Bugün öğrendim ki: Dr. Heimlich, Heimlich Manevrası'na daha iyi bir alternatif olan "5 arkadan tokat" verme uygulaması yüzünden 20 yıl boyunca Kızıl Haç'a karşı savaştı.

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In 1974, Dr. Henry Heimlich was a successful thoracic surgeon in his mid-fifties. He had been one of the first doctors to perform an operation that fixed damaged esophagi, and became head of surgery at Cincinnati's Jewish Hospital. Heimlich wanted to do more though. Looking for a simple method that would save the lives of people who were choking, he and his team started experimenting with beagles. He realized that when he pushed upward on the dog's diaphragm, compressing its lungs, a tube in the dog's throat became dislodged, allowing it to breathe normally again. Because he knew a peer-reviewed study in an established medical journal would [take too long to get published](http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/blogs/daily-dose/2014/02/07/heimlich -final-maneuver-detailing-his-controversial- life/a2Dke0gDf7aHrntGPD7aTO/blog.html ), Heimlich got creative and crowd- sourced his research. For the June 1974 issue of the journal _Emergency Medicine_ , he wrote an article called “[Pop Goes The Café Coronary](https://groups.google.com/forum/