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Think about it; a child is choking, you grab the child by the ankles and spin them as hard as you can. Worst case, it doesn't work. Best case, you paint the restaurant walls like some kind of modern day Jackson Pollock. Has this been studied?

Think about it; a child is choking, you grab the child by the ankles and spin them as hard as you can. Worst case, it doesn't work. Best case, you paint the restaurant walls like some kind of modern day Jackson Pollock. Has this been studied?

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[–] • 5 pts

Before you could reach that level, the child's brain will already suffer from microlesions derived from spinning their brain inside their cranial cavity

[–] • 0 pt

Thank you. I figured the Gs necessary would harm something long before they dislodged the food.

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

it would work if you could spin the kid fast enough, which you would not be able to.

[–] • 2 pts

I was thinking a small amount of force as well as the childs physical reaction to spinning. Everytime ive ever spun a child by their ankles they naturally scream or exhale/grunt forcefully. Maybe the combination would free the blockage.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

You would probably kill the kid, due to blunt force trauma, when you tried your theory out.

[–] • 1 pt

You just need to tie a rope around their ankles to generate more centrifugal force.

[–] • 1 pt

What a waste of food. Instead you should spin him by his ears that way it forces it down into his stomach

[–] • 1 pt

With enough energy anything is possible

ANYTHING

[–] • 1 pt

Nah you just shake em up and down upside-down very vigorously.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Yes.

It will also stop that annoying crying.

[–] • 0 pt

There's no force; it's just inertia. I can also think of worse cases than it just doesn't work.

[–] • 0 pt

You need a pressure gradient. So maybe if you spin and squeeze.

[–] • 0 pt

F=ma

[–] • 2 pts

F = mv2/r

centripetal force...

[–] • 0 pt

Im terrible at math but im coming up with .05N

[–] • 0 pt

The a and m would be so low I can't imagine this working if it's really lodged.

[–] • 0 pt

Simply holding the vic upside down and still generates 1g forcing the obstruction away from the airway. That most first aid manuals mention alternative treatments suggests that this force is insufficient to reliable alleviate a choke. Studies on fighter pilots suggest that 2-3gs forces a life-threatening amount of blood pressure to the head unless relieved within a few seconds. G-forces in other directions are much safer, unless for some reason you need to be conscious or in control of your extremities, so if you want to kill someone on a centrifuge, remember to strap him in head outward.

I'm not going to bother working out how much force is required to dislodge a grape from a trachea, but this proposal has an uncomfortably thin therapeutic margin.

[–] • 0 pt

Hypothetically? Or are you looking for an answer now?

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