Henry Heimlich choking-rescue guidelines of the American Heart Association and of the American Red Cross taught rescuers to first perform a series of backblows to remove the FBAO (foreign body airway obstruction); if backblows failed, then rescuers learned to proceed with the Heimlich maneuver (aka "abdominal thrusts"). After a July 1985 American Heart Association conference, backblows were removed from choking-rescue guidelines. From 1986 to 2005, the published guidelines of the American Heart Association and the American Red Cross recommended only the Heimlich maneuver as the treatment for choking; the National Institutes of Health still does apply it for conscious persons over one
Dr. Jay Loeffler Dr. Jay Loeffler Dr. Jay Steven Loeffler (born December 27, 1955) is an American physician at Massachusetts General Hospital where he serves as Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology since 2000. He is the Herman and Joan Suit Professor of Radiation Oncology and Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School. Born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Loeffler attended The Hill School in Pottstown, Williams College and the Alpert Medical School at Brown University. After medical school, he trained at the former Harvard Joint Center for Radiation Therapy in Boston serving as Chief Resident. He worked in the Laboratory of Radiobiology under