A care home in Folkestone, Kent became the latest provider to deploy a Dechoker ACD in a choking emergency when an elderly resident struggled to breathe.
Food was once again the issue, but with Dechoker ACD kits present in all of the provider’s homes and trained staff the situation was resolved quickly and successfully. Well done everyone, you know who you are.
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Possible tragedy was avoided earlier this week as a care home in Cheadle, Greater Manchester deployed one of their Dechoker devices as a resident choked on some food.
Food is by far the most common cause of choking across all ages, and is surprisingly more common to result in death in the elderly that than the young.
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Just days after another Dechoker ACD was used to remove a piece of peeled tomato prevent a choking incident – this time broccoli was the culprit.
Some 30-minutes from the nearest ambulance station, care staff were able to deploy their Dechoker ACD when first aid treatment failed to remove the offending vegetable.
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Within just a few years of Dechoker being made available to the Adult Care sector in the UK, an NHS Foundation Trust published an efficacy study exploring 27 lives saved with the device in the UK
Covid constraints on medical journals during 2020 delayed the the peer-reviewed study which was finally published in December by Frontiers – one of the leading open-access medical journals in the world.
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