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Not every restaurant has a defibrillator, but every restaurant may want one of these if it's really that effective.

And they should have it in the bathroom!

I've heard from an EMT friend that most choking deaths happen in restaurant bathrooms. Somebody gets up to excuse themselves to be polite and dies alone beside the dyson hand dryers.

I know if I were choking, I don't know how polite I would be to everyone around me

As a person with a medical condition that causes me to choke more often than a normal person would, I usually excuse myself because rectifying the situation typically involves vomiting.

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