Heimlich's maneuvers : my seventy years of lifesaving innovations / Henry J. Heimlich, MD.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781616148492 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1616148497 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2014.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Heeeeere's Heimlich! -- My beginnings -- The depression, anti-semitism, and visits to Sing Sing Prison -- Medical-school challenges and a strange internship -- En route to China -- A health clinic in the Gobi desert -- A medical newbie searches for a surgical residency -- Saving a life and finding love -- Restoring the ability to swallow : the reversed gastric tube operation -- Performing the reversed gastric tube operation behind the Iron Curtain -- A promise to a dead soldier kept : the Heimlich chest drain valve -- A boy named Hayani -- Saving the lives of choking victims : the Heimlich maneuver -- The American Red Cross and back blows -- The gift of breath : the Heimlich MicroTrach -- Making the most of good ideas -- Working toward a caring world. |
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Subject: | Heimlich, Henry J. Physicians > United States > Biography. |
Genre: | Biography. |
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