Successful Resuscitation of Choking Victims Using a Lifevac, a Non-powered Portable Suction Device: Real World Experience: 2017 Presidential Poster Award: 1762
@article{LihBrody2017SuccessfulRO, title={Successful Resuscitation of Choking Victims Using a Lifevac, a Non-powered Portable Suction Device: Real World Experience: 2017 Presidential Poster Award: 1762}, author={Lisa Lih-Brody and A. E. Benenson and Rashawn Chin}, journal={The American Journal of Gastroenterology}, year={2017}, volume={112} }
body The World Congress of Gastroenterology Successful Resuscitation of Choking Victims Using a Lifevac, a Non-powered Portable Suction Device: Choking is a leading cause of accidental death worldwide and in the United States. Patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia are at a high risk for aspiration of food and thus, choking. Although there have been great technological advances, currently, there is no approved device to assist in the resuscitation of a choking victim when abdominal thrusts fail…
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Use of a Novel Portable Non-powered Suction Device in Patients With Oropharyngeal Dysphagia During a Choking Emergency
- MedicineFrontiers in Medicine
- 2021
A novel portable non-powered suction device (LifeVac; LifeVac LLC, Nesconset, NY) has been developed and may have potential use in patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia who are at increased risk of choking.
Resuscitation of Choking Victims in a Pediatric Population Using a Novel Portable Non-Powered Suction Device: Real-World Data
- Medicine
- 2020
Assessment of the use of a novel, portable, nonpowered suction device in pediatric patients who experience a choking emergency and for whom standard resuscitative protocols have failed found that a total of 21 pediatric patients recovered from a choking incident after using the device to remove the airway obstruction when standard resuscitate protocols failed.