1. Lifeguard Training

UPDATE: Via, February 3, 2016: One of the nation’s largest lifeguard certification agencies has stopped teaching a controversial drowning rescue technique that. The National Aquatic Safety Co. Has long championed the Heimlich maneuver as an effective way to remove water from the lungs before initiating CPR on a drowning victim. Developed in the mid ’90s by NASCO founder John Hunsucker, the drowning-rescue version of the Heimlich called for the lifeguard to first administer abdominal thrusts on a drowning victim in the water before extrication for CPR. As aquatic and medical professionals called the practice into question, claiming that it was ineffective and that it could further endanger those in need of rescue. Despite the criticism and the headlines in the mainstream media, NASCO stuck to its guns, even after the.Another development may have forced the decision: In recent years, health departments in, and, threatened to strip NASCO of its certification to to do business in those states unless it stopped teaching the Heimlich as part of its drowning rescue protocol, according to local media reports.

“Presumably, NASCO finally dumped the protocol because it was affecting their bottom line,” said Peter Heimlich, son of inventor Dr. Henry Heimlich, and the most outspoken critic of using the maneuver to address drowning, in a statement to AI. Hunsucker declined to comment for this article.As for (Peter) Heimlich and his wife, Karen, this is chapter they’re relieved to see closed. It’s believed NASCO was the last such agency to perform what many considered an ill-advised rescue maneuver.

Sym quadlander 300s service manual. “I doubt there is another company reckless enough to take it up,” he stated, “so this likely ends my father’s bizarre 40-year campaign to promote the treatment.” My original item is below the hash marks. Today via by staff reporter Craig Malisow, Houston Press: For years, the Dickinson-based NASCO Aquatics, one of the nation's largest lifeguard certification companies taught a technique, even as other professional and medical organizations said it could further endanger drowning victims. But NASCO has dropped the technique — a version of the Heimlich maneuver done while a drowning victim is still in the water — from its most recent training manual, which pleases one of NASCO's biggest, Peter Heimlich, whose father gave the abdominal-thrusting technique its name. NASCO founder John Hunsucker swore by the technique, even as the American Red Cross, American Heart Association, the United States Lifeguard Coalition, and the International Life Saving Federation. Most medical and aquatic experts have stated that applying the Heimlich maneuver to a drowning victim delays CPR and could cause a victim to Until just recently, Hunsucker's response to the experts has been short and sweet: 'Screw 'em.'

.Peter Heimlich shared an email of his own, telling us: 'I'm relieved that NASCO has finally pulled the plug on its reckless 'Heimlich for drowning' protocol. Experts have said that for decades NASCO was conducting what amounted to an unsupervised medical experiment using unsuspecting swimmers at their client water parks.

Long after prominent medical experts and leading first aid organizations had thoroughly dismissed the treatment as useless and potentially lethal, NASCO persisted. Even after my father's Heimlich Institute stopped advocating the treatment, NASCO wouldn't stop. On the bright side, NASCO was the last holdout, so this effectively marks the end of my father's bizarre 40-year campaign to promote the treatment.' For 'These so-called medical experts. Screw 'em,' my compilation of media reports about NASCO's now-defunct 'Heimlich protocol.' This medical madness began in August 1974 when my father and his crony, the late Victor H.

Esch MD, began hyping the first of a series of fraudulent case reports in which they claimed near-dead drowning victims were miraculously revived by the Heimlich maneuver. (See and.) The result of their folly? Dozens of poor outcome cases -. To these journalists, physicians, water safety professionals, and public employees whose efforts helped put an end to this dark chapter in first aid history - Lifesaving Aye Margarita Abramova, Paul Auerbach MD, Ihsan A.

Azzam, PhD MD MPH, Robert S. Baratz MD PhD, Chris Brewster, Zach Brown, Ed Castillo, Peter Chambers DO, Rich Connelly, Bennett Cunningham, Margaret Downing, Gerry Dworkin, Roy Fielding, Brenda Flanagan, Shawn Foucher, Tom Francis, Mike Giglio, Natalie Gagliordi, Tracey D. For a detailed bio and contact info,. In Spring 2002, my wife Karen and I began researching the career of my father, Henry J. Heimlich MD, famous for 'the Heimlich maneuver.' To our astonishment, we uncovered a remarkable unseen history of fraud.

Lifeguard Training

Since Spring 2003, our research into my dad's career and other subjects has been the basis for. Via my blog, since 2010 I've done original document-based reporting, mostly about fraud and/or ethical misconduct. (A reporter at a New Jersey newspaper called me ) Newsworthy tips are always welcome. E-mails marked 'confidential' will be treated with the utmost discretion. Broken links, missing videos, or other errors?.

As you keep in mind the legal considerations explained in this chapter, read the following scenario and answer the related questions: A female patron slips and falls on the deck. She hits her head, and it is lightly bleeding. You ask for consent, but the patron refuses. She says she will get dressed and go home.

What should you do? A few minutes after the patron enters the locker room, another patron comes out and says the woman is now unconscious in the locker room. Should you help the patron now? Why or why not?