To help open the airway of a conscious adult with complete airway obstruction, what would you do?

a. Apply back blows, followed by chest thrusts.
b. Try to ventilate the victim at a high rate.
c. Decompress the stomach with epigastric pressure.
d. Apply repeated strong abdominal thrusts.

ANS: D
For adults and children, the procedure for health care providers for clearing a foreign body is the abdominal thrust.