Keyword: cpr
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ROCHESTER, Minn. -- By all counts, the 54-year-old man who collapsed on a recent winter night in rural Minnesota would likely have died. He'd suffered a heart attack, and even though he was given continuous CPR and a series of shocks with a defibrillator, the man was without a pulse for 96 minutes. But this particular instance of cardiac arrest (http://www.mayoclinic.org/heart-attack/), reported first in Mayo Clinic Proceedings (http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com) online, turned out to be highly unusual: "The patient made a complete recovery following prolonged pulselessness," says anesthesiologist and cardiac care specialist Roger White, M.D. (http://www.mayoclinic.org/bio/10114106.html), lead author of the article. Emergency...
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I'll soon be launching a survey of all my readers and other gun owner-Americans around the nation. Readers of my Newsletter will receive the Survey this week and others need to give their permission if they would care to take the survey by opting in to the Newsletter. Years ago, I formulated an identity of purpose between the armed citizen and citizen CPR training. I don't know how many gun owners know CPR as part of their preparedness plan, so I thought I'd ask. While I'm at it, I'll be asking a few other questions as germane to the second...
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The House just voted 236-181 to remove federal funding for National Public Radio via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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A Florida man shot at an alligator to free his dog from its jaws. Tom Martino said he and his Jack Russell terrier Lizabeth were walking along the Hillsborough River in Tampa when the alligator wrestled the 15-pound dog into the water. Martino started shooting into the water around the alligator to scare it into releasing the 9-year-old dog. He performed CPR on the dog until it coughed up water and started breathing again. Lizabeth was being treated for alligator bites and lung injuries from being underwater. A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission trapper captured the 5- to 6-foot...
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(CNN) -- It was 5:16 a.m. when the call came in to a 911 dispatcher in Madison, Wisconsin. The story, from Cathy Silver, came out staccato: Cathy's husband, Jim, was gagging, gasping for air. A nurse at the University of Wisconsin Hospital, Cathy could see that her husband, the father of four grown children, was in cardiac arrest. Though trained in CPR, Cathy was flustered. "I can't do the breaths!" she shouted. Nevermind, said the dispatcher. Get over him, press on his the chest, circulate the blood. Help would be there soon. Four minutes later, a Madison police officer arrived...
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DALLAS — New guidelines out Monday switch up the steps for CPR, telling rescuers to start with hard, fast chest presses before giving mouth-to-mouth. The change puts "the simplest step first" for traditional CPR, said Dr. Michael Sayre, co-author of the guidelines issued by the American Heart Association. In recent years, CPR guidance has been revised to put more emphasis on chest pushes for sudden cardiac arrest. In 2008, the heart group said untrained bystanders or those unwilling to do rescue breaths could do hands-only CPR until paramedics arrive or a defibrillator is used to restore a normal heart beat.
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Here is a video report on a man who collapsed during President Obama’s speech at a High School Graduation in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The older man apparently went into cardiac arrest as the President was speaking. Michigan State Senator Tom George was in the audience and said the man “was not breathing and he was pulse-less” when he got to him. George and others initiated CPR until paramedics were able to take the man to the hospital. He is reportedly “responding to treatment.”
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I thought this was worth passing around. The only question I had was, I think they said no need to check for pulse. I have an issue with that one, what if they just passed out? Other than that this is good and everyone should see it. Link to Mayo's new CPR method
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This is an excellent video regarding an updated and more effective version of CPR that doesn't require blowing in someone's mouth. Pass it on.
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LA CENTER, Wash. - A newborn piglet cheats death, thanks to a quick-thinking farmer and a nurturing dog in Washington State. Meet Pig Pig, a young female piglet who would rather run with the dogs than play with her own species. "She just doesn't even have any interest," said farmer Heidi Olson. After all she was raised by a red heeler after her own mom died after giving birth. "The only problem is now the pig thinks she's a dog," said Olson. Heidi Olson says Pig Pig's amazing story almost ended just two days after she was born. As the...
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Man Survives 47 Minutes in Cardiac Arrest Doctors Wouldn't Give Up on N.Y. Man, Delivering 4,500 Chest Compressions and 8 Defibrillator Shocks to Save Him (WCBS) What happens if your heart stops beating? Is it possible to survive? CBS station WCBS in New York recently met a Brooklyn man who lived after his heart quit for 47 minutes, and it's all thanks to a team of doctors who refused to give up until they brought him back from the dead. "These doctors did not stop," Joe Tiralosi said, fighting through tears to find the words to describe his experience....
