The LifeVac is a non-invasive, non-powered, portable ACD (Airway Clearance Device) developed to remove an object or food that has become lodged in a person’s throat or windpipe causing airway obstruction. Its unique design provides choking victims (including small children, elderly, disabled and...
which is designe d to draw foreign objects from the throats of choking victims when procedures such as the Heimlich Maneuver (海姆利克急救法) don't work. He has sol d about 5,000 LifeVac devices in the Unite d States an d abro a d since the device went on the market in August 2014...
Dr. Lee Smith at Northwell Health said that if a choking victim can’t breathe, he or she becomes a candidate for the Heimlich. If the Heimlich doesn’t work, the victim would probably lose consciousness because of a lack of oxygen. A challenge for any new medical device is convincing ...