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Fifteen regular leaders, most of whom are Harvard students, work with the program. Many also participate as leaders in the Freshman Outdoor 'Program--FOP--and are thus trained in CPR and First Aid, according to co-director Michael D. Samols '86. On every trip, says Samols, there is one leader who is trained in both--and he says that next year each will probably be required to undergo training. Because of this, and because parents must sign a permission form, the group can undertake a wide variety of activities...
...oxygen mask, the number of electric shocks administered, the exact position of doctors around the table and what they talked about (in one case, golf). These memories, Sabom found, conformed precisely with doctors' accounts. Was it possible that some chronic cardiac patients were simply familiar enough with CPR procedures (from experience and television) to fantasize accurately about what took place? Sabom put this to the test by asking longtime heart patients who had not had NDEs to describe such procedures. Twenty out of 23 made major errors in their accounts...
...massage. Keeping a list of emergency phone numbers and knowing what hospitals are best equipped to treat coronary cases can save valuable time and perhaps a family member's life. Because every second counts, more and more Americans are learning the life-and-death skills of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR...
...station they received a call on the radio. It was a man with heart trouble, and it was no act this time. The man was in bad shape when Rescue arrived, and he started to go completely on the truck. They began to furiously apply cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and managed to keep him going until they reached Mt. Auburn Hospital. Bob maintained the rhythmic pumping of the man's chest all the way into the trauma room, where an emergency team waited with equipment to try and shock the heart back into its normal pattern...
When Bob came out of the room he was dripping with sweat. He said that it was cases like this that illustrate the necessity of a unit like the Rescue Co. A regular ambulance crew has only two people and cannot properly perform CPR on the way to the hospital...