Word: victimizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next step was to combine mouth-to-mouth resuscitation with external heart massage. A Johns Hopkins team did this in 1959, when it devised a system in which one rescuer does the mouth-to-mouth work while another puts his hands on the lower part of the victim's breastbone and presses down smartly, 60 to 80 times a minute, to restart the heart. All Baltimore fire and emergency crews use this method, and it has saved many lives...
Mouth to Mouth. The Heart-Lung Resuscitator, or HLR, which doctors have dubbed "the Thumper," works on the twin principles that a person whose heart stops must have both his breathing and his circulation restored. Most older methods of resuscitation, such as medieval flagellation or jackknifing the victim over a fence, have been barbarous and useless. Others have been of limited value because they concentrated on only one phase of the problem: breathing. Even the best of these methods, mouth-to-mouth breathing, went out of fashion in the Victorian era because it seemed not quite nice, and it took...
...chest (see cut). Powered entirely by compressed oxygen (small tanks in portable units, bigger ones in hospitals), the HLR supplies a puff of oxygen twelve times a minute through a face mask, while the plunger, which replaces the rescuer's hands, bounces up and down on the victim's breastbone 60 times a minute. On the downstroke it compresses the chest and squeezes the heart against the spine, forcing blood out. The heart relaxes and refills on the upstroke...
Ideally, the victim of sudden heart arrest should get immediate mouth-to-mouth breathing by one rescuer and simultaneous chest massage by another, until the Thumper arrives, to do both jobs precisely and tirelessly all the way to a hospital. Within hospitals themselves, HLRs are expected to be useful in emergency rooms and intensive-care units, where seriously ill patients are especially subject to heart stoppage...
...stress of modern life, more and more parents apparently vent anger and frustration on the easiest targets at hand. But while it is relatively easy to recognize a case of child beating, it is relatively difficult to nab the child beaters. They invariably deny responsibility, often take the victim to a different doctor after each successive beating. Since the infant can rarely speak for himself, the parental denial reinforces a doctor's natural hesitation to consider beating as the cause of injury. To make matters worse, doctors fear being sued for slander if they tip off the police...