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
Henry Dewar (physician) Malte-Brun. He wrote also for the "Encyclopædia Britannica", and the "Transactions" of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He married Helen Margaret Spence (1800-1870), an American from Philadelphia, in May 1809. They had six children including James Dewar, Donald William Dewar (1825-1851), Dr Henry Andrew Dewar (1812-1861), Mary Dewar (1810-1869) (who married Dr Gilman Kimball). Henry Dewar (physician) Henry Dewar of Lassodie MD FRSE (1771–1823), originally Henry Frazer or Fraser, was a Scottish minister turned physician, known as a writer. His father was John Frazer, minister of the Associate Church at Auchtermuchty, in Fife, Scotland; his mother was Margaret Erskine. He