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...blood agent, which means it poisons cells by preventing them from being able to utilize oxygen carried in the blood. Exposure leads to dizziness, nausea, weakness, loss of consciousness and convulsions. Breathing stops and death follows. (Since blood agents are carried through the respiratory system, a gas mask is the only protection needed. If one is exposed to blood agents, amyl nitrite provides an antidote, if administered quickly enough.) (See surprising assets on the CIA payroll...
...show how we panted. A 10-sec. synopsis of the patient's situation would come from a nurse or medical resident while we took our places. I was amazed how natural this behavior seemed, unrehearsed, undirected but seamlessly coordinated: Somebody pumping the chest; somebody bagging (holding a mask over the patient's face and squeezing the bag that forced air into the lungs); somebody reading the continuous EKG strip and calling out meds; the nurses getting, giving and recording the drugs; the medical students and younger residents drawing bloods from veins and arteries, labeling, packaging and running them...
...Being plopped onto a piece of plywood, having your clothes ripped off, a two hundred pound man driving the heels of his hands into the center of your chest while others poke needles into your limbs and groin, another squeezes a rubber mask over your face and another prepares to send four hundred watt-seconds of electricity across your body is a noxious stimulus, however you slice...
...Displeasure showed on her face. I had been pushed out of the way by senior residents within a minute. They had her well-ventilated with the mask and "lined up" (all the IV's inserted, fluid pouring into her circulation to increase her dangerously low blood pressure). Same for the old man on whom she had passed...
...these more minor policy shifts mask what will amount to the first decrease in overall federal education spending in a decade. To be sure, the Bush administration is not alone in these misdeeds; Democrats and Republicans alike have stood by as the education of U.S. youth has become a singularly lagging priority in federal planning. Ma and Pa America seem all too willing these days to forget its children, all too willing to forget the importance of education, which has always been the the great equalizer of our society, allowing people from different backgrounds to better themselves and to improve...