Henry Heimlich Henry Heimlich Henry Judah Heimlich (; February 3, 1920 – December 17, 2016) was an American thoracic surgeon and medical researcher. He is widely credited as the inventor of the Heimlich maneuver, a technique of abdominal thrusts for stopping choking, described in "Emergency Medicine" in 1974. He also invented the Micro Trach portable oxygen system for ambulatory patients and the Heimlich Chest Drain Valve, or "flutter valve", which drains blood and air out of the chest cavity. Heimlich was born in Wilmington, Delaware, the son of Mary (Epstein) and Philip Heimlich. His paternal grandparents were Hungarian-Jewish immigrants, and his maternal
Luke Heimlich social worker and his father works in construction. When he was 15 years old, Heimlich pleaded guilty to sexually molesting his six-year-old niece. This conviction came to the public's attention in 2017 due to a clerical error where the Oregon State Police believed he had failed to update his registration as a sex offender. In 2018, Heimlich denied the allegations, saying he pleaded guilty to "quickly dispense with the case and for the sake of family relations." Luke Heimlich Luke Heimlich (born February 3, 1996) is an American baseball pitcher. He attended Oregon State University and played college baseball for