X-Message-Number: 26970 Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 11:22:04 +0200 From: Eugen Leitl <> Subject: [: [>Htech] googlealert (robot): robot CPR deployed in ambulances] --FExg54TfB5FsLGss Content-Disposition: inline ----- Forwarded message from Alejandro Dubrovsky <> ----- From: Alejandro Dubrovsky <> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:15:20 +1000 To: transhumantech <> Subject: [>Htech] googlealert (robot): robot CPR deployed in ambulances X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Reply-To: ( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=361594&in_page_id=1774&in_a_source= ) The robot resuscitator by JENNY HOPE, Daily Mail 10:38am 7th September 2005 Health channel RSS feed What is RSS? Automatic CPR machine Rise of the robot: But this one could save lives enlarge An Automatic resuscitator that gives life-saving treatment to heart attack victims has been developed. The mechanical device delivers consistent, sustained chest compressions that help restore the blood flow to the heart. It helps ambulance paramedics by taking over the physical hands-on work of CPR - the Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation familiar to viewers of Casualty and ER - leaving them free to provide other treatments. Staffordshire Ambulance NHS Trust has become the first to fully equip around 100 ambulances and fast response cars with the device. In only 20 seconds, the machine can be ready to perform compressions on a sick patient, which maximises their chances of survival. Almost 260,000 Britons have a heart attack each year and in about 30 per cent of cases the patient dies before reaching hospital. The first few minutes after an attack are crucial. If the heart stops and does not start beating again instantly, the heart and the brain will be damaged because of lack of oxygen. Within 20 minutes, there is no chance of successful revival. In manual CPR, a paramedic uses their hands to compress a patient's chest regularly to retain some circulation before a defibrillator shocks the heart back to a normal rhythm. With a portable chest compressor, paramedics can lift the patient on to a back plate, strap on the chest pump and flick a switch to start 100 compressions a minute. Saving lives It can be used on the ground, in a bed or on a stretcher in the ambulance while it is moving. The ?6,000 device - known as the LUCAS CPR system - is powered by compressed oxygen or air and can keep going as long as is necessary. Professor Douglas Chamberlain, who works in resuscitation medicine at Cardiff University, said there were some "remarkable cases" in which the machine had "very likely" saved lives. He said: "In these cases resuscitation attempts have continued for over an hour and the patient was dependent on the LUCAS for any sort of blood flow while coronary arteries were unblocked. "It's extremely unlikely that manual compression could have been kept up for so long, or during transportation in an ambulance and into the hospital. "Manual CPR is not easy. It's often done too slowly or too quickly. When delivered with the right level of force, it can injure the rescuer." A new clot-dissolving drug is saving more lives than existing treatment and costs less, researchers claim. A study shows it cuts death rates by 17 per cent among those admitted to hospital with mild heart attacks and angina. Such patients are prone to life-threatening bleeds but the drug, called fondaparinux, halves the number of bleeds and is safer than current therapy. Specialists said it was a major advance. Maker GlaxoSmithKline hopes to get the drug approved for heart patients within a year. This story first appeared in the . For more great stories like this, buy the Daily Mail every day. Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/PMYolB/TM Post message: Subscribe: Unsubscribe: List owner: List home: http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/transhumantech/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transhumantech/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --FExg54TfB5FsLGss Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDIAK7dbAkQ4sp9r4RAq48AJ9jU+a85B54jNeNmRTKkTQr6M5wzwCfdfXm GSmi3WFkdocX2OiKsE2NplY=iLgC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FExg54TfB5FsLGss-- Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26970