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Step Action

5 Phone the your emergency response number (or 911) if

• The person has no medicine
• The person does not get better after using her medicine
• The person's breathing gets worse, the person has trouble

speaking, or the person stops responding

6 Stay with the person until someone with more advanced training
arrives and takes over.

7 See if the person needs CPR. If he does, give CPR. If you don't
know how, give Hands-Only CPR.

2. Choking in an Adult

What You In this section we'll cover

Will Learn Mild vs Severe Choking
How to Help a Choking Adult
How to Help a Choking Adult Who Stops Responding

Definitions and Choking is when food or another object gets stuck in the airway in the throat.
Key Facts The object stops air from getting to the lungs.

Some choking is mild and some is severe. If it's severe, act fast. Get the object
out so the person can breathe.

Mild v S vere Chokmg

Use the following table to figure out if someone has mild or severe choking and what you should do:

If someone The block in the I;
airway is
• Can make sounds And you should
• Can cough loudly Mild
• Stand by and let her
cough

• If worried about her
breathing, phone your
emergency response
number (or 911)

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