Henry Heimlich, MD, a thoracic surgeon who invented an anti-choking maneuver that saved an untold number of lives, died today at age 96 of complications from a heart attack earlier in the week. The ...
Heimlich’s Maneuvers: My Seventy Years of Lifesaving InnovationBy Henry J. Heimlich(Prometheus Books, 253 pages, $19.95) Dr. Henry Heimlich is an American treasure. You undoubtedly know him from the ...
Heimlich used the maneuver named after him in May to save a fellow resident at a Cincinnati retirement home where he lived. (JTA) — Henry Heimlich, who invented the life-saving technique to save ...
How will the world remember Dr. Henry Heimlich? It may not remember him at all, as "abdominal thrust" is now the term of choice of the Red Cross and the American Heart Association for the life-saving ...