Skip to:ContentBottom
Cover image for Heimlich's maneuvers : my seventy years of lifesaving innovation
Title:
Heimlich's maneuvers : my seventy years of lifesaving innovation
JLCTITLE245:
Henry J. Heimlich, MD.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2014.
Physical Description:
253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781616148492
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-243) and index.
Personal Subject:
Contents:
Heeeeere's Heimlich! -- My beginnings -- Happy times in Sing Sing prison -- Medical school challenges and a strange internship -- En route to China -- A health clinic in the Gobi desert -- A medical newbie searches for a surgical residency -- Saving a life and finding love -- Restoring the ability to swallow : the reversed gastric tube -- Operation -- Taking the reversed gastric tube operation behind the iron -- Curtain -- A boy named Hayani -- A promise to a dead soldier kept : the Heimlich chest drain -- Valve -- Saving the lives of choking victims : the Heimlich maneuver -- The American Red Cross and back blows -- The gift of breath : the Heimlich microtrach -- Challenging the medical establishment -- Working toward a caring world.
Go to:Top of Page