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Withholding the Heimlich Maneuver: Ethical Considerations.
J Clin Ethics
September 2021
Clinical Ethicist at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine, and is Adjunct Faculty at Saint Joseph's College of Maine in Standish, Maine USA.
The topic of withholding the Heimlich maneuver as part of a do-not-attempt-to-resuscitate (DNAR) order or an advance directive has not been widely discussed in the clinical ethics literature. This discussion addresses a request by family members to withhold the Heimlich maneuver from a patient in a long-term care facility. A request to forgo the Heimlich maneuver seems to have prima facie categorical similarities to justifications for withholding life-saving treatments such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
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