Word: chest
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...retired landscape gardener Robert McKinney, 76, sat shaky and pale in a room full of firemen. As paramedics attached red EKG clips to his chest, McKinney explained in a raspy voice that he had got out of bed at 1 a.m. -- 19 hours earlier -- and had been struggling to breathe ever since. His blood pressure was an alarming 200 over 140 (120 over 80 is normal). Such severe hypertension can impair lung function and lead to congestive heart failure. McKinney's EKG showed an irregular, rapid heartbeat...
...group of friends ventured into the tightly knit, mostly Italian Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn to inspect a used car. They were set upon by a gang of whites armed with baseball bats and a gun. When the melee was over, Hawkins lay dead with two bullet wounds in his chest...
...deliver babies; we do it all," explains Peter Moyer, chief of emergency medicine at Boston City Hospital. "I think of us as the urban GP." Tonight Moyer's trauma team is summoned to save a man who has overdosed on heroin. They cut his clothes away, thump on his chest and connect an IV tube, all the while talking to him, trying to keep him awake. "Do you want to die?" resident Stuart Kessler yells at the man, who is feebly pushing the doctors away. The man shakes his head. "Good," says Kessler. "I don't want...
...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...
...volume grows, there are bound to be errors: in 1988, for example, the New York State health department reported that poor patient care was at least partly responsible for twelve deaths that year at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx. In one case, a 30-year-old woman with chest pains died after waiting 5 1/2 hours for a chest X ray; she was never given oxygen or an EKG. At Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, an 18-year-old woman who needed a tracheotomy had her throat inadvertently slit and both jugular veins cut by the hospital...