2025 Guidelines for Choking are Good. But Consider These Cautions Shawn Offers.

The 2025 guidelines for treating a conscious choking adult or child are the first significant changes for this emergency in decades. Knowing the guideline and skills could help save a life.

My post - Choking 4 - will clearly demonstrate those skills for you. I encourage you to view that video in the series before this one to better understand the information I offer here. https://shawnritchey.com/adult-or-child-unable-to-cough-or-speak-demo-on-caring-for-the-conscious-person-whos-choking/

The 2025 guidelines are referencing ILCOR (International Liaison Committee of Resuscitation). ILCOR put out its first guideline in 2000 and has continued every 5 years since. This Committee includes 8 international councils representing: Asia Australia/New Zealand Canada Europe InterAmerica Heart South Africa United States.

In this video Shawn offers insight and caution regarding each of the skills in the current guideline when caring for a conscious choking adult or child.

Regarding Backslaps - part of the 2025 guideline - I would caution you providing the backslaps to an adult or child while they are still coughing as some have suggested. This action may cause the person to inhale deeply upon being slapped and could cause them to suck the obstruction in further.

In the next two posts learn how to care for the unconscious person who had been choking. Later in this series we will also address infant choking skills and even what to do if someone thinks they are choking but really aren't.

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Shalom Shawn