• Ask: Can you breathe? If the victim does not feel choking: • Ask the victim to cough. If the victim feels suffocated: Start performing abdominal thrusts • Wrap your arms around the victim's waist. Make a fist with your hand. Press your thumb-side fist into the victim's area just above the navel and below the end of the victim's chest. • Cover your fist with the palm of your other hand. • Make a series of 4-5 sharp thrusts into the stomach from bottom to top, from front to inside. • Each push is made in an attempt to remove the foreign object. Continue the abdominal thrusts until Bye: • The foreign body will not be removed. • The victim will not breathe or cough heavily. • The victim loses consciousness: in this case, place the victim on the floor on his back (see first aid for conscious victims) and call an ambulance.