The Palm Beach Police's use of donated LifeVac anti-choking devices follows the FDA's recent approval of them as backup ...

LifeVac LLC announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted De Novo classification for LifeVac under 21 CFR 874.5400, formally establishing the device type "suction ...

LifeVac is approved for use as a single-use, non-powered, non-invasive airway clearance device.

LifeVac has picked up a groundbreaking clearance from the FDA for its suction-powered device designed to dislodge an object ...

Phil Heimlich, son of the inventor of the Heimlich maneuver, says the devices have not been shown to work in clinical trials and can cause danger to choking victims.

Choking is one of those emergencies that can turn deadly in a matter of seconds. Have you ever experienced a situation where your airways were blocked and you were ...

NEW YORK — It was the scariest choking incident David Palumbo had ever seen. The 88-year-old man had been dining at a Providence, Rhode Island, Italian restaurant in September 2019. Now he was ...

It was the scariest choking incident David Palumbo had ever seen. The 88-year-old man had been dining at a Providence, Rhode Island, Italian restaurant in September 2019. Now he was unconscious, with ...

Conventional anti-choking devices typically involve a multi-step process: exhausting air by pulling a piston rod, inserting an elastic tube into the patient's airway, and creating a negative pressure ...