A Liverpool care home has seen first hand just how beneficial having a DeChoker on site can be, when one of their residents began choking last week.
The incident occurred during breakfast time at Flightcare’s Orchard Care Home, with staff having done all they could and the resident unresponsive.
Continue reading “Resident saved from choking and avoids trip to A&E”
Read MoreAt at time where there doesn’t appear to be a huge amount of good news we are once again pleased to say Dechoker has been used to save another life in a choking emergency.
Earlier this week carers at the Ashley Court care home in Llanelli were unable to deliver Basic Life Support and thankfully were able to call on their training and Dechoker for help.
Continue reading “Carers reacted when Llanelli resident began choking on their breakfast”
Read MoreWhen a piece of potato got stuck in a resident’s airway at Beverley Parklands Care Home in East Yorkshire, care staff knew exactly what do.
Fortunately, as well as First Aid all Yorkare staff are trained how to use a DeChoker and have devices in all of the group’s care homes ready to be called on in a choking emergency.
Continue reading “Another resident will be ‘with us for Christmas’ thanks to DeChoker”
Read MoreOnce again, 2 clients at almost opposite ends of the country have reported calling on their DeChoker devices when faced with a resident in a choking emergency.
This time in Plymouth, Devon and again in Ormskirk, Lancashire where care staff were faced with a resident in a severe choking emergency.
Continue reading “Another week. Another 2 choking deaths avoided with DeChoker”
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”
Read MoreCarer Buki Krasniqi has been hailed a “superhero” after saving the life of a Hampstead pensioner who almost choked to death on a slice of toast, reports the Ham&High
Buki, 50, was making 92 year-old Eunice Waller her second cup of tea of the morning when the older woman began to choke. “When I was making the cup of tea, I heard her struggling. Then I saw her. Her face was completely blue,” she told the Ham&High.
Read MoreThis year’s National Association of Safety and Health in Care Services (NASHICS) ceremony saw Yorkare Homes presented with the ‘Best Practice’ award for 2019
The Yorkshire based care provider was judged to have taking innovative steps towards improving staff and resident safety after deploying DeChoker devices across all their homes earlier this year.
Continue reading “Yorkare win Care Sector Safety Award for choosing DeChoker”
Read MoreSTAFF at a Wyre Forest care home have praised an innovative anti-choking device which was used to save the life of a resident who “turned blue” after choking on a piece of sausage.
First-aiders at Casa Mia Care Home in Far Forest turned to the Dechoker as a last resort after back slaps and abdominal thrusts failed to revive a woman who fell unconscious for between three and four minutes during dinner on 18th July.
Continue reading “Carers at Kidderminster Care Home save woman who choked on sausage”
Read MoreOver 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.
Read MoreApproaching 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.
Continue reading “2nd Worksop Care Home to use DeChoker on choking resident in 2 days”
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