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More elderly Americans are choking to death. Are these devices the answer?

More elderly Americans are choking to death. Are these devices the answer?

NEW YORK (AP) — It was the scariest choking incident David Palumbo had ever seen. The 88-year-old man had been… NEW YORK (AP) — It was the scariest choking incident David Palumbo had ever seen. The 88-year-old man had been dining at a Providence, Rhode Island, Italian restaurant in September 2019. Now he was unconscious, with a piece of bread …

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More elderly Americans are choking to death. Are these devices the answer?

More elderly Americans are choking to death. Are these devices the answer?

It was the scariest choking incident David Palumbo had ever seen. The 88-year-old man had been dining at a Providence, Rhode Island, Italian restaurant in September 2019. Now he was unconscious, with a piece of bread lodged in his windpipe. Precious minutes went by as first responders were unable to help him with CPR or the Heimlich maneuver. In an …

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Jurassic Fish Died from Choking on a Floating Creature

Jurassic Fish Died from Choking on a Floating Creature

A remarkable discovery of ancient fish fossils has revealed a chilling and unusual pattern: Tharsis, a now-extinct genus of ray-finned fish, may have met its end in the same tragic way. Analysis of fossilized specimens has shown that these carnivorous fish, which lived during the Jurassic period, frequently died with belemnites—large cephalopods—lodged in their gullets. This bizarre and fatal phenomenon …

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A device or the Heimlich maneuver: What to do when someone is choking

A device or the Heimlich maneuver: What to do when someone is choking

NEW YORK (AP) — It was the scariest choking incident David Palumbo had ever seen. The 88-year-old man had been dining at a Providence, Rhode Island, Italian restaurant in September 2019. Now he was unconscious, with a piece of bread lodged in his windpipe. Precious minutes went by as first responders were unable to help him with CPR or the …

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