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After reading the two letters regarding hotel fire safety [March 16], I believe the general public may have some misunderstanding of the subject. A "simple gas mask" would not provide oxygen or protection against carbon monoxide. And a plastic hose would surely not be a shield against fire roaring down a hallway at 2000° F. What is needed is the adoption of tougher building-and fire-code standards. Until then we will continue to have more fires and more deaths...
...bend over and run, Hinckley late last week was flown to an Army post near Washington. There he was transferred to a limousine and brought in handcuffs to a federal courtroom under security so tight that even the clerk of court had to show identification. A paramedic with an oxygen tank sat behind Hinckley in the courtroom. A court-appointed psychiatrist, Dr. James L. Evans, testified that his three-hour examination of Hinckley showed he was "mentally competent to stand trial." District Court Chief Judge William B. Bryant ordered that the suspect be examined further to establish...
Brady lost consciousness as he was lifted onto a stretcher and placed into the ambulance with an oxygen mask clamped to his face. Two more ambulances, their sirens wailing, arrived to take Agent McCarthy and Patrolman Delahanty to separate hospitals...
...George Washington University Hospital's emergency unit, a hastily assembled team of more than a dozen doctors plus paramedics, nurses and aides swung into action. Seemingly in disorganized fashion, but actually with speed and precision, they moved toward one goal: stabilizing the patient as quickly as possible. Oxygen was administered to aid the President in breathing, and fluids were given intravenously to raise his blood pressure. A reading indicated that the systolic pressure (when the heart contracts) had dropped below 100, alarmingly low. Simultaneously, his clothing was cut away; as soon as the jacket and shirt were...
That done, the trauma team could proceed more deliberately. X rays of the chest and abdomen were taken to try to lo cate the bullet; blood samples were analyzed for gases to help determine how much oxygen was getting into the blood. To see whether there was bleeding in the abdominal cavity as well, the team performed a procedure known as peritoneal lavage. Surgeons Benjamin Aaron and Joseph Giordano, who headed up the trauma team, made a small incision just below the President's navel, inserted a tube and infused several liters of fluid, filling the abdominal cavity. Then...