WASHINGTON — The American Heart Association updated their CPR guidelines Wednesday for the first time since 2020.

The new guidelines include how to handle choking in adults, children and babies, and when to treat suspected opioid overdoses.

The main changes include choking guidance alternate between five back blows and five chest thrusts for choking infants and alternate between five back blows and five abdomen thrusts, also known as the Heimlich maneuver, for children and adults.

Infants are given chest thrusts opposed to the abdomen thrusts due to the risk of injury.

A person doing the maneuvers should continue until "the foreign object is expelled or the infant becomes unresponsive," according to the updated guidance.

Previous choking guidance didn't include adults.

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