LifeVac: A New Innovation in Choking Interventions

This week, we want to share an amazing new invention that has already saved 500 individuals from choking incidents and can be used when common rescue methods fail.

In a recent interview with Mike Rowe, Arthur Lih shared that “traditional protocols” for choking, such as the Heimlich or CPR, only have a 50% success rate. He invented the LifeVac to help in unique choking situations, such as when someone is in a wheelchair, pregnant, or even alone. The LifeVac doesn’t require any training or certification and is lightweight and portable.

This demonstration video shows how to place the device over the choking person’s nose and mouth, push down on the plunger, and pull the handle back up to suck the obstruction out of the airway.

LifeVac offers kits for home, travel, rescue services, and schools. We are impressed with Mr. Lih’s innovation and we want to help spread the word and save more lives!

*Photo from company website

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December 14, 2022

Joan Vaughn

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Written by Joan Vaughn

I’m Joan, and I know home care from the inside out. I’ve navigated my daughter through 24/7 home care nursing and managed her PCA’s. I’ve helped my parents move into (and out of) assisted living, Medicare episodes, skilled nurse visits, home health aids, and PCAs. Sandwiched in all of that, I’ve helped coordinate home care equipment and supplies, physical therapists, occupational therapists, county workers, and medications (oh, the medications). I know emergency departments, children’s hospitals, cancer wards, cardiac floors, and specialty units. I can recite health insurance policies (and call their bluff). I know a lot of other things in life too, like Shakespeare, where to sit to see a great sunset over a lake, how to keep myself healthy, how to read a profit/loss statement and state statutes, when to use a comma, and that gratitude is one of the keys to success. So I’m going to have this blog and write about home care from time to time. I’ll include topics like current legislation, professional boundaries in a tricky environment, and being a caregiver. I’ll also post some guest blogs from clients and nurses. Join me in the conversation.

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