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The March 22, 1980 New York Times published a letter to the editor by Henry J. Heimlich in which he criticized the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Heimlich stated that the NAS "refused to meet to consider evaluating the (Heimlich maneuver)" and that "crucial scientific material" was withheld by Dr. Philip Handler, then-chairman of the NAS. Heimlich also stated that "Professor Edward A. Patrick, M.D., of Purdue University, an invited participant in the Academy's 1976 meeting on choking, has called for a Congressional investigation of the Academy's procedures."
That same month, the March/April 1980 issue of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) magazine printed a 27-page cover story which included a group of articles by 12 individuals. Authors included medical professionals such as Drs. Peter Safar, Eugene Nagel, Kevin McIntyre and others, several EMTs, Heimlich, Patrick, and two non-medical people. The articles was a forum to discuss a previous EMS article by Heimlich, entitled "Back Blows Are Death Blows."
The series also included a brief item signed "K.W. Mansoor, Cincinnati, Ohio." Mansoor claims her mother died "due to a choking incident." According to the article, after her mother's death, Mansoor "researched the medical literature on choking." She then wrote letters to officials at the American Red Cross and the NAS criticizing current rescue methods taught by the Red Cross, specifically backslaps rather than the Heimlich maneuver. Mansoor said that the activities of the ARC and NAS amounted to a medical "Watergate." Mansoor's item included an addendum by Dr. Henry Heimlich which echoes these sentiments.
A year earlier, a similar letter from Mansoor, challenging the use of back blows in favor of the Heimlich maneuver, was published in Emergency magazine's September 1979 issue.
What neither Mansoor nor Heimlich divulged was "K.W. Mansoor" was Katherine Wyllie Mansoor, Dr. Heimlich's personal secretary.
In his July 1982 article in the journal Pediatrics, "First Aid for Choking Children: Back Blows and Chest Thrusts Cause Complications and Death," Heimlich cited Mansoor's September 1979 letter to Emergency but neglected to mention that she was his secretary. (Pediatrics was the same peer-reviewed journal that published the 1982 Richard Day et al. "anti-backblows" study, which Heimlich clandestinely funded.)
### A few months later, the July 1980 issue of Emergency magazine included an article by Edward A. Patrick, entitled, "Choking, A Questionnaire to Find the Most Effective Treatment." Patrick, who was identified as a "professor and director of the Medical Computing Laboratory at Purdue University," discussed his analysis of over 1,300 choking cases, collected since the mid-1970s. The article included a questionnaire "for reporting choking cases" to be filled-out by EMTs and mailed back to Patrick at Purdue.
In the acknowledgments at the end of this 1980 article, Patrick wrote:
Assistance in this research was provided by Katherine Mansoor.
Finally, as Heimlich's 1980 New York Times letter stated, Patrick did indeed call for a Congressional investigation of the NAS. In an August 1, 1979 mailgram-press release to Philip Handler, then president of the Academy, Patrick accused the NAS of engaging in a "cover-up" of scientific evidence. The contact person listed on the mailgram is Katherine Mansoor.
### A January 8, 2007 blog post, signed by Katherine Wyllie Mansoor, now says her mother's alleged choking also resulted in a heart attack:
In my mother’s case, the piece of meat was still in her mouth and she suffered a heart attack subsequent to choking; she also sustained brain damage and was in a coma due to lack of oxygen caused by choking.
Mansoor is now employed at Fuji Joshi Women`s University in Hanakawa, Japan. Interested parties may wish to request from Mansoor a release for her mother's hospital records and/or a copy of her death certificate.
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