Word: chests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Squeeze the Heart. But doctors still wanted something more automatic and reliable. Working with engineers of Massachusetts' Brunswick Manufacturing Co., they devised the Thumper, which is basically a small (1½ in. by 3 in.) pneumatic plunger strapped to the chest (see cut). Powered entirely by compressed oxygen (small tanks in portable units, bigger ones in hospitals), the HLR supplies a puff of oxygen twelve times a minute through a face mask, while the plunger, which replaces the rescuer's hands, bounces up and down on the victim's breastbone 60 times a minute. On the downstroke...
Ideally, the victim of sudden heart arrest should get immediate mouth-to-mouth breathing by one rescuer and simultaneous chest massage by another, until the Thumper arrives, to do both jobs precisely and tirelessly all the way to a hospital. Within hospitals themselves, HLRs are expected to be useful in emergency rooms and intensive-care units, where seriously ill patients are especially subject to heart stoppage...
...Superman.") Quarterback Ryan was a little nervous about calling the next play-a tricky "hook-post" pass to Flanker Gary Collins behind the goal posts. On the same play five times this season he had bounced the ball off the crossbar. This time he hit Collins on the chest and heaved a sigh of relief. "Whew!" said Ryan later. "For a while I thought for sure that...
...Senate majority leader, Johnson's "treatment" became famous. In cloak room and corridor, in his baronial office or right out on the floor of the chamber, he would go to work on a colleague -squeezing his elbow, draping a huge paw over his shoulder, poking him in the chest, leaning so close as to be practically rubbing noses. On the phone (and he was seldom off it) he was equally effective. Hubert Humphrey once complained that the only way he could resist Johnson's hypnotic persuasiveness was by not answering the phone...
...skin grafts. For men who have undergone castration because of cancer, there are artificial testicles of the same or a similar material. Artificial breasts are now made of a soft silicone-rubber sack that holds a silicone gel, and they have a backing of Dacron for attachment to the chest wall...