How do you treat a passenger choking in an aircraft?

Answer 1

If someone is choking then for someone to perform the Heimlich manoeuvre is the recommended course of action.

This is performed as follows

# Ask the choking person to stand if he or she is sitting. # Place yourself slightly behind the standing victim. # Reassure the victim that you know the Heimlich maneuver and are going to help. # Place your arms around the victim's waist. # Make a fist with one hand and place your thumb toward the victim, just above his or her belly button. # Grab your fist with your other hand. # Deliver five upward squeeze-thrusts into the abdomen. # Make each squeeze-thrust strong enough to dislodge a foreign body. # Understand that your thrusts make the diaphragm move air out of the victim's lungs, creating a kind of artificial cough. # Keep a firm grip on the victim, since he or she can lose consciousness and fall to the ground if the Heimlich maneuver is not effective. # Repeat the Heimlich maneuver until the foreign body is expelled. If this is not sufficient then the aircraft's crew will (if it is a large craft) have first aid training which may be appropriate.

Medical assistance may be sought by radio, if necessary - through air traffic control.