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...year-old girl screamed in agony as the E.R. technician carried her out of the ambulance. Her arms and legs were fractured, her spleen and lungs damaged. Rawand Ratrout, a Palestinian anesthesiologist, inserted intravenous drips into the girl's smoke-blackened arm. She ordered a nurse to inject the patient with a muscle relaxant while the technician, Mohammed Assaly, checked the girl's ventilator, careful not to touch her face, which was burned raw and bloody. "I always imagine what would happen if I were this victim," says Ratrout. In this case, that required more imagination than usual. The young...
...says. Assaly's mother, who was with him then, tells him to keep a low profile around the hospital after a terrorist attack. "When people behave like that because I am an Arab, it makes me mad," he says. "But I don't think about the nationality of the patient...
Paxil, one of the world's most widely prescribed antidepressants, should not be given to any patient under age 18 suffering major depression, according to a British government report. The decision was based on research by the drug's manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, which found that youngsters taking Paxil (sold in Britain and elsewhere as Seroxat) experienced a higher incidence of suicidal thoughts than did patients taking a placebo. The FDA is reviewing the data under political pressure to issue its own recommendations. Untreated depression too often leads to suicide, the third most common cause of death among adolescents, but doctors...
...outbreak in which more than 100 infections have been traced to the fourth floor of Toronto's North York General Hospital. Last week, officials were also investigating whether a U.S. man who visited a home for the elderly in Toronto in mid-May could have contracted SARS from a patient who was not showing symptoms at the time. Doctors say the chance of asymptomatic transmission is slim, but the possibility is worrying. "That changes the picture considerably because the whole basis for believing that you can put SARS back in the box is based on the fact that...
...engineer, now well and back at work, is among the thousands of Americans who have been rescued by AEDs. For years defibrillators were used only by doctors, like the ones on ER who yell "Clear!" before they shock a patient. But the new automated variety can be used by almost anyone. The devices have spread to all sorts of public places, and their U.S. sales, already worth $200 million, are growing at about 30% a year. The engineer probably didn't much care that the AED used on him was made by a little company now called Cardiac Science...