text: Surprising in this day and age that nobody recognized what was happening and what to do about it.  Everyone who takes CPR training learns the Heimlich maneuver as part of it, and it surely would've worked on a chunk of doughnut.  
  
  Probably not everyone knows choking's "universal sign of distress" -- both hands to the throat.  Doesn't sound like Malouff did.  These avoidable deaths are unfortunate.