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 Burton (physician) his discovery that a blue line on the gums, the eponymous Burton line, is a symptom of lead poisoning. Henry Burton married Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter of William Poulton of Maidenhead, at St. George's, Bloomsbury, in 1826. She died in 1829, without issue, and Henry did not remarry. Henry lived at 41 Jermyn Street, London, and 58 Marina, St Leonards. Henry Burton (physician) Dr. Henry Burton (27 February 1799 – 10 August 1849) was an eminent British physician and chemist, who is famous for his identification of blue discolouration of the gums, the eponymous Burton line, as a symptom of