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Article: CPR UNDER FIRE PATIENT'S CHANCE AT LIFE DISPUTED
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- February 7, 1988
CopyrightCopyright, 1988, Post-Tribune. All rights reserved. REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED. (Hide copyright information)
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DRAING (ILLUSTRATION BY JOE SORIA)
THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION.
Ateam of doctors and nurses hurtling a medical cart down a hospital hallway. Paddles poised above an unconscious patient's chest. The crisp warning, "Clear!" The patient's body fairly leaping off the bed.
A moment of suspense. Followed, almost inevitably, by a heart monitor's steady beep-beep, indicating the return of life.
The image of a successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation - and one of the few seemingly simple medical triumphs the lay person can savor.
But CPR as a medical technique capable of giving critically ill hospitalized patients a second chance at life is, by and large, a ...