{"id":76,"date":"2024-02-08T16:03:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T16:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/adult-slt\/?page_id=76"},"modified":"2026-01-29T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:39:00","slug":"choking-complete-obstruction-of-the-airway-which-required-back-slaps-heimlich-manoeuvre","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/slt-care-homes\/guidance\/choking-complete-obstruction-of-the-airway-which-required-back-slaps-heimlich-manoeuvre\/","title":{"rendered":"Choking (complete obstruction of the airway which required back slaps\/Heimlich manoeuvre)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was this a one-off incident? If yes, monitor oral intake closely, provide close supervision.<\/p>\n<p>Ensure the advice in the Eating and drinking strategies leaflet is followed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nhsuk-action-link\"><a class=\"nhsuk-action-link__link\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/leaflets\/title\/adult-speech-and-language-therapy-eating-and-drinking-strategies\/\" target=\"self\"><span class=\"nhsuk-action-link__text\">Eating and drinking strategies<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>If there are further choking incidents avoid or adapt specific food item that caused choking episode and refer to Speech and Language Therapy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ohft-box red\">\n<p>When completing a referral ensure you have documented the changes you have actioned prior to referral on the <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2024\/07\/Managing-Dysphagia-Checklist.docx\">Managing dysphagia checklist<\/a> and attached this to the referral. Referrals without this checklist will not be accepted at triage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was this a one-off incident? If yes, monitor oral intake closely, provide close supervision. Ensure the advice in the Eating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-76","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/slt-care-homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/slt-care-homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/slt-care-homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/slt-care-homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/slt-care-homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/slt-care-homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/slt-care-homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions\/245"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/slt-care-homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/slt-care-homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}