While eating in a restaurant,a nurse notices that a customer at the next table begins to clutch his throat while eating a steak.What should the nurse do first?
A) Ask the customer if he is choking.
B) Attempt to give five back blows.
C) Perform the Heimlich maneuver.
D) Start chest compressions.
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