Fred Bauder wrote:
On Jul 27, 2006, at 11:14 PM, zero 0000 wrote:
Sorry if this has been discussed before. I just noticed that [[Abdominal thrusts]] gives detailed advice on how to perform a medical procedure. Maybe there are other such articles too. Given the fashionable practice of filing suit whenever a medical procedure fails to work, it seems to me that this is rather dangerous for Wikipedia. Wouldn't it be legally safer (and more likely to be medically correct) if the actual procedure in such articles was presented as a direct quotation from a named medical authority? With permission, of course. Maybe there should also be a disclaimer.
Zero.
This is the Heimlich Manoeuvre and it would be very irresponsible not to have detailed advice.
As the article notes:
Some countries such as Australia have banned its use in favour of safer, more effective techniques.
It is entirely irresponsible to be promoting it *at all*.
The last sentence of the lede,
The thrust was later mastered by Dr. Earl Peters in the early 80's and became the universal way to stop a person from choking.
is also completely wrong and incredibly Americentric.