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...million children in 1993, down from 2.5 million a year just a decade ago. Polio crippled 140,000 children last year, down from 500,000 in 1980. --A simple medical device that looks like a plunger may be more effective than the traditional hand-pressing technique used in cpr to save heart-attack victims. The small suction pump compresses and expands the patient's chest more vigorously, reduces the risk of broken ribs and allows more blood to flow through the body...
...decade of watching ER hasn't taught you how to perform CPR, you can now learn from the American Heart Association's $30 at-home kit, which includes a CPR dummy...
...former British soldier, Chilton is trained in CPR and first aid for his job as a dive instructor, but there was little he could do for the victims. He and several of his friends tried to set up a triage, with the most likely to live treated first, but chaos and panic, as well as the severity of the wounds, threatened to overwhelm their efforts. It took a half hour for the first ambulance to arrive; in the meantime, Chilton other bystanders managed to flag down a few taxis to take wounded to the hospital...
...living will is not a panacea. "It's a piece of paper," says Brandt. "It can't get at all those gray areas that happen every day." It may specify that no "extraordinary measures" to prolong life be taken. But are those measures defined? Is CPR extraordinary? A feeding tube? A respirator? What's more, in an emergency, doctors are consumed with saving lives. In practice, written directives often don't come...
...idea for the perfect spot: their on-off home, the European Parliament complex in Strasbourg. Their motives are both altruistic and self-serving. Since the mid-90s, parliament has shuttled monthly between Brussels and Strasbourg - at a cost of €200 million a year. The Campaign for Parliamentary Reform (CPR) argues that money is wasted. The French disagree. "I've always voted to keep the seat here because it's an important European symbol," says M.E.P. Christine de Veyrac of France's center-right UMP Party. And the city itself invokes the 1997 treaty that calls for it to host...