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 MoreFailures could have “caused or contributed” to the death of a student who choked on his own vomit at Bodmin Hospital.
That was the conclusion of the jury at an inquest into the death of 28-year-old Pawel Bielec, from St Ives.
The four-day hearing was told that Pawel had been allowed unsupervised leave from Fettle House psychiatric rehabilitation unit at Bodmin Hospital on July 1, 2016
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Read MoreOur aim to prevent 100 choking deaths in the UK took even quicker steps to becoming a reality last week with 2 more of our client’s using their DeChoker.
Despite being over 300 miles apart in Cornwall and Burton-on-Trent, both adult care providers found themselves in similar situations when a resident began to choke.
Continue reading “1 Week – 2 Lives Saved”
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