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There's no doubt about the love we have for our dogs and cats. But, when push comes to shove, just how far would you go if your best friend was in a health crisis? Let's get to the point. Your pet is injured and needs lifesaving air.Question is, could you bring yourself to put your mouth to his snout? 58-percent of people surveyed by the Associated Press and Petside.com would be at least SOMEWHAT likely to perform CPR on their animal in a medical emergency. The survey showed women were more likely to deliver those rescue breaths than the men....
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Here is video of CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta showing actor Matthew McConaughey what he calls a "new way" of doing CPR. Gupta says new studies show that doing chest compressions only on a cardiac arrest patient is just as effective - if not better - than if mouth-to-mouth is also done. Gupta said you have "8-10 minutes of oxygenated blood" in your body anyway, and the key is to keep that blood moving. So, according to Gupta, it is better to not interrupt the chest compressions for anything while you wait for paramedics to arrive. He also said more people...
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Sonia Sotomayor was one of three appeals court judges who ruled that New Haven, Conn. officials acted properly in throwing out firefighters' exams because of racially skewed results. The city decided not to use test scores to determine promotions b/c it might have been vulnerable to claims the exam had a "disparate impact" on minorities in violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Sotomayor's opinion has been criticized as a cursory look at a tough issue. Among critics are Soto's fellow judges on NY's 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals.... outcome could alter how public and private sector employers make...
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When EMTs arrived at Michael Jackson's home yesterday, the medics wanted to pronounce him dead on the scene -- but Michael's personal doctor refused to let them "call it" -- this according to sources close to the situation. When EMTs arrived there was evidence someone had been performing CPR on Michael for "quite some time." There was evidence of Lidocaine -- an old-school drug that can be used to treat disturbances in the heart's rhythm. Medics took over performing CPR but determined Jackson was lifeless -- and wanted to call the coroner to pick up the body. We're told Jackson...
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Free Health Care Shortages by: Deidre Almstead, June 16, 2009 Katie Brickell’s new life as a twenty-five-year old newly-wed was all but completely halted when she discovered she had cervical cancer, with only a few years left to live. Her hope for survival was placed in receiving cancer treatments through the United Kingdom’s government-run health care system. Katie claims that her cancer could have been prevented or at least identified at an earlier stage had she been allowed a pap-smear, a common screening test for cervical cancer. Now all Katie can do is to continue to fight for the health...
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BOSTON (AP) ― Beacon Hill lawmakers are weighing bills to beef up CPR-requirements at schools and require heart tests for student athletes. The Committee on Education will hold a public hearing at the State House on Tuesday to look at more than a dozen proposals, including a bill that would require all students to be taught cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Another bill would require coaches to have a CPR certificate and know how to use heart defibrillators. A third would force students who want to participate in interscholastic athletic programs to undergo an electrocardiogram first.
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While politicians debate whether this week's rejection of various spending initiatives in California marks the beginning of an antitax insurgency, I can't help but wonder what might have been had Arnold Schwarzenegger immediately pushed for reform upon taking office in 2003. The Arnold of the state's recall election was the Barack Obama of the 2008 presidential election. He was a man of wealth and privilege, restyled as a populist outsider and overhyped by a fawning media, who came into office with a window of opportunity to achieve most anything his heart desired. For Mr. Schwarzenegger, that window remained open for...
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Boone County - A toddler survived life-threatening moments because adults jumped into action with just seconds to spare. It happened at a rural home west of I-65, near County Road 550 South in Boone County. The scene went from quiet to chaos in a matter of minutes when two-year-old Evan Pitcher nearly drowned in the family pool. "Nothing could ever prepare you for seeing your own flesh and blood sitting there floating in a pool," said Eric Pitcher, Evan's father. Evan and his father were playing outside when dad went in the garage to get a broom. He was gone...
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U.S. doctors have found the Bee Gees 1977 disco anthem "Stayin' Alive" provides an ideal beat to follow while performing chest compressions as part of CPR on a heart attack victim.
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