The Palm Beach Police's use of donated LifeVac anti-choking devices follows the FDA's recent approval of them as backup devices.

LifeVac is approved for use as a single-use, non-powered, non-invasive airway clearance device.

Two new devices are currently on the market to save someone from choking when standard treatments — like the abdominal thrust manuever Henry Heimlich developed in 1974 — don’t work, according to The ...

LifeVac LLC announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted De Novo classification for LifeVac under 21 CFR 874.5400, formally establishing the device type "suction ...