Occupational First Aid

Occupational first aid training: Decay in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills

One hundred and twenty four occupational first aiders were tested on their ability to carry out cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) at varying times following training (up to three years). Expert assessment of printouts from a Recording Resusci-Anne manikin indicated that only 12 per cent of those tested would be capable of carrying out effective CPR, Measures derived from the same printouts sh...

First Aid

due to a nearby vacuum cleaner or a passing tramear. You will find that these devices will not help you when you are confronted with disease far from the resources of a modern hospital. The only thing that matters is whether or not you have taken heed to the lesson first taught in the Eastern Mediterranean over two thousand years ago, repeated again by the old Cromwellian captain-"the trooper t...

Chromosome first aid.

Most people take the stability of chromosomes for granted. Some may imagine metaphase chromosomes lined up like a butterfly collection on a page, reassuringly in order and unchanging. However, evidence that has been accumulating for over half a century indicates that genome stability is a dynamic, not a static, process. In the 1940s natural chromosomes ends, or telomeres, were shown to be speci...

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Handbook of First Aid

HANDBOOK OF FIRST AID. By Arthur D. Belilios, M.B., B.S., Desmond K. Mulvany, M.S., F.R.CS., Katherine F. Armstrong, S.R.N., S.C.M. (Pp. 482; figs. 195. 12s. 6d.) London: Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, 1962. THE last edition of this book was in 1955. The chapter on Shock and Resuscitation has been rewritten, and a new chapter on First Aid and Nuclear Warfare added. Other items have been revised and ...