Henry Heimlich has died
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Henry Heimlich has died
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#2""As a young surgeon, Dad was the first American to devise and perform a total organ replacement. Later, he came up with a device that saved thousands of soldiers' lives during the Vietnam War. The Heimlich Chest Drain Valve is still used worldwide for patients undergoing chest surgery."
Clearly Heimlich should be known for more than the HM.
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#3The Heimlich maneuver is one of those things that's much more recent than I imagined. (Another is the bicycle, the modern design of which is only from the late 1800s, just a few decades before the automobile and airplane.)
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#4I am by no means denigrating the man's accomplishments, he certainly was a great man. However, it is worth noting that he became something of a quack, advocating that the maneuver could cure various ailments unrelated to choking.[0] The linked Radio Lab episode provides a full picture of the man and is very interesting.
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#5The Heimlich maneuver is one of those things that's much more recent than I imagined. (Another is the bicycle, the modern design of which is only from the late 1800s, just a few decades before the automobile and airplane.)
Wow, you aren't kidding. I had imagined it to be an invention of the 1950s, not the seventies.
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#6I am by no means denigrating the man's accomplishments, he certainly was a great man. However, it is worth noting that he became something of a quack, advocating that the maneuver could cure various ailments unrelated to choking.[0] The linked Radio Lab episode provides a full picture of the man and is very interesting. [0] http://www.radiolab.org/story/273532-heimlich/
There is also some really weird stuff with his kids, where at least one of his sons and the son's wife consider him to be a total fraud. Gelman wrote about it here (including link to son's page) http://andrewgelman.com/2016/10/09/heimlich/
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#7Chalk another one up to 2016.
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#8Black bar?
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#9I am by no means denigrating the man's accomplishments, he certainly was a great man. However, it is worth noting that he became something of a quack, advocating that the maneuver could cure various ailments unrelated to choking.[0] The linked Radio Lab episode provides a full picture of the man and is very interesting. [0] http://www.radiolab.org/story/273532-heimlich/
There is also some really weird stuff with his kids, where at least one of his sons and the son's wife consider him to be a total fraud. Gelman wrote about it here (including link to son's page) http://andrewgelman.com/2016/10/09/heimlich/
From the comments section:
http://andrewgelman.com/2016/10/09/heimlich/#comment-325017
> Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is stranger than truth. Andrew’s next-to-last sentence links to:
> “(The Heimlich manoeuvre) has never been used in Australia. Despite the claims of the extremely charismatic Dr. Heimlich, Australian resuscitation experts believe that there isn’t enough scientific evidence to support its use. So how does a medical procedure become so widely adopted without any serious scientific evidence? — The Heimlich manoeuvre by Aviva Ziegler, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, July 27, 2009”
I'm on mobile so am not able to look it up easily, but I'm assuming there are some experiments to verify beyond anecdotes whether the maneuver works, right?
Also, what do Australians use in lieu of it?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is also some really weird stuff with his kids, where at least one of his sons and the son's wife consider him to be a total fraud. Gelman wrote about it here (including link to son's page) http://andrewgelman.com/2016/10/09/heimlich/
From the comments section: http://andrewgelman.com/2016/10/09/heimlich/#comment-325017 > Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is stranger than truth. Andrew’s next-to-last sentence links to: > “(The Heimlich manoeuvre) has never been used in Australia. Despite the claims of the extremely charismatic Dr. Heimlich, Australian resuscitation experts believe that there isn’t enough scientific evidence to support it…
According to Wikipedia:
In some areas, such as Australia, authorities believe that there is not enough scientific evidence to support the use of abdominal thrusts and their use is not recommended in first aid. Instead, chest thrusts are recommended.