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FISH STORY Just one serving of fish a week seems to cut in half the risk of sudden cardiac death. Researchers don't know if the fat or something else in seafood is the reason. But beware: other studies show that fat from fish may increase the risk of breast cancer...
...Ikea: "OR" Want to turn forbidding places into comfortable living spaces? Watch Ikea's men in white redo an operating room. The cardiac monitor looks just fabulous in the entertainment center. And that plant on the IV-drip stand is another deft designer touch...
More drugs might have helped Bobbi delay the inevitable, but, says Drake, "she'd had it." It was time to execute the plan that had been worked out over the previous two months. The delivery took place in a two-room surgical suite that normally serves cardiac patients. At 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Bobbi was partly anesthetized; 18 minutes later, the boy nicknamed Hercules (he'd been supporting the weight of all his siblings in the womb) was lifted out. "There was a lot of pressure," says anesthesiologist Dr. Dirk Brom, "but it all went like clockwork." Bobbi...
...offices to determine how many of them had a heart defibrillator on hand. The answer turned out to be not many. Of the 51 offices that responded, only six had bothered to purchase the $3,500 piece of equipment, and only three had a nurse on staff trained in cardiac life support. By contrast, Las Vegas casinos--rarely regarded as oases of good health--are increasingly making it a point to have defibrillators and medical teams on-site at all times...
...Airlines are putting defibrillators on planes," says Peberdy, "and one Las Vegas casino recently saved three people with cardiac arrest." For the medical community, better cardiac preparedness could come relatively cheap. Last year Peberdy saw to it that all five buildings at her medical school were provided with defibrillators and teams of nurses trained to use them. The cost: about a nickel per paying patient...