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...McGaw Hospital, 23 blocks away, and the trauma team went to work. Research shows that if basic life support is used on serious trauma victims within four minutes and advanced life support within eight, nearly 50% of them survive. McGaw beat the averages. The first child was in cardiac arrest, and two more died on the operating table. But five others with severe head, chest and abdominal injuries survived. "It could have been my child," murmured one doctor, whose boy was only slightly injured in the accident. "My son could have been sitting next to the children who got killed...
...just close their doors to poor people," says Virginia Price-Hastings, director of Los Angeles' trauma hospital programs. "When they're closed, they're closed to everyone." Furthermore, if hospital beds are filled with emergency patients, doctors cannot schedule elective surgeries like breast biopsies, gallbladder removals and cardiac bypasses. Delay a bypass too long, and it can turn into a heart attack -- which brings the patient back to the crowded emergency room...
After Gathers' first collapse, he underwent a series of tests that revealed a cardiac arrhythmia -- an irregular heartbeat that can indicate anything from normal palpitations to a life-threatening condition. Gathers was ordered to report for weekly testing and treated with Inderal, one of a class of drugs called beta blockers. These inhibit the effects of adrenaline and smooth out the rhythms of the heart. Side effects include fatigue and sluggishness...
According to the suit, Jenks told her patient, who had undergone more than 50 operations, "You cannot be at the mercy of your body any longer." In 1986 she allegedly advised Isaacson to take an overdose of cardiac medicines, which resulted in a coma. The next year Jenks allegedly emptied 29 Seconal capsules into a container of yogurt and spoon-fed her patient with the lethal mixture. At the last spoonful, Isaacson balked and decided she wanted to live. Jenks was able to induce vomiting, and Isaacson was saved. Later, Isaacson claims, Jenks persuaded her to take an overdose...
...Crimson once again became the "Cardiac Kids" and started the kind of comeback which has pulled out so many wins for the squad this year...