Dr. Henry Heimlich, the surgeon who invented the life-saving Heimlich maneuver, has died, according to NBC News. He was 96.
Heimlich’s son, Phil, told NBC News that his father passed away on Saturday at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati after suffering a heart attack earlier in the week.
“My father was a great man who saved many lives,” Phil, an attorney and former Hamilton County commissioner, told NBC News. “He will be missed not only by his family but by all of humanity.”
According to NBC News, Heimlich was director of surgery at Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati in 1974 when he developed the Heimlich maneuver,...
Heimlich’s son, Phil, told NBC News that his father passed away on Saturday at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati after suffering a heart attack earlier in the week.
“My father was a great man who saved many lives,” Phil, an attorney and former Hamilton County commissioner, told NBC News. “He will be missed not only by his family but by all of humanity.”
According to NBC News, Heimlich was director of surgery at Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati in 1974 when he developed the Heimlich maneuver,...
- 12/17/2016
- by Maria Mercedes Lara
- PEOPLE.com
Dr. Henry Heimlich, the man behind an anti-choking maneuver that's undoubtedly saved thousands of lives has died. According to local reports, Heimlich -- inventor of the Heimlich Maneuver -- passed away just after midnight Friday in a Cincinatti, Oh care facility. His family released a statement saying, "Dad was a hero to many people around the world for a simple reason: He helped save untold numbers of lives through the innovation of common-sense procedures and devices.
- 12/17/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Henry Heimlich, 96, known for inventing the lifesaving Heimlich Maneuver in 1974, put his invention to good use on Monday, saving a woman’s life. Henry Heimlich Uses The Heimlich To Save A Woman Heimlich was reportedly eating a steak in the dining room of the Deupree House, a senior living community in Cincinnati, Ohio, when […]
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- 5/29/2016
- by Shantel Whitaker
- Uinterview
Dr. Henry Heimlich, inventor of the Heimlich Maneuver, may have used his own invention for the first time - more than 40 years after he first described it. The now-96-year-old told the Cincinnati Enquirer Thursday that his rescuing of a fellow resident of the Deupree House senior living facility on Monday was the first time he has ever had the opportunity to use his namesake maneuver on a live choking victim. Witnesses told the Enquirer that Heimlich jumped into action when 87-year-old Patty Ris began choking on her dinner. "I saw someone standing behind her as she sat down," said Perry Gaines,...
- 5/28/2016
- by Andrea Park, @scandreapark
- PEOPLE.com
At 96, Henry Heimlich thought he would never use the maneuver he invented to save a life. That changed last Monday, when the doctor came to the aid of one of his fellow retirement home citizens. Heimlich was enjoying a steak dinner at the Dupree House senior living facility in Cincinnati, Ohio, when he noticed the 87-year-old Patty Ris choking on her hamburger, according to CNN. Also Read: Clint Eastwood Saves Choking PGA Tour Executive's Life Heimlich jumped up, spun Ris around, and began the lifesaving technique he invented in 1974 to dislodge food trapped in a victim’s airways. After three forceful thrusts,...
- 5/28/2016
- by Lawrence Yee
- The Wrap
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