- Dr. Heimlich saves the life of an 87-year-old woman with the maneuver he invented
A 49-year-old woman died last Sunday, May 28, while eating a squid sandwich on the terrace of a bar located in the Plaza de la Constitución de Colmenarejo, a municipality in the mountains of Madrid of 9,130 inhabitants, as confirmed yesterday by the Command of the Civil Guard.
The doctors of the Summa 112 received a warning of possible choking on the terrace of a bar at 10.55 am last Sunday, according to the information provided by a spokesman for 112. When the doctors arrived at the place they found a woman in a cyanotic state and in cardiorespiratory arrest who had been previously treated by agents and members of Civil Protection. After 20 minutes of attempted resuscitation, the doctors of the ICU of the Summa certified his death.
The deceased woman was admitted to a residence for people with intellectual disabilities and her relatives had moved to Colmenarejo who went together to have breakfast at one of the bars in the town square.
Witnesses said the woman began to feel unwell and began to convulse. They added that the agents of the Civil Guard, Local Police and Civil Protection who were deployed on the occasion of election day arrived quickly at the site and who tried unsuccessfully to make the Heimlich maneuver while the Summa ICU arrived.
The workers of the bar where the event occurred, one of the most popular in Colmenarejo, were also very affected by what happened and made themselves available to the family of the deceased woman.
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