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Cardiac Arrest: Description of a Portable Resuscitator

Cardiac Arrest: Description of a Portable Resuscitator Family Practice Vol. 1,No.4 © Oxford University Press 1984 Printed in Great Britain Cardiac Arrest: Description of a Portable Resuscitator HANNS PACY In the last 15 years more and more Australian graduates have taken up general practice in remote townships which have no hospital facilities but are popular with tourists and retired people. One of the problems of being far from the nearest intensive care unit is management of cardiac arrest. Often the doctor can arrive in time to commence cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). But he has only one pair of hands, there may be no one about, the nearest telephone may be three houses away or the car with the radio may be parked in a 'dead spot'. In this situation he cannot prepare injections or find and prepare a vein. There have been at least two occasions in the past in the author's practice where a patient has died because of the lack of 'hands'. The 'Heart Aid ALS 95>a is a portable battery- powered automatic cardiac resuscitator which is FIGURE 1 The portable resuscitator in use. A medical student ideal for these situations (Figure 1). attached to the practice rehearses the cardiac arrest procedure with an at-risk http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Family Practice Oxford University Press

Cardiac Arrest: Description of a Portable Resuscitator

Pacy, Hanns
Family Practice , Volume 1 (4) – Dec 1, 1984
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Family Practice Vol. 1,No.4 © Oxford University Press 1984 Printed in Great Britain Cardiac Arrest: Description of a Portable Resuscitator HANNS PACY In the last 15 years more and more Australian graduates have taken up general practice in remote townships which have no hospital facilities but are popular with tourists and retired people. One of the problems of being far from the nearest intensive care unit is management of cardiac arrest. Often the doctor can arrive in time to commence cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). But he has only one pair of hands, there may be no one about, the nearest telephone may be three houses away or the car with the radio may be parked in a 'dead spot'. In this situation he cannot prepare injections or find and prepare a vein. There have been at least two occasions in the past in the author's practice where a patient has died because of the lack of 'hands'. The 'Heart Aid ALS 95>a is a portable battery- powered automatic cardiac resuscitator which is FIGURE 1 The portable resuscitator in use. A medical student ideal for these situations (Figure 1). attached to the practice rehearses the cardiac arrest procedure with an at-risk

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Family Practice – Oxford University Press

Published: Dec 1, 1984

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