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- Stand or kneel behind the person and wrap your arms around his or her waist.
- Locate the navel with one or two fingers of one hand. Make a fist with the other hand and place the thumb side against the middle of the person’s abdomen, just above the navel and well below the lower tip of the breastbone.
- Grab your fist with your other hand and give quick, upward thrusts into the abdomen.
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