The paramedics called to attend to an individual not breathing at Vancouver jail arrived to see the woman lying on her back on the pavement surrounded by several jail and medical staff but not treating her. Right intervention During the inquest, Rodrick MacKenzie, lawyer for the Coroner’s Service of B.C., asked paramedic Mike Burgwin if […]
Individuals suffering a cardiac arrest in public are likely to be given CPR from bystanders in the city’s ethnic Chinese neighborhoods according to the latest research from University of British Columbia. When CPR is needed The chances of survival once the heart ceases to beat without neurological damage is high when it occurs within 2.7
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An elderly couple worries for the life of their son after the family hardly escapes a house fire overnight. The fire broke out at Vince Shoemaker’s wood frame house on 116 Avenue and 140 Street where the family lived since 1954. The shoemaker had to drag his 83-year old wife up to the door as
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A 13-year old girl was brought to the Alberta Children’s Hospital after struck by a vehicle in Langdon. According to the EMS, the vehicle that struck the girl left the scene. The teenager was flown to the healthcare facility by STARS Air Ambulance in a severe but stable condition with a possibility for a head
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