The 96-year-old retired chest surgeon credited with developing the namesake Heimlich maneuver has used it to save a woman choking on food at his senior living center. "As soon as I did the Heimlich maneuver, a piece of meat with a bone in it immediately popped out," he said. Dr. Henry Heimlich was in the dining room at the Deupree House in Cincinnati, where he lives, when an 87-year-old woman sitting next to him began choking Monday night. The Heimlich maneuver involves abdominal thrusts applied to a choking person in an effort to lift the diaphragm and force air from the lungs to dislodge any object. Heimlich has said he developed the maneuver after reading accounts of people choking in restaurants, with many of them dying.

Source: ABC News May 27, 2016 07:51 UTC