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Bayne took full advantage of the new technology that Sunday morning in Point Loma. Although he could not feel a pulse at his patient's wrist, he was able to determine that it had fallen from a normal 80 beats a minute to 38 by placing a digital pulse monitor the size of a lemon on the woman's finger. He then touched her chest with a portable EKG machine and analyzed her cardiac rhythms. Had there been any indication that she was suffering a heart attack, Bayne would immediately have called 911. When he determined that wasn...
...sooner said than done: from the woman's wrist the doctor drew a sample, injected it into a tiny cassette and snapped it into a hand-held blood analyzer. Within two minutes, all readings came up normal. There was no sign of dehydration, anemia, insulin shock or kidney failure. "In a standard emergency room, it would have taken me 30 minutes to an hour to get those test results," Bayne says...
...first-year suffered minor injuries and a possible fractured wrist after being struck by a commuter bus at the intersection of JFK Street and Memorial Drive at 6:10 a.m. yesterday...
While doctors found no broken bones, she said she may have broken her wrist...
...jump. Buck went back to the barn with no bridle. And I landed straight on my head because my hands were entangled in the bridle and I couldn't get an arm free to stop my fall. Had I done that, I'd be looking at a sprained wrist. I was heard to say, 'I can't breathe.' And that...