obstructed airway maneuver

Maneuver for opening the airway of a patient with obstruction, such as the Heimlich maneuver. This maneuver is followed by sweeping debris from the patient's mouth by grabbing the tongue & lower jaw as a unit with the thumb & fingers of one hand & pulling them anteriorly & caudally, then placing the index finger of the opposite hand along the inside of the cheek deeply into the throat to the base of the tongue using a hooking action to dislodge a foreign body into the mouth where it can be grasped & removed.

Related

airway obstruction basic life support (BLS)

Specific

head tilt-chin lift Heimlich maneuver jaw thrust maneuver

References

Manual of Medical Therapeutics, 28th ed, Ewald & McKenzie (eds), Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1995, pg 171