robert Droy, 44, from Hulse Road in Southampton, died six days later in an Oxford hospital.
He choked on a piece of a sandwich he bought from the Paul bakery in the Westgate Oxford shopping centre.
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Read MoreThe death of a mental health patient who choked on a McDonald’s meal in an ambulance has been ruled accidental.
David Scales, 68, requested the food at Watford Gap services on the M1 in Northamptonshire, as he was taken from London to Leeds on 3 January 2017.
He fell unconscious and died on 11 January at Northampton General Hospital after a week in a coma.
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