Peter M. Heimlich
@medfraud.bsky.social
"Investigative blogger" per https://tinyurl.com/3ybmb47j Wife: "Like erosion." Bumpkins blocked. Kick me & I kick back. Bio/contact http://tinyurl.com/ych7o7dr
2/ What happened?
According to Amazon (and other sources), the FDA now requires that, in order to be marketed legally, such devices must be registered as Class III, the agency's highest, most demanding classification.
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According to Amazon (and other sources), the FDA now requires that, in order to be marketed legally, such devices must be registered as Class III, the agency's highest, most demanding classification.
sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/ref...
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
2/ What happened?
According to Amazon (and other sources), the FDA now requires that, in order to be marketed legally, such devices must be registered as Class III, the agency's highest, most demanding classification.
sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/ref...
According to Amazon (and other sources), the FDA now requires that, in order to be marketed legally, such devices must be registered as Class III, the agency's highest, most demanding classification.
sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/ref...
13/ This week's update brings the AHA's recommendations into line with the American Red Cross (which in 2005 made back blows the first treatment) and the vast majority of the world's first aid organizations. www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
October 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
13/ This week's update brings the AHA's recommendations into line with the American Red Cross (which in 2005 made back blows the first treatment) and the vast majority of the world's first aid organizations. www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
12/ Until this week, here's what the AHA recommended. www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
October 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
12/ Until this week, here's what the AHA recommended. www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
11/ Roger White MD (of the Mayo Clinic) chaired the 1985 committee that recommended deleting back blows from AHA choking rescue guidelines.
From a 2007 long form history of "the Heimlich" by journalist Pamela Mills-Senn published in @cincymag.cincinnatimagazine.com shrturl.app/Vh8P6Z
From a 2007 long form history of "the Heimlich" by journalist Pamela Mills-Senn published in @cincymag.cincinnatimagazine.com shrturl.app/Vh8P6Z
October 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
11/ Roger White MD (of the Mayo Clinic) chaired the 1985 committee that recommended deleting back blows from AHA choking rescue guidelines.
From a 2007 long form history of "the Heimlich" by journalist Pamela Mills-Senn published in @cincymag.cincinnatimagazine.com shrturl.app/Vh8P6Z
From a 2007 long form history of "the Heimlich" by journalist Pamela Mills-Senn published in @cincymag.cincinnatimagazine.com shrturl.app/Vh8P6Z
10/ From a 2007 syndicated column by Lenore Skenazy. archive.ph/CLbWt
October 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
10/ From a 2007 syndicated column by Lenore Skenazy. archive.ph/CLbWt
4/ He provided no supporting data because the claim was entirely fabricated. That didn't stop the mainstream press from giving him (and gullible writers like Jean Carper) countless opportunities to claim the AHA and the American Red Cross were putting lives at risk. archive.ph/PCfyk
October 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
4/ He provided no supporting data because the claim was entirely fabricated. That didn't stop the mainstream press from giving him (and gullible writers like Jean Carper) countless opportunities to claim the AHA and the American Red Cross were putting lives at risk. archive.ph/PCfyk
3/ Using his considerable charm and media access, based on zero evidence my father claimed back blows were not only ineffective but potentially deadly, causing food to become lodged in the airway. www.mediafire.com/file/zuvnddx...
October 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
3/ Using his considerable charm and media access, based on zero evidence my father claimed back blows were not only ineffective but potentially deadly, causing food to become lodged in the airway. www.mediafire.com/file/zuvnddx...
2/ Not long after introducing his namesake maneuver (aka abdominal thrust), my father used a 1975 Cincinnati Enquirer profile to launch a bizarre & duplicitous ten-year campaign to eliminate back blows from first aid protocols. www.mediafire.com/file/bbah5vu...
October 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
2/ Not long after introducing his namesake maneuver (aka abdominal thrust), my father used a 1975 Cincinnati Enquirer profile to launch a bizarre & duplicitous ten-year campaign to eliminate back blows from first aid protocols. www.mediafire.com/file/bbah5vu...
2/ From yesterday's updated guidelines of the European Resuscitation Council, the umbrella organization for most first aid organizations in Europe. www.resuscitationjournal.com/article/S030...
October 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
2/ From yesterday's updated guidelines of the European Resuscitation Council, the umbrella organization for most first aid organizations in Europe. www.resuscitationjournal.com/article/S030...
1/ For those interested in manual handheld suction plungers being marketed as "choking rescue devices," two leading medical organizations just issued their latest protocols.
Short version? Thumbs down.
Yesterday from the @americanheart.bsky.social www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
Short version? Thumbs down.
Yesterday from the @americanheart.bsky.social www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
October 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
1/ For those interested in manual handheld suction plungers being marketed as "choking rescue devices," two leading medical organizations just issued their latest protocols.
Short version? Thumbs down.
Yesterday from the @americanheart.bsky.social www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
Short version? Thumbs down.
Yesterday from the @americanheart.bsky.social www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
Emily Litella: "What's all this fuss I keep hearing about Barry White being hired to run CBS News?"
October 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Emily Litella: "What's all this fuss I keep hearing about Barry White being hired to run CBS News?"
How it was. Back when there were phone books, my dad made the cover of Cincinnati Bell's 1988-89 edition (top left).
September 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
How it was. Back when there were phone books, my dad made the cover of Cincinnati Bell's 1988-89 edition (top left).
I just spotted this lively September 2024 Inventor's Digest article about my infamous father & my efforts that exposed him as a con man & a dangerous quack. share.google/RYecozMZnoNw...
Lifetime gratitude to my wife and to the medical professionals & journalists who made it happen! medfraud.info
Lifetime gratitude to my wife and to the medical professionals & journalists who made it happen! medfraud.info
September 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I just spotted this lively September 2024 Inventor's Digest article about my infamous father & my efforts that exposed him as a con man & a dangerous quack. share.google/RYecozMZnoNw...
Lifetime gratitude to my wife and to the medical professionals & journalists who made it happen! medfraud.info
Lifetime gratitude to my wife and to the medical professionals & journalists who made it happen! medfraud.info
AP photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson. Source: apnews.com/article/trum...
September 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
AP photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson. Source: apnews.com/article/trum...
Updated. www.the-sidebar.com/2024/09/posi...
September 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Updated. www.the-sidebar.com/2024/09/posi...
Repeat after me: "I have always loved and will always love [insert name here]."
September 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Repeat after me: "I have always loved and will always love [insert name here]."
September 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
If you're an investigative, medical, or consumer protection reporter - or just someone interested in Amazon's reckless marketing practices - you owe it to yourself to pore over the scores of listings for handheld suction plungers being sold as "choking rescue devices." www.amazon.com/s?k=choking+...
September 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
If you're an investigative, medical, or consumer protection reporter - or just someone interested in Amazon's reckless marketing practices - you owe it to yourself to pore over the scores of listings for handheld suction plungers being sold as "choking rescue devices." www.amazon.com/s?k=choking+...
September 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
September 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Latest entry in the cavalcade of handheld suction plungers being marketed as choking rescue devices, the Prepared Hero.
Personally? I'd choose the second option.
preparedhero.com/cdn/shop/fil...
Personally? I'd choose the second option.
preparedhero.com/cdn/shop/fil...
September 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Latest entry in the cavalcade of handheld suction plungers being marketed as choking rescue devices, the Prepared Hero.
Personally? I'd choose the second option.
preparedhero.com/cdn/shop/fil...
Personally? I'd choose the second option.
preparedhero.com/cdn/shop/fil...
