Part 15: First Aid

Part 15: First Aid: 2015 American Heart Association and American Red Cross Guidelines Update for First Aid.

Part 17: first aid: 2010 American Heart Association and American Red Cross Guidelines for First Aid.

The American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Red Cross (Red Cross) cofounded the National First Aid Science Advisory Board to review and evaluate the scientific literature on first aid in preparation for the 2005 American Heart Association (AHA) and American Red Cross Guidelines for First Aid.1 In preparation for the 2010 evidence evaluation process, the National First Aid Advisory Boa...

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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