Word: transporters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...garden hose connected to an auto exhaust pipe. Within minutes, nine paramedics and fire fighters aboard two pumper trucks, a battalion fire chief in a Ford Bronco and a pair of medics from a private ambulance company had converged on the scene to administer oxygen to the woman and transport her to a hospital. Across this Denver suburb, a variety of rescue scenes were being repeated in similar all-hands fashion. Boasts fire chief Ray Barnes: "When lives are at stake, we want the fullest emergency response possible...
Lifesaving heroics get the headlines, but there is real money to be made, particularly in the transport of a growing legion of elderly to and from hospitals, nursing homes, HMOS and other facilities, either in ambulances or in specialized vehicles known as ambulettes. It's one of the unintended consequences--and opportunities--of health-care reform: hospitals are discharging patients earlier, while others need to be shifted more frequently between care centers, boosting the need for transportation...
...experimental compounds blocked dopamine transport in experiments with cell cultures, according to the study...
Texaco has drilled several exploration wells in Burma's Gulf of Martaban and is planning a pipeline project to transport natural gas from the gulf across Burma into Thailand. Other oil companies--Unocal and the French company Total--are currently constructing a pipeline in the same area, and although Texaco will probably construct a new pipeline, it will run a similar route and use much of the infrastructure of the Total-Unocal project...
Doctors tissue-typed Cheyenne while she was still in the womb, placed her on a heart-transplant waiting list and put a team of surgeons, nurses and transport coordinators on call. Ten days later, during the 36th week of gestation, word arrived that a baby had died during or shortly after birth and the parents had agreed to donate the infant's heart...