# Heimlich Maneuver

Skill · Healthcare and Medical

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/heimlich-maneuver

The Heimlich maneuver is a first-aid technique used to dislodge an object obstructing a person's airway during choking, performed by applying sharp upward abdominal thrusts below the ribcage. It is taught in CPR and first-aid certification courses and is a critical emergency skill for parents, teachers, restaurant workers, healthcare providers, and lifeguards.

Related skills: [First Aid](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/first-aid)

## Open roles requiring Heimlich Maneuver (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.