Re: Typing in microgravity -- extra effort? How about CPR?

"Sheerluck" <sheerluckholmes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On a more serious note , how about doing CPR during an emergency in
space?

G. Harry Stine (under the pen name Lee Correy) wrote a SF story named
"Space 
Doctor" which had to deal with issues like this.  It was set in a
near-term 
future where there was an enormous construction platform in LEO for the 
construction of SPS.  There were several hundred construction workers, so
it 
was realized that they needed a full-up hospital and not just a sick bay,
so 
the central character of the story was charged with setting up the first
0-G 
hospital.

I think there was one scene where they hustled a guy into a storage locker

so they could get the bracing needed to perform CPR on him.

Another solution to a pesky problem was placing rubber bands around IV
bags, 
which wouldn't drip without gravity.

http://www.amazon.com/Space-Doctor-Harry-Correy-Stine/dp/B000MPBHNM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203101486&sr=8-1

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Regards,
Mike Combs
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