From providing potentially life-saving care during a cardiac arrest to helping a person who's choking or overdosing on opioids, the American Heart Association's CPR guidelines are meant to help everyday people respond in an emergency.

This week, the American Heart Association released updated guidelines for CPR.

Dr. Ashish Panchal with Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center is one of the writers of the updated guidance, which begin with new guidelines for choking in conscious children and adults.

It’s recommended that the patient receive alternating five back blows, followed by five abdominal thrusts until the object is expelled or the person becomes unresponsive.

“With infants, we do five back blows and five chest thrusts with the heel of your arm to relieve that foreign body, an

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