Henry Heimlich

Henry Heimlich. , Dr. Henry J. Heimlich was the inventor of the Heimlich maneuver, a technique for saving the lives of people who are choking. In the early 1970s, after learning that nearly 4,000 Americans die each year from choking on food or small objects, Dr. Heimlich researched ways to sub diaphragmatic pressure to save victims of choking., IN 1974, he developed a method that allowed air trapped in the lungs to be used to expel the object from the victim's airway, a method that came to be known as the Heimlich Maneuver. Simple and easy to perform, the Maneuver involves a rescuer standing behind a patient and using his or her hands to exert pressure on the bottom of the diaphragm. This compresses the lungs and experts pressure on any object lodged in the trachea, hopefully expelling it., The Heimlich Maneuver has saved countless lives including President Ronald Reagan, Elizabeth Taylor, Goldie Hawn, Jack Lemmon, Cher, NIcole Kidman, Halle Berry, New York Mayor Ed Koch, news anchorman John Chancellor , as well as Rod Kennedy, Creator of the New Rochelle Walk of Fame., Henry Judah Heimlich was born in Wilmington, Delaware on February 3, 1920. As a child his family moved to New Rochelle where he lived on 8th Street and also on Stephenson Blvd. He graduated from New Rochelle High School in 1937. In 1951, Heimlich married Jame Murray, daughter of ballroom-dancing entrepreneur Arthur Murray.