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...matter of minutes,” O’Brien said. By coincidence, O’Brien had completed a Basic Life Support training course two weeks earlier and received the certificate that morning. He put his skills to work. “This underscores the value of CPR training because the first person on the scene was able to immediately begin administering it,” O’Brien said. Next was HUPD officer James P. Melia, dispatched to the scene after a report of a “man down,” according to the police...
...frontiers of heart research was mixed. Researchers discovered two genes that appear to contribute to early heart attacks, in part by causing blood to clot abnormally. A small emergency-room study found that drugs used to break up clots may help revive cardiac-arrest patients when such methods as CPR and electrical shock have failed. There were murkier findings regarding people with high levels of homocysteine, an amino acid linked to heart disease. Folic acid and B vitamins help bring homocysteine down, but one study cast doubt on whether this actually improves heart health...
...very tolerant man. His most stirring performance took place in 1988, when his son Matthew, then 2, fell into the family's pool. (Smith was an assistant at Arizona State.) Though afraid of water, Smith jumped in and pulled a tiny blue body from the bottom. MaryAnne's CPR resuscitated the boy. Matthew, now a student at Northwestern, had all but drowned. "I was no hero," Smith says. "I let my guard down. Luckily, we were able to make a wrong right...
...open to the most complicated-looking page you can find. Finally, you remove your two favorite posters from the wall, including the one that depicts a keg and reads, “Alcohol: My Anti-Drug,” and the other one that displays a young lady performing CPR on another young lady...
When an ambulance arrived, the medical staff also tried to revive Ekperi, giving her oxygen, CPR, and medication. But they could not rescue her, Jean Baptiste said...