Henry Heimlich Heimlich's medical assistant in China. The design of the valve allows air and blood to drain from the chest cavity in order to allow a collapsed lung to re-expand. The invention was credited with saving the lives of hundreds of American soldiers in the Vietnam War. Heimlich first published his views about the maneuver in a June 1974 informal article in "Emergency Medicine" entitled, "Pop Goes the Cafe Coronary". On June 19, 1974, the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" reported that retired restaurant-owner Isaac Piha used the procedure to rescue a choking victim, Irene Bogachus, in Bellevue, Washington. From 1976 to 1985, the
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