"If you are choking and are alone, try to get yourself into a high-traffic area, such as a hallway in a building or outside your house. If you pass out, you're way more likely to be found as opposed to being in a room in a building or your house. Call 911 even though you can't speak. Someone will be sent to your location by dispatch."
"It's way too common to find people choked to death on toilet stalls at restaurants. By instinct, they don't want to disturb others and seek a place where they try to get whatever is stuck in their throat out. Please, if you are choking, try to get help, and let everyone know that you are in trouble. 'Oh, I don't want to embarrass myself and ruin people's night, so I'll just die in the toilet' is a wrong mindset in that situation."
"Paramedic here: 1) Learn to recognize signs and symptoms of a stroke. The 'F.A.S.T' acronym is what we use in the EMS world. 2) Learn how to do effective CPR. Immediate bystander CPR and early 911 activation play a MAJOR role in good patient outcomes in cardiac arrest. If you don't do good CPR, there won't be very much brain/heart to save by the time we get there."
If choking and alone, move to a high-traffic area so a passerby can find you if you pass out, and call 911 even if you cannot speak. Do not seek seclusion in bathroom stalls due to embarrassment; that choice can be fatal. Learn to recognize stroke signs using the F.A.S.T. acronym. Learn effective CPR and perform immediate bystander CPR; early 911 activation significantly improves cardiac arrest outcomes. Poor-quality CPR greatly reduces the chance of preserving brain and heart function. In any emergency, mentally label the situation as not your emergency, step back, assess objectively, and avoid risky, impulsive rescues.
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