The Mayo Clinic recommends taking your fist in your hand and shoving it into your navel using a hard surface like a countertop or chair. Repeatedly shove into the navel to force air out of the lungs.

In a heart-pounding moment at a North Carolina school, a 9-year-old boy performed the Heimlich maneuver on his classmate, ...

Natalie May, a student at East Kentwood High School, saved a man’s life through the technique while working as a waitress at Brann’s Steakhouse and Grille in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Cafeteria aide Peggy Marchand used the Heimlich maneuver to save a student who was choking on an orange at Maplewood ...

“We were playing basketball and he ate a granola bar and we started playing longer until he started choking ... first, I wasn’t understanding that he had to be given the Heimlic maneuver ...

“And he was trying to say, ‘Hold on,’ but he couldn’t because he was choking. I didn’t know he was actually, actually choking so I just did my thing, which was a Heimlich,” Jayceon sai ...

“And he was trying to say, ‘Hold on,’ but he couldn’t because he was choking. I didn’t know he was actually, actually choking so I just did my thing, which was a Heimlich,” Jayceon ... said he ...