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...CPR In case of a heart attack, standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) procedure calls for alternating mouth-to-mouth resuscitation with carefully counted chest compressions. A study of emergency medical technicians demonstrated, however, that chest compressions alone may be enough. Survival rates of heart-attack victims were the same whether they were given CPR or chest compressions alone...
...CPR In case of a heart attack, standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) procedure calls for alternating mouth-to-mouth resuscitation with carefully counted chest compressions. A study of emergency medical technicians demonstrated, however, that chest compressions alone may be enough. Survival rates of heart-attack victims were the same whether they were given CPR or chest compressions alone...
...someone knocked at the back door hungry and penniless, she couldn't say no. To the very end, that was Diane. "We were at home that night, and she had trouble breathing," Harry says, eyes glistening. "She started coughing, and next thing, she was unconscious." Chad performed CPR on his mother, 58, who had no history of serious illness. Harry called 911 and kept pleading with his wife, who was having a heart attack. "You just can't leave me like this!" They were close to retirement, the house nearly paid for, the boys self-sufficient. Harry had this saying...
EXERCISE CAUTION Here's something worth working up a sweat over. If you collapse while exercising at your health club, chances are the facility won't be equipped to help. According to preliminary data, half the clubs studied have neither an emergency medical plan in place, personnel trained in CPR nor a working defibrillator. Among those that do, 90% fail to perform regular emergency drills. And one-third of clubs don't bother to screen prospective clients for medical conditions that could make unsupervised workouts risky...
Education of any sort is supposed to make a student question the world and her place in it. But when I registered for the CPR class I thought of it as more like P.E. than Philosophy 101. And while it's true I will be sore the next morning from bending over Little Anne and pounding on her chest, I return from lunch for the afternoon defibrillator session with the kind of metaphysical panic I remember from the Nietzsche unit in freshman year...