In article <47b572e1$0$32673$afc38c87@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Sheerluck
wrote:
> On a more serious note , how about doing CPR during an emergency in
space?
>
Scuba diving training (at least in the UK, 20 years ago. No, 24
years
ago.) includes as a standard part, how to do CPR on your buddy once you've
got him/her/it to the surface. While it's not true zero-g, it's a good
enough approximation.
Try it. Get old "Recusitation Annie" into her bikini and throw her
into the pool at the deep end. Wayne's idea of a ball and straps is over-
complicated - you can do the chest compressions with nothing more than
arms
(but it does take practice ; which is why we were *required* to practice
it). The other take-home lesson from the training is that it's a damned
sight easier to get a seal if you do mouth-to-nose rather than mouth-to-
mouth.
What the training didn't tell me, was that when someone under
resuscitation vomits, it generally comes out of their mouth, not their
nose.
And of course, *you* don't have any option yourself but to spit it out and
carry on. At that point, M2N has some really obvious attractions.
--
Aidan Karley,
Aberdeen, Scotland
Written at Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:56 GMT, but posted later.
